{"id":6567,"date":"2019-07-29T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T19:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:13:21","slug":"travis-barker-create-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8220;Create something new that doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Regarded as one of today\u2019s most influential drummers, Travis Barker is a world-class musician and producer who has sold millions of records with his bands blink-182, +44, and Transplants. As a solo artist, Barker has produced and made appearances on projects spanning an expansive array of genres\u2014he has collaborated with the likes of Lil Wayne, Lil Nas X, Halsey, Steve Aoki, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Barker recently sat down with us and discussed his beginnings, creating memorable drum grooves, transcending genres, and more\u2014see the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about how Travis Barker got his start drumming, his early days with blink-182, his views on collaboration, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":6570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1692],"tags":[348,1061,1254],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres - Blog | Splice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about how Travis Barker got his start drumming, his early days with blink-182, his views on collaboration, and more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres - Blog | Splice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn about how Travis Barker got his start drumming, his early days with blink-182, his views on collaboration, and more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blog | Splice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Splice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-29T19:47:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-22T16:13:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Harrison Shimazu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/bitly.com\/namaboku-twt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@splice\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Harrison Shimazu\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Harrison Shimazu\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/1ed73f890efad66c4808440680e9e50d\"},\"headline\":\"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-29T19:47:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-22T16:13:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/\"},\"wordCount\":106,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png\",\"keywords\":[\"drums\",\"sample packs\",\"sounds\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Stories\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/\",\"name\":\"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres - Blog | Splice\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-29T19:47:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-22T16:13:21+00:00\",\"description\":\"Learn about how Travis Barker got his start drumming, his early days with blink-182, his views on collaboration, and more.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":800},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Splice Blog\",\"description\":\"An inside look at making music\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Splice\",\"alternateName\":\"Splice Sounds\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Splice-logo-black-background.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Splice-logo-black-background.png\",\"width\":2928,\"height\":1540,\"caption\":\"Splice\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Splice\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/splice\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/splice\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@splice\",\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/splice\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/1ed73f890efad66c4808440680e9e50d\",\"name\":\"Harrison Shimazu\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/208af1495724cce6967f47553c4b971a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/208af1495724cce6967f47553c4b971a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Harrison Shimazu\"},\"description\":\"Harrison Shimazu is a composer, content strategist, and writer who's passionate about democratizing music creation and education. He leads the Splice blog and produces vocaloid music as Namaboku.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@namaboku\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/bitly.com\/namaboku-twt\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/author\/harrisons\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres - Blog | Splice","description":"Learn about how Travis Barker got his start drumming, his early days with blink-182, his views on collaboration, and more.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres - Blog | Splice","og_description":"Learn about how Travis Barker got his start drumming, his early days with blink-182, his views on collaboration, and more.","og_url":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/","og_site_name":"Blog | Splice","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Splice","article_published_time":"2019-07-29T19:47:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-07-22T16:13:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Harrison Shimazu","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/bitly.com\/namaboku-twt","twitter_site":"@splice","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Harrison Shimazu","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/"},"author":{"name":"Harrison Shimazu","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/1ed73f890efad66c4808440680e9e50d"},"headline":"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres","datePublished":"2019-07-29T19:47:20+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-22T16:13:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/"},"wordCount":106,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png","keywords":["drums","sample packs","sounds"],"articleSection":["Stories"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/","url":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/","name":"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres - Blog | Splice","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png","datePublished":"2019-07-29T19:47:20+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-22T16:13:21+00:00","description":"Learn about how Travis Barker got his start drumming, his early days with blink-182, his views on collaboration, and more.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Travis_Barker_Video_BlogPost.png","width":1280,"height":800},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/travis-barker-create-something-new\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Travis Barker on his beginnings, creating memorable beats, and transcending genres"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/","name":"Splice Blog","description":"An inside look at making music","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Splice","alternateName":"Splice Sounds","url":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Splice-logo-black-background.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Splice-logo-black-background.png","width":2928,"height":1540,"caption":"Splice"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Splice","https:\/\/x.com\/splice","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/splice\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@splice","https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/splice"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/1ed73f890efad66c4808440680e9e50d","name":"Harrison Shimazu","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/208af1495724cce6967f47553c4b971a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/208af1495724cce6967f47553c4b971a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Harrison Shimazu"},"description":"Harrison Shimazu is a composer, content strategist, and writer who's passionate about democratizing music creation and education. He leads the Splice blog and produces vocaloid music as Namaboku.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@namaboku","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/bitly.com\/namaboku-twt"],"url":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/author\/harrisons\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36875,"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/36875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}