How Johnny Hockey Plays Hockey with Music

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If you have read John Perdue's biography, you would know that his second passion other than hockey is playing music, mainly the drums.  As a self taught musician, he has put in endless hours of practice and preparation into music and has since been able to form multiple bands where, during offseasons, John is able to travel around North America and perform his music to sold out clubs and bars.

 

What you may not know about John, however, is that he uses his skills in music and rhythm while he's playing hockey. You may think, "uh yeah, everyone has listened to music during warmups or exercises, that's nothing new."  However, John can attest that no one has used music the way that he does while he's playing on the ice.

 

Before each game, John pops in his earbuds and gets ready to skate along to his special playlist of songs he wrote and recorded specifically for his time on the ice.  Each song has specific beats and rhythms and sounds that correspond to how John should play in certain scenarios on the ice.  For instance, when he is performing in the penalty kill, John puts on a slower song with swelling string orchestral sounds to correspond to his smooth backwards skating and checking in the defensive zone.  Inversely, his powerplay music is fast paced, where he can match the beat to his strides and be able to beat the defender into the offensive zone and get a breakaway chance.

 

If anyone tries to stand in John's way during his first season in the VHLM, well, pun intended...

 

That'll be music to his ears.

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