Ray Luzier of Korn speaks out against over-edited drums

Korn drummer Ray Luzier was asked what advice he would give young drummers in a recent interview with Drummer’s Review host Ollie Winiberg, as per Blabbermouth.

Aspiring drummers? Go to law school. No… Get a doctor degree, and then… No. You know, it’s a wacky, wacky road, especially today. It’s not like it was when I was getting my start back in the day. Everyone knows that the Internet rules everything — everybody’s online doing everything, everybody’s doing this — so it’s a lot of figuring out the system of today. But stop relying on… One thing that bums me out about today is a lot of drummers will play — they’ll just get by, ’cause they know in the studio it can get fixed.

That stuff drives me nuts. Play your instrument. Get in the garage and suck. I don’t care if it’s for five, 10 years — whatever you need to do — play with musicians all the time. Play with people. Don’t rely on the studio, ’cause people are getting burnt out on the whole stale, stiff, soulless music… We’re all humans, we’re not perfect, but you can perfect or get close to what you want to achieve on your instrument by putting the time in. So put the time in on your instrument. Stop relying on the studio to help you fix everything.

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