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The Drum Panel: His mouth time can finally relax on a bullet train to Iowa

Ben here. On this week’s episode of Drummers on Drumming (powered by Big Fat Snare Drum), we’re back with another round of The Drum Panel. J...

51:52May 6, 2026

The Drum Panel: Jessica screams at Ben to shut up.

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. I’m Ben Hilzinger, and this is another segment of The Drum Pa...

47:22Apr 29, 2026

The Drum Panel: The corkboard at Piggly Wiggly

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. I’m Ben Hilzinger, and this is another segment of The Drum Pa...

49:06Apr 22, 2026

The Drum Panel: We’re just junkies

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming ...a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum... In this episode of The Drum Panel, I’m joined by Jared Sh...

49:27Apr 15, 2026

James Gadson: The Groove Behind "Use Me," "Kissing My Love," "Dancing Machine," and More

This week’s episode is a special one. In light of James Gadson’s passing, I wanted to bring this conversation back to the top of the feed. J...

35:45Apr 8, 2026

The Drum Panel: Preptides. Prepto-Bismol and how to maintain that prep in your step

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. In this episode of The Drum Panel, I’m joined by Eric Urrea (...

30:13Apr 1, 2026

John Stanier (Helmet, Battles, Tomahawk) shares the records that shaped his playing

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. We're here with another segment of Big Fat Five and today’s guest is Jo...

39:28Mar 25, 2026

Drummers On Food On Tour On Drumming (Lactaid is sick)

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This week, we’re celebrating the release of Mike Robinson’s n...

47:28Mar 18, 2026

The Drum Panel: What is a blue groove?

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming...a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. In this segment of The Drum Panel, I’m joined by Eric Urrea...

52:58Mar 11, 2026

The Drum Panel: Is the sound in the room with us right now?

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming...a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. In this segment of The Drum Panel, I’m joined by Eric Urrea...

52:24Mar 4, 2026

The Drum Panel: Does "good" technique HAVE to feel good?

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This is another segment of The Drum Panel featuring myself, S...

71:09Feb 25, 2026

Tim Very (Manchester Orchestra) shares the five records that shaped his playing [Revisited]

What is up? Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. I decided to move this episode toward the top of the feed a...

50:20Feb 18, 2026

The Drum Panel: Chick Corea's cheap but good advice for playing music in a group PART ONE

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This episode is a new installment of The Drum Panel, and it’s Part One...

41:43Feb 11, 2026

Patch Mahoney (Hilary Duff, Bebe Rexha) shares the records that shaped his playing.

Welcome back to Big Fat Five, a segment of Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This episode is a first for the show. For th...

50:30Feb 4, 2026

The Drum Panel: Gunnar would request a bald cap first

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming ... a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This week's Drum Panel features myself (Ben Hilzinger) alo...

46:19Jan 28, 2026

The Drum Panel: The Bubble Solution

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming ... a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum This week’s Drum Panel has me joined by Mark Stepro and Kri...

57:32Jan 21, 2026

The Drum Panel: A narcissist and a self-deprecator walked into a bar [gig]...

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This week’s Drum Panel features me, Ben Hilzinger, alongside George Mar...

38:48Jan 14, 2026

The Drum Panel: We all chose Grandma as our least favorite

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. Happy New Year. This week’s Drum Panel features me, Ben Hilzinger, alon...

52:31Jan 7, 2026

My favorite moments from 2025 - Part Two

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This week features another batch of my favorite clips over the past yea...

47:07Dec 17, 2025

My favorite moments from 2025 - Part One

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This week features a few of my favorite clips over the past year. Let m...

40:32Dec 10, 2025

The Drum Panel: 15 sec > 15 min

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. Featuring myself, Ben Hilzinger, with Gunnar Olsen (Puscifer, TrackTrib...

64:41Dec 10, 2025

The Drum Panel: Choose your hard, but don't get bajiggity

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This week features me, Ben Hilzinger, alongside Eric Urrea (Marina City...

56:06Nov 26, 2025

Madden Klass (Chappell Roan, Boygenius) shares the records that shaped her playing

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This is another installment of Big Fat Five, where I invite my favorite...

46:03Nov 19, 2025

The Drum Panel: The Freddy Krueger Method

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This week’s panel features Eric Urrea, me, and a new friend of the podc...

57:06Nov 12, 2025

The Drum Panel: The most musical thing you can do isn’t musical

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This week’s The Drum Panel features me, Eric Downs, and Chance Famighet...

62:46Nov 5, 2025

The 2nd mouse started asking questions...

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. We’re back with my bestest mouse, Chance Famighetti, aka Free Arlo. Las...

54:36Oct 29, 2025

I interview the guy I replaced...

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This week’s episode features my buddy Chance Famighetti, also...

47:34Oct 22, 2025

Anika Nilles (Rush) shares the records that shaped her playing

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. If you haven’t heard, RUSH just announced a run of new shows...

33:06Oct 15, 2025

The Drum Panel: Infiltrating hardcore with collared shirts

Welcome back to The Drum Panel with me, Ben Hilzinger, alongside Eric Urrea and Kris Mazzarisi. We cover a lot of ground today, but most of...

