Hanna Brewer is probably best known as drummer and lead vocalist in power trio Purple. Hanna recalls how she started playing drums at the age of nine when she found a really small drumset made for little kids in the storage shed behind her house: "It was my brother’s old set. I thought it was so freaking cool. My dad started jamming with me on guitar, and that’s how I learned to play - just jamming. Then I joined marching band in school and worked for my dad to get a drumset. On my fourteenth birthday, my parents bought me a Tama Superstar set."



Hanna Brewer names Dave Grohl as one of her favorite drummers because he is a heavy hitter and does the perfect amount of fills: "Dave's so solid, and that's how I drum. I really like hip-hop beats, and I try to mix that together with a rock style—kind of like how the drummer for Incubus does it."



Hanna Brewer's advise for playing drums is to play for the song: "Showing off how many fills you can play can ruin a show or a song. Also, play hard with your heart, and hold the freaking beat down. Nothing drives me crazier than a drummer that plays softly doing a bunch of off-tempo crap. I started out playing bass for my band, but switched to drums because no one would play like that."