Last week we learned that Neil Peart is featured on the October, 2012 issue of DRUM! magazine. The cover tagline reads, Neil Peart: Rush Master Class - Clockwork Angels By The Numbers. John over at Cygnus-X1.net has scanned and transcribed the article and made it available online at this location. Peart talks about his rehearsal and warmup regimens, learning from drumming legends Freddie Gruber and Peter Erskine, and his improvisational approach to recording the Clockwork Angels album:

... "The determination to become more improvisational, to become more groove-orientated - the dirty-greasy groove I call it - it's a combination I wanted to have." Thus, for this latest recording, Peart says he would "play a song a few times myself and see what would work and then I'd call Nick in and we'd start recording." Of Raskulinecz, Peart says, "He's so enthusiastic that we had a ball, you know, just working. Nick's full of suggestions and crazy ideas - some of which I would never dream of putting into a song." ...

You can read the entire article/interview here. Thanks John!

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