At the age of twenty-five, the German drummer was employed in a preschool. She is an insanely good chopsper and she has played with Jeff ...
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At the age of twenty-five, the German drummer was employed in a preschool. She is an insanely good chopsper and she has played with Jeff Beck in 2022. However, her life has just gone awry.
When most fans got over the first shock of hearing that Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson will play as Rush next year, the next topic of discussion was who will be filling in the vacancy left by the late Neil Peart as the drummer. The solution is German young talent Anika Nilles. Lee in a statement wrote, we could not be happier to present her to our loyal and dedicated Rush fan base. We are aware that they will afford her all opportunities of performing to that almost impossible role.
On a video that accompanied the news of the tour, Lee discussed his meeting with Nilles. How are we going to get someone who is replaceable? he asked. My bass tech, Scully, informed me that he had been on tour with Jeff Beck. At work, his girlfriend was a drummer called Anika Nilles. He discussed the strength she had, the skill and music she possessed and the awe she was so impressive. And I believe that the play with her caused Alex and me to feel charged. Our music was now returning. It took rehearsals to go well with her before I said, Yes, we can do this. And we can make this right. "This is going to be fun too."
The real drummers are aware of the name Nilles, and her YouTube channel has 225,000 followers who tune in to see her perform her seriously amazing chops and jam with such artists as guitarist Joshua De La Victoria and drummer Kaz Rodriquez. Most rock fans however do not know much about her, despite having watched her play with Jeff Beck in 2022.
Nilles has been playing drums since the time she was a little girl, and she soon got to know how to play it properly. In response to question 15, she said: Orange: drums are such a physical instrument. It is all about getting your body to work together and get to know what rhythms and sounds you desire to produce. Because of the fact that it is only me and the drums, it usually feels like yoga to me. In the meantime I forget all about it. That gives me a lot of freedom.
At the age of 16 she informed her parents that she wanted to play drums to have a job. They told her, "No, no, no!" as she told The Beat in 2023. First thou must do something significant. I attended school and finished five years to graduate as a preschool teacher and subsequently graduated as a social worker. The course was enjoyable, allow me to be creative and at the end of the final, I received a wonderful employment opportunity. But I was obliged to put some thought into my position.
It was only at nearly twenty-five years old that she gave up her employment to pursue music on a full-time basis. In 2017, she said to Modern Drummer that she had never been that happy at that job. "However, it is difficult to give up when you are spending money and feel secure.
She left her then-occupation as a preschool teacher and went to the Popakademie Baden-Wurttemberg in Mannheim, Germany, to study popular music. To ensure that people did not see her play when she was training in the college, she informed Drumeo, that she would shut the doors and cover the windows. I despised the idea that other people would be able to hear me fail. Nevertheless, I was aware that I was improving, both mentally and in playing drums, at some point.
In 2013, Nilles uploaded her original song Wild boy. Then, the videos of her playing it also went viral, bringing her world trips and jobs as a teacher. Her debut album is Pikalar which was released in 2017. In 2022, she also took part in the final tour with the great guitarist Jeff Beck.
Rush has not introduced a new member in the band since it was joined by Peart in 1974. They would never allow other musicians to share the stage with them even after they added keyboards in their sound. Instead, Lee would know how to sing, bass and play piano simultaneously. However, those are days that are ending. Another option, according to Lee in the video that makes the news, is on the way. I would like to think of being in a position to take a back seat and play bass with the drummer, Lifeson. I believe we will have to join someone to the band perhaps a piano player. What is your opinion of that idea?
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