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Eric Darken - percussion, drums, loops

Base price $250. Your price may vary

 
Eric Darken has become one of Nashville's first call percussionists and programmers. His work can be heard on a wide variety of projects including Megedeth, Faith Hill, Vince Gill, Trisha Yearwood, Keith Urban, Mercy Me, Richard Marx, Lonestar, Art Garfunkel, Brad Paisley, Amy Grant, Brooks and Dunn and others. His unique style combines his love for all styles of music including pop, latin, world and classical. He pulls from large assortment of traditional and non traditional percussion instruments which allow him to create a musical landscape unlike others.
Eric's "Discrete Percussion" is the winner of Electronic Musician's Editor's Choice Award.

Although known as a percussionist, he started playing drums at the age of 12. He brings the ''street-sounding'' drumset element to a track, embellishes it with his percussion and then can create and underlying ''loop'' to go with everything. The end result being a creative rhythmic landscape! Some of these examples can be heard on several Discrete Drums series (click "hear audio clips" button below).

Besides his work as a percussionist, he composes and produces music which has been heard on Dateline, 20/20, Discovery Channel and various MSNBC shows. He has also written and produced many instrumental projects.

 

 

Yes, Eric owns a hi-hat!