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  "title": "Go-To Patterns with TOMMASO",
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      "text": "you know everything is just muscle memory so it's like to a kid it sounds like a lot of times i'm like okay now go home and play this like a hundred times but like a hundred times is really like nothing you know Yeah. like you can do that in like 20 minutes and like you'll never have a problem with it ever again",
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      "text": "What's good, everybody? Just had a great conversation with Tommaso, incredible producer, songwriter, artist, drummer, mix engineer, guitarist, all of the things, and most importantly, a great friend collaborator. I really love his music. I'd recommend actually take a little listen to his music before we hop into this conversation so you can catch the vibes at Tommaso, T-O-M-M-A-S-O.",
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      "text": "Before we get into the podcast, I also want to introduce our title sponsor, DistroKid. DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists get to keep 100% of their royalties and earnings. A million plus artists rely on DistroKid to get their music onto Spotify.",
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    {
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      "text": "On the Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TikTok, Tidal, Instagram, and all of the major streaming services, you can sign up today with our code for 30% off if you go to DistroKid.com slash VIP slash love music more, all one word, to get started today. Hope you enjoy the episode. What's good, everybody? Welcome back to Love Music More. I am Scoobert Doobert and I am joined with my good friend Tommaso. What's up, man?",
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      "text": "How's it going?",
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      "text": "So,",
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      "text": "Happy",
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      "text": "dude,",
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      "text": "to be",
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      "text": "we've",
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      "text": "here at",
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    {
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      "text": "been, how long have we known each other? It's been at least three or four years, right?",
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      "text": "least 2022 maybe something",
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      "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.",
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      "text": "like that maybe before",
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      "text": "Yeah. So Tommaso makes incredible music, very much in the same genre as the music that I make. And we've worked together on collaborations, mixing things, just been buddies hung out in Chicago. And so I'm so excited to have you on the pod and talk about your production, your drumming, your music career, your solo project.",
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      "text": "Thanks so much. Thanks for the kind words, man. I'm a big fan of your work as well. So no,",
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      "text": "So let's dive into it. So I'm super curious about how your journey informs your productions. So as a drummer and then moving into the production world and moving into the mixing world, do you feel like all of this is kind of connected or do you feel like they're different hats?",
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      "text": "they're definitely informed. greatly and they're they're all very related I think the reason why I like producing is because for the longest time as a drummer I didn't get a say into like what the music was you know",
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      "text": "like i got i got a say in like the energy maybe just knew like oh i like this song but i don't like this song as much during like my gigs or my bands you know and like and so with producing and now that i've learned other instruments as well because this was like way back when in like high school and like early college days",
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      "text": "uh when i pretty much only knew how to play drums and i knew very little like music theory but i think that i come from it from like a yeah kind of from like an energy standpoint and i think about like how is the song moving forward yeah i don't know if that answers the question so it's drumming production and mixing yeah too all all kind of mixing and production are kind of like a blurred line for me at this point i would say that coming from a drumming background background",
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      "text": "definitely influences my production and I'm grateful for it.",
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      "text": "Yeah, yeah, I'm really interested by that because there have been a lot of great drummers turned producers, and I have a few theories, so that's one of them.",
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      "text": "Yeah.",
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      "text": "is that I think the drummers are great at understanding like energy and the movement and the groove of the song and like everything like a compressor like the way that the you know audio is is hitting something and the dynamics are pulsing feels like a drummer can have a really good intuition about like how to make that work but I also think that there's something about drums just being such a wide frequency instrument",
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      "text": "Hmm.",
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      "text": "you're like you're the whole spectrum and so i feel like i feel like that's a special thing when you know guitarists were kind of like in our own little space but to get a great drum",
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      "text": "Sure.",
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      "text": "sound you got to really think top to bottom",
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      "text": "Yeah, I remember in high school, I was the drummer of like my band, which was just me and my friends basically, because I remember specifically feeling like I know how the snare drum needed to be hit.",
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      "text": "and I didn't trust anyone else to hit it in that way you know and I think I like identified that like the snare is so important and just like the feeling and like the nuance was so important that I just didn't trust anyone else to like to do it you know I've had these moments so many times even like more recently where even in recent shows I'm just like I have these moments where I'm like I am such a drummer like this is totally my instrument even though I love producing and like I can fake guitar pretty well or",
