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hey my name is Sarah and you’re watching

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growing up my parents did not want me to

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play the drums they did not want me to

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be a musician because they said you’re

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gonna be starving you’re gonna be on the

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streets you’re a girl you’re gonna be

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roaming at nighttime carrying your drums

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no one’s gonna help you no one cares

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about drummers if you wanna make money

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you have to be a singer and you have to

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be a pianist so I took piano lessons and

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singing lessons for about 10 to 15 years

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which I’m very grateful for now but not

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back at that time so they told me try

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and become a brand for yourself as a

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drummer if you want to be a drummer so I

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started posting up a bunch of YouTube

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covers growing up in my teens which gave

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me a lot of recognition with ar-rahman

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some zoom on Vishal Dadlani a bunch of

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other people in Indian music we have a

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towel which is like a rhythmic cycle

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called the Kara Kara is an 8 week cycle

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and it’s played on door lock table and

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it’s kind of like this that’s the rhythm

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so a lot of these rhythms are played on

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traditional percussion Indian folk

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percussion instruments but I’d love to

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adapt that stuff on the drum set with

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non-indians and see how they interpret

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it so I thought let’s have a good time

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play this groove on the drums have a

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Colombian traditional instrument have

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some head movements and just have a vibe

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and have a good time a lot of people

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think oh these old Indian rhythms are so

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boring in their from for old people so I

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call this song hashtag the care walk

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groove so it’s trying to bring these

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rhythms to life

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I love humor I love fun in music I have

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this vision in my mind that when I’m

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playing music my grandma sitting in the

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audience and how does she connect with

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me

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she’s not gonna gonna connect with me

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with my fast hands she’s gonna connect

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with a groove with a smile I love

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thinking outside the box I hear a lot of

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sounds in my mind I think of drums each

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kind of Limp having its own sound or own

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texture and again Indian music not

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stemming from a drum set as Western

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music does it stems from percussion

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instruments so how can you replicate

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those sounds on the drums

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so that’s whirly slinky thing it

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replicates like the ring on a door lock

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and that’s how I see it

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you know taking the hay or playing with

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the RORO toms I hear like congas or

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playing with mallets you know when you

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hit the cymbal you think of the wash of

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a wind or wind chimes so just really

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thinking outside the box and not

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thinking maybe as a drummer thinking of

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someone who loves textures or a musician

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you know drummer musician first drummer

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second since my dad had his own band

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when I was young he gave me that

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platform to play we played around Canada

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played locally in Toronto as well so I

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would say from the age of five was my

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first performance on stage singing and

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playing drums I officially became the

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drummer of his band when I was like 12

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or 13 years old before that I was

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playing a lot of percussion like you

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know the octopods the gut thumbs you

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know the congas or whatnot yeah I think

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playing with Raja sleep was my first

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time playing with the Bollywood monster

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mashup because it’s such a prestigious

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festival as it is the largest South

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Asian festival in Canada and playing

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with Rajdeep was my first time and that

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was my first incredible experience with

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it and I just can’t believe when I

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looked into the audience like I couldn’t

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see a space of ground there’s like heads

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heads heads heads I was like whoa son

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chari we had a set list we did navigate

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you know deviate a bit here and there

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but it was a lot of formatted stuff and

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be shocked it was a lot of Punjabi stuff

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whereas Ansari was a lot of Asha Bhosle

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stuff you got to be on top of knowing

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your repertoire so the challenge is is

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to make the artist happy by adjusting

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your setup and your touch and your

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playing too

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achieve that sound that they’re looking

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for we may be in Canada have a different

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perception of Indian music you know they

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live in India so maybe there’s a lot

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more depth to that what they think of

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you know meeting an artist from India

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from Punjab or one from Gujarat so again

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you know seeing the stylistic

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differences and the authenticity that

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they come with from India which I find

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just fascinating and that’s something

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that I really picked up is the ideas and

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the stylistic stuff next up we have the

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Sangeeta it’s with myself on drums and

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one on the gaia hope you like it

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I feel like jazz is a very broad term in

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today’s world you know back then maybe

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jasmine traditional you know like Miles

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Davis and stuff now there’s like hip-hop

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jazz now there’s fusion jazz now there’s

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Indo jazz improvisation of course is

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very involved in jazz but it also is in

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Indian classical music in afro-cuban

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music so it’s an I think it’s an all

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styles of music yeah because when you go

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to jam sessions like I do you know I go

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to New York sometimes in a jam session

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no one’s gonna say okay so you play this

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note on beat four and you have no it’s

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like okay we’re gonna start okay play

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you know how do I do that I remember as

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a child my dad would put me on stage

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when I was really young and I’d be like

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okay dad what’s the next song wait and

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figure it out and I would cry I’ll go to

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my mama with my dad’s being mean to me

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and my moms like no he’s trying to help

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you he’s trying to teach you how to pick

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up things on the fly thank you for

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watching I really hope that you enjoyed

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that if you liked what you saw if you

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liked my beats I played on some other

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videos as well so check them out and

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