Here Nandi Bushell drums like Meg White

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Meg White of The White Stripes during The White Stripes in Concert at Tenda Strisce Theater in Rome - June 6, 2007 at Tenda S

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Meg White at a The White Stripes concert in Rome, 2007.

Photo: FilmMagic, Ernesto Ruscio. All rights reserved.

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Twelve-year-old drummer Nandi Bushell has called Meg White one of her big inspirations and posted a video showing her playing “Seven Nation Army” at different points in her life. The clip shows the internet personality – who has previously competed with Dave Grohl and supported the Foo Fighters at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert – just behind her current set-up. After a cut, you see an old home video at the end in which she jams the song with her father (guitar). She writes that it was the first time she used drumsticks.

In the accompanying tweets, she called White her role model and idol. She offers her part in the “What makes good drumming?” debate by saying: “The more I learn about music, the more I realize that songs and art are created to stir emotions deep in the soul. No matter how fast my fills get or how many rudiments I learn, if I can’t write songs that move people, I can’t call myself an artist.”

The discussion was brought up again during the past week (since March 13) because the journalist Lachlan Markay had made disparaging remarks about the game of the now 58-year-olds on Twitter. Before Bushell paid tribute to the White Stripes drummer, a number of her colleagues had already stepped in to defend White. Among them The Roots drummer Questlove and Ruban Nielson from the Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Jack White also supported her with a poem he had written himself.

The garage rockers are nominated to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. In addition, an anniversary edition of their fourth album “Elephant”, released in 2003, will be released on April 21st. Bushell plans to release her first EP in 2023.

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