John Otto
John Otto
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 March 1977
CountryUnited States of America
exactly felt
I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
learning
I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.
fully hear learned
Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.
certain drum fills sake
Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.
music
We've got many different sides of music to us.
We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.
emphasize groove knew points strong totally
We knew we wanted to take the strong points of our groove and emphasize them as well, and we knew we wanted to just totally experiment.
awful
When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.
climax
When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
completing quite soloing time yamaha
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.