Anika Nilles - How Jeff Beck asked me to play his songs live

If you enjoyed this clip, please check out episode 42 of Drum For The Song podcast featuring the insanely talented Anika Nilles who has taken the drum community by storm over the past decade after being 'discovered' on YouTube, within a few years being the cover artist for Modern Drummer Magazine and most recently touring as the drummer for none other than guitar legend himself, Jeff Beck!

In this episode, Anika and I have a great chat about her history with the drums and how she was encouraged to play by her parents at 6 years old and how she got the recent gig with Jeff Beck and what it was like touring with him and Johnny Depp across the UK and Europe and how she had to play most of the tour with an injured right foot which led to her having to learn the set by using just her left foot for the bass drum. She also has some great advice for drummers who would like to get more comfortable with odd time signatures and reveals some of her favourite musicians and inspirations. We also talked about her drum equipment which includes Tama drums, Meinl cymbals, Pro Mark drumsticks, Evans Drumheads and Beyerdynamic microphones.

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[Thomas-kobn]

Sorry I mixed up the name Anika Nilles
She is gorgeous.

[Thomas-kobn]

Jeff Beck was a very good person and an amazing musician.He also has Tal Winkenfeld and nowadays Niki.Our memories of Jeff will be forever.

[clust]

I was surprised myself because you are more in the funk chill pop than blues rock and Jeff is really more bluesy, maybe we could say blues rock progessif. I didn’t see you in concert with him but i sure you’re great. Just wishing to see you both in Monreal someday. Congra

[recordguy]

she aint no Cozy Powell (RIP) thats for sure