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Kris Kohls
(January 2003 Issue)
Serious Road Chop A
musical education can be had from a variety of
sources. You could rent
how-to instructional videos for just about every style and genre you're
trying to master. You
could sit for hours with headphones and
over-analyze every fill and lick from your favorite drummer's
performances. You
could pony up the bucks and sign up for private
lessons. Or you could attempt to do what Kris Kohls from Adema
has
done--hit the road for thirteen months straight with some of hard
rock's finest.
Let's preface all this by
mentioning the fact that
the thirty-year-old Kohls has been playing drums for over twenty years
(but has never received any
formal percussion instruction). Yet, even
two decades of sweating it out in the garage, on stage, and in the
studio
couldn't compare to the crash course he's received in the past
year, since his band's self-titled Arista debut hit
the streets.
According to Kohls, it's been one mighty lesson in building stamina,
being efficient with his energy, and
simply putting some serious brains
behind Adema's show.
"I think my drumming has changed drastically." Kohls
reports. "As far
as technique, I'm pretty much a basher. Instead of paradiddle-diddles
and stuff like that, I just hit
'em as hard as I can. But over the last
year, I've definitely developed a lot more technique as far as
being
controlled, pacing myself, and not gripping the sticks so tight--little
things you learn from playing so
much."
Waleed Rashidi
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