43:58Oct 8, 2025

Terry Silverlight breaks down the music that shaped him

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming. This is another installment of Big Fat Five—the series where I sit down with my favorite drummers and...

61:05Oct 1, 2025

Calvin Rodgers breaks down the five records that influenced his playing

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming. This is another installment of Big Fat Five—the series where I sit down with my favorite drummers and...

45:14Sep 24, 2025

Zach Danziger breaks down the five records that influenced his playing

We’re back with another installment of Big Fat Five - a segment of the show where I chat with my favorite drummers about the 5 records that...

61:18Sep 17, 2025

The Drum Panel: Your Mind's Ear

Today on The Drum Panel, we’ve got Dave Elitch and Sarab Singh. Dave has worked with The Mars Volta, Weezer, The 1975, Justin Timberlake, an...

61:15Sep 10, 2025

Xavier Ware (Bilmuri) breaks down the five records that influenced his playing

On this episode of Big Fat Five, I’m joined by drummer Xavier Ware. He’s currently out on the road with Bilmuri, and his playing is UNREAL—a...

58:16Sep 3, 2025

Steve Goold (Drummer / Educator) breaks down the five records that influenced his playing

I’ve been deep into working on the second book, which has me going back through a bunch of the older conversations. One that really stood ou...

42:54Aug 27, 2025

The Drum Panel: Every one of my friend's drum sets sounds better than mine.

This Drum Panel episode picks up where we left off with Brendan Buckley (Shakira, Morrissey, Perry Farrell) and Gunnar Olsen (Puscifer, Moth...

48:46Aug 20, 2025

The Drum Panel: Your electrician is my favorite drummer

This Drum Panel brings together Brendan Buckley—drummer for Shakira, Perry Farrell, Morrissey, and more—and one of my closest friends, Gunna...

53:43Aug 13, 2025

The Drum Panel: What do you mean you like what I do?

Welcome back to The Drum Panel! Featuring: Ben Hilzinger (me!), Joe Lana Jr. (@thecowboydrummer), and Eric Urrea (Marina City) Inside this e...

45:33Aug 6, 2025

Cain Daniel (Jesus Molina) breaks down the five records that influenced his playing

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, a podcast powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. I’m Ben Hilzinger, and this is another installment of Big Fat...

29:58Jul 30, 2025

The Drum Panel: You’re totally not a mound of dirt

Ben (me..hi!), Mark Stepro (The Wallflowers) and Eric Urrea (Marina City) talk about the gear that go away... Our favorite BAD recordings Ho...

62:23Jul 23, 2025

Big Fat Five: Marcus Finnie (Drummer/Composer/Educator) Shares His Top 5 Influential Records

This week’s installment of Big Fat Five features Marcus Finnie…a proud Memphis native now based in Nashville and he’s one of the most respec...

48:26Jul 16, 2025

The Drum Panel: Gunnar Sounds Great!

In this PART 2 episode of The Drum Panel, I’m yet again joined by drummers Gunnar Olsen (Puscifer, Big Data) and Eric Urrea (Marina City) fo...

40:04Jul 9, 2025

The Drum Panel: Debby Boone Pat Pat

In this episode, The Drum Panel returns with ME (Ben Hilzinger), alongside my co-host Eric Urrea (Marina City), Gunnar Olsen (Puscifer, Bruc...

53:43Jul 2, 2025

The Drum Panel: The Schelp is Real...I'm Happy?

In this episode, The Drum Panel returns with ME (Ben Hilzinger), alongside my co-host Eric Urrea (Marina City), Cain Daniel (Jesus Molina, D...

55:20Jun 25, 2025

The Drum Panel: Taste Is Fake, but My Feelings Are Real

In this episode, The Drum Panel returns with ME (Ben Hilzinger), alongside my co-host Eric Urrea (Marina City), Max Flanders (Lukas Nelson),...

44:17Jun 18, 2025

Big Fat Five: Ari Hoenig (Drummer / Educator) Shares His Most Influential Records

My guest today is Ari Hoenig — drummer, composer, educator, and all-around wizard behind the kit. Ari is known for his melodic, almost vocal...

30:42Jun 11, 2025

Big Fat Five: Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin & Wood) Shares His Most Influential Records

This week’s guest is Billy Martin ... a world-renowned drummer, educator, visual artist, producer, and author. He has collaborated with some...

54:23Jun 4, 2025

The Drum Panel: Pocket, Pep Talks & Paris Regrets

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. In this part two episode, I continue my deep-dive chat with co-host Eri...

48:39May 28, 2025

The Drum Panel: Master Rights, Mid-Gig Panic, and the Myth of “Making It”

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. In this episode of The Drum Panel, I’m joined by my co-host Eric Urrea...

44:01May 21, 2025

The Drum Panel: Trash Can Lids, Technique Traps, and Amateur Traits

Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. In this episode of The Drum Panel, host Ben Hilzinger is joined by Ster...

38:16May 14, 2025