Anika Nilles Learns Neil Peart's Parts by Feel for Rush Reunion Tour
TL;DR
German drummer Anika Nilles explains she was recruited to Rush to succeed Neil Peart and prepared for the reunion tour by learning his parts through listening and chunking, prioritizing feel over notation, as the band reconnected after years apart.
- New Rush Drummer Anika Nilles Says Learning Neil Peart's Parts Was Unlike Anything She's Done Before: 'You Cannot Really Write It Out. a Lot of It Is Kind of a Feeling' Ultimate Guitar
- Six years after the death of its drummer, Rush roars back to life The Washington Post
- Rush Night Two: The Fifty Something Tour Is a Rock Miracle Yahoo
- Rush Night Three: All of ‘Moving Pictures’ and Much More Rolling Stone
- “She was a complete stranger. She was a bit intimidated at first because she’d heard of the band, but she wasn’t a Rush fan”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee on Anika Nilles’ rollercoaster audition for Rush's Fifty Something tour Guitar World
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