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John Otto [1977-0] American

Rank: 110
Musician

John Everett Otto is a Canadian-American musician best known as the drummer and founding member of nu metal band Limp Bizkit.

Learning

Quote	Tags	Rank
We've got many different sides of music to us.		101
I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.	Learning	102
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.		103
I've always liked funk and rock and everything.		104
Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.		105
I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.		106
It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.		107
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.		108
Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.		109
When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.		110
But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.		111
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.		112
I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.		113
I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.		114
Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.		115
We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.		116
When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.		117

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