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      "text": "you know in the at least a little bit and like uh producing but when it comes to like shows and stuff I just love I understand I feel like the what I'm what I'm doing you know I don't think I could do any other instrument as well as I can that one if that makes sense",
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      "text": "yeah totally makes sense it totally makes sense and it's a funny thing too like yeah The details of drums, like yeah swapping out a snare drum the way you hit the snare drum the heads the mic placement There's just so many decisions that yeah go in to make that sound good",
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      "text": "yeah and i'm really big into like kick pattern you know so like yeah it comes down to like what is the most obvious thing sometimes you know and this is kind of drumming but also it's the same brain for me it's like what's the most obvious",
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      "text": "obvious part to make it kind of like the most pop and I say that in like quotations because it's not like Ariana Grande pop but like kind of just like for the masses you know like what is the best sort of like not showy and like for the song kind of part yeah but no for sure I I love I love Thinking about the kick pattern and like how the the snare how to hit the snare and yeah all that kind of stuff",
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      "text": "plan a lot of their kick pattern based on like the melody and then the bass will fit in there too how do you",
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      "text": "go okay",
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      "text": "about that or do you like kind of like thinking of a groove and you write to the groove",
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      "text": "no i don't usually write to the groove necessarily but so i do like a fair amount of drum sessions too and what i do if i do it at home session i feel comfortable i can like take my time what my strategy is is i just play the song like",
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      "text": "too many times like a ton of times like 20 times record all of them but then I comp between the last like two or three takes you know because like",
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      "text": "every time I understand the song just like a little bit more and in the first couple takes I might not even know like what the structure is exactly I just like",
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      "text": "and then maybe I'll stop and like listen back to like a certain fill or something but I really just like every take it's more and more like calculated and precise for better for worse you know like sometimes it's nice to just kind of wing it and there's some magic in there but",
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      "text": "yeah I think usually my approach is like I guess depends on the genre but usually it's kind of like indie or like singer-songwriter-y or like rock stuff sort of like some pop sensibilities to them and so like it's usually pretty",
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      "text": "pretty calculated even the fill like it'll be the it'll end up being the simplest fill in the world but like I'm always like there is like the best fill you know that could do in this moment and it's usually some kind of like Ringo-y like thing",
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      "text": "but uh you know what I mean that's kind of how I approach like drum sessions and kind of writing drum parts yeah I don't have much else to say about about that I kind of just wing it you know I don't really like have a specific Thing that I do all the time,",
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      "text": "yeah well i think that what you're saying there is actually really cool about the recording as you learn the song i think that that's one of the like sneaky unlocks of digital recording and not caring too much about hard drive space and all that kind of stuff anymore is that you can and you can do that across a whole bunch of songs and then you can capture on the fly swampier just kind of figuring out the edges and then the very",
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      "text": "very precise you can count between them but the other thing that I think is really cool is it also kind of forces you to be under the microscope like I always play my best when I'm recording but like have settled in a little bit or if I'm playing live and like you have to kind of raise your game and you are more focused than aware of it rather than kind of going through the motions and like kind of figuring it out pressing record having the red light I think can help you yeah",
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      "text": "Yeah, right, right. yeah i think it also ties into like arranging you",
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      "text": "know like a lot of the times when i'm producing for someone i uh we spend a lot of time on just like arrangement so like instead of like adding a bunch of layers for like the chorus for example just having everything",
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      "text": "change maybe like the guitar we add just like one string like before it was just like the bottom three strings or the top three strings and now we're just kind of having a more full sound or like a right and a left maybe they're doing something kind of more unison in the verse and then they kind of like open up in the chorus but",
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      "text": "much about drums that make it it's the focal point it's like the hardest and best thing of mixing anything is just getting the drum sound dialed and pushing",
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      "text": "then like and like the rest of the song i just like unmute and",
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      "text": "totally uh i have a friend a mixing engineer friend caleb harris who shout out caleb um he",
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      "text": "he told me something so long ago that was just like all the Drake fans or whatever what are they listening to they're listening to like how his vocals were and if the drums were slapping or not you know",
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      "text": "no and it's like it's no no shame it is it is what it is we're humans like we like cool grooves and we like the human voice and everything else is either like window dressing or taking the role of the human voice for a little bit like a guitar solo",
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      "text": "right right yeah usually if i make the i have this theory also where i'm like",
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      "text": "if the snare drum is a little bit brighter a little bit darker like it kind of changes the record whereas",
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      "text": "like if the guitar is a little brighter or darker it",
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      "text": "doesn't change very much you",
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      "text": "or so to speak so my favorite venues shubas has to be one of the top ones you can't not mention shubas obviously the salt shed is like",
