Grammy-winning session drummer Dylan Wissing is now accepting a limited number of serious private students at his Hoboken recording studio. Wissing’s drum tracks appear on such Platinum-selling and #1 charting albums as Alicia Keys Girl on Fire, Drake’s Grammy-winning Take Care, and Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Grammy-nominated Watch the Throne. He appears on Kanye West’s “Power Read the Rest…
We’re huge fans of the recording/engineering blog SonicScoop, so it’s a real honor to be featured on their site. “Is this innovative studio the new king of NYC drum rooms? Our latest ‘Sweet Spot’ is a strong contender,” says SonicScoop. Take a peek at our massive wall of drums, too (and that’s only a fraction of Read the Rest…
Session drummer Dylan Wissing wins his first Grammy award for his work on Drake’s album Take Care. Wissing played drums on the track “Lord Knows” for the disc, which won the “Best Rap Album” category at the 2013 Grammy Awards. Previously, Wissing was nominated for a Grammy in the same category last year for his Read the Rest…
What a way to close out the year: playing drums on the lead single from Alicia Keys’ Billboard Top 200 #1 charting Girl on Fire, and receiving a Grammy nomination for Drake’s Take Care (Best Rap Album)! We’re tracking like mad around here, call us to add Grammy-nominated, #1 charting, Platinum-selling drum tracks to YOUR Read the Rest…
It’s been hard to keep up with website updates, with all the stuff that’s been going on around here. We’ve been tracking drums like mad fiends (even had the Rolling Stones’ horn section in recently for a session), finished building the new studio after the damage from last year’s hurricane, and spent a couple weeks Read the Rest…
We’ve barely had time to breathe here at Indie Studio Drummer, so much has happened since August. Here’s a wrap-up of highlights: Our first Grammy-nominated album! Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Platinum-selling and #1 charting disc Watch the Throne is up for several Grammies this year. Our resident session drummer Dylan Wissing performs on the track “Prime Read the Rest…
Indie Studio Drummer on the Billboard charts! Our own Dylan Wissing played drums on the title track to the Maybach Music Group’s “Self Made,” featuring Rick Ross. The album was number #1 for two weeks straight on both the R&B/Hip Hop Album and Rap Album charts.
Thanks, Musicians Union for the heads-up (several months after the fact, but that’s fine by me)… Apparently the Kanye West / Jay-Z track “Power” I played drums on is prominently featured on the show “Gossip Girls!” If, like everyone here at Indie Studio Drummer, you are dying to find out just what happened on the Read the Rest…
Working once again with studio wizard Ken Lewis and hip hop mega-producer Just Blaze, recording an intense sample recreation for rapper Rick Ross‘ upcoming 2011 release “God Forgives, I Don’t” (Def Jam). Can’t give away the song we’re recreating, but it’s by one of the most famous songwriters in history, and the track is apparently Read the Rest…
More work with mega-Platinum producer Just Blaze and mega-Grammy-winning engineer Ken Lewis: a sample recreation on rapper/actor Saigon‘s track “The Invitation (feat. Q-Tip & Fatman Scoop)” from his latest album The Greatest Story Never Told on Suburban Noize Records! The job on the Indie Studio Drummer end was to exactly recreate the original sample underlying Read the Rest…