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      "text": "All right, I'm going to interrupt this very important broadcast. What I'm asking for is for you to rate it five stars, share it with your friends. This is like the most important thing for this podcast to grow. So if you want to do this, you go into the podcast screen, right? You click on the dot dot dot on Spotify.",
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      "text": "can just like I belt",
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      "text": "and like yeah i'm like scared to belt i'm like scared of what's gonna happen you know i'm like yeah so that's how we met and you know um that's partially why maybe my project has been taking slightly a back seat in the last like just like few months really um just because we've been working on his stuff a lot",
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      "text": "and it's it feels good it's like the itch is uh is scratched if you will of",
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      "text": "well said it also points to like don't just do the thing always like like the easiest thing to do is just strip silence off it goes it's like but you never listened to it you did something without listening to it like how dare you like",
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      "text": "Right, right, right.",
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      "text": "low end scooping out low end can be the best can be a total trap it's",
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      "text": "right so Tommaso this show is called love music more and this segment is called love music why i'm excited to ask you this question Why do you love music?",
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      "text": "man that's such a difficult question i sometimes ask myself and i knew this was coming too and i didn't really prepare for it but and",
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      "text": "sometimes i just i genuinely ask myself sometimes i'm like do i love music because like",
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      "text": "I work on a lot of music all the time so like it's like I don't know if I chose music it's almost like it feels like music chose me and I know that sounds so cliche but it's like it's just always been part of my like consciousness like I can't even remember a time where like I wasn't into music my aunt said that when I was like a baby I had this like little",
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      "text": "It does. I've actually been waiting",
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      "text": "and then it's just like everyone loves music it's like no no shit it's like my uh sometimes I think that like what I do is so like selfish",
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      "text": "because all i do is just like hey guys check out what i made you know and everyone's like cool uh or as like my mom is like a doctor and she like actually saved lives today or whatever um but you know art you know art i'm not obviously art is important it's necessary for like the human experience and like we can't",
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      "text": "escape it but yeah I don't know what else to say I could talk about we could have started with this question and probably",
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      "text": "still be talking",
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      "text": "and so that's a little much like you can't can't come on that strong you know hey why do you love music i also wonder about like music used to be a very apprenticeship based like a different kind like would beethoven say that he loved music it's like he was music but",
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      "text": "Yeah.",
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      "text": "like do we i don't know i i find",
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      "text": "this that's very interesting",
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      "text": "a good question.",
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      "text": "it's like a vocation certainly but",
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    {
      "startSec": 3480.601211,
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      "text": "is it yeah",
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      "text": "or like martial arts maybe it's",
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      "text": "like do you love jiu-jitsu or whatever or like is this just like your way of i don't know if you're like really hardcore about it you know i genuinely think music chose me that i've been lucky enough to do it like essentially full-time if you include like the teaching stuff that",
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      "text": "i'm just lucky enough to do it every day and so just part of my everyday experience and it's my job I do feel like it chose me. I would have chosen it back.",
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      "text": "But yeah, I do ask myself if I love music sometimes or not, because I don't listen to sometimes I'm like, I need new music to listen to. And like, there's so many albums that, you know, take me out sometimes that I'm just like, do I even like music? Like what's going on?",
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      "text": "Ha, ha, ha, ha. Well,",
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      "text": "Um,",
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      "text": "but then again, exactly. this is love, right? It's got to, it's got seasons.",
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      "text": "Right.",
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      "text": "I'll ask you that again in like 10 years. Yes, We'll see if you yes, were like,",
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      "text": "I'll be back in 10 years. Maybe I'll have a more definitive answer. I'll have just a one liner.",
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      "text": "Exactly. I'll have more gray in my chin. So where can people listen to your music? Where can they connect with you?",
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      "text": "Sure. So my solo project is called Tommaso, T-O-M-M-A-S-O, all caps. That's my first name.",
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      "text": "I am Chan Fuze is my other project that's a C-H-A-N space Fuze F-U-Z-E and I have a playlist on Spotify called produced by Tommaso which is just pretty much all of it everything I've done in the last few years and probably the best place to connect is Instagram just send me a DM if you want to work together or just say hello and yeah it's probably the best that's that's it awesome",
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      "text": "Hell yeah, man. Well, thank you so much for hopping on the pod. This is a super fun combo.",
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      "text": "yeah thank you so much this is great",
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