{"id":17288,"date":"2019-03-06T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17288"},"modified":"2019-03-04T12:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:26:28","slug":"camosun-charger-doug-waterman-graduating-from-court-to-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/03\/06\/camosun-charger-doug-waterman-graduating-from-court-to-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Charger Doug Waterman graduating from court to stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The city of Victoria has yet to see the best of local hip-hop artist Doug Waterman. Waterman is about to graduate from Camosun College; once he is freed of his responsibilities to his education, and of his duties as team captain on the Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball team, Waterman will be able to invest more time in his passion for hip hop and production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His experiences with music throughout his life\u2014playing the snare drum in Cadets, taking piano lessons, and performing in his middle-school jazz band\u2014have built a foundation upon which Waterman has developed a passion for producing hip hop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI pretty much always start with making a beat,\u201d says Waterman of his creative process, \u201cwhich usually starts with some sort of melody, or keys. I\u2019m definitely a huge fan of piano, that kind of nice melody sound. I\u2019m a big fan of Drake and his producer 40; I\u2019m a huge fan of that kind of sound, so I pretty much always start with keys or some sort of melody, and then I\u2019ll add in some drums. I always pull in my drums specifically; I\u2019ll never pull in a drum kit. I always pull in each sound separately based on what I want on top of it, and then I\u2019ll start kind of layering depending on what I hear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camosun student and Chargers athlete Doug Waterman laying down some rhymes for a receptive crowd (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Waterman recently travelled to LA to perform as a part of a showcase for up-and-coming musicians. He found it motivating to perform in a new city and receive positive feedback from an unfamiliar audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was definitely a really cool experience, just being from completely out of town,\u201d says Waterman. \u201cI definitely was really ready for my set when I went there, and I got a good response from other performers that were there, and just the crowd in general, which was super nice. I have yet to put out my best music, obviously, so being able to perform at a good level with the music I have out now, and get a good response from a totally unbiased crowd, was really nice to see. [It was] promising. It\u2019s just like a bit of a confidence boost, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waterman\u2019s coach for the past four years has been Charles Parkinson. Parkinson says that when he recruited Waterman, he wouldn\u2019t have guessed that he was a budding musician. Even though he may not be a big hip hop fan, Parkinson is impressed by Waterman\u2019s music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI must admit I do find a lot of his stuff is infectious,\u201d says Parkinson. \u201cThe beats are good, and I like his lyrics; I think they\u2019re actually pretty good. Hip hop in general isn\u2019t really my thing, but of course I make exceptions, and I go on the website and I listen to his music and think, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s Doug!\u2019 Yeah, so it\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting ready to move on to the next chapter in his life, Waterman is grateful for the time he has had at Camosun and in particular with his Chargers teammates and his coach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCharles has been with me for four years. We\u2019ve won [provincials] four times, won nationals once, so it\u2019s been pretty interesting. I\u2019ve been really lucky coming in at the right time, starting my first year, and going through these four years, having incredible teammates to help me with this achievement that\u2019s been donned upon me. I think when I look back it will be a good chapter of my life, probably the best one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city of Victoria has yet to see the best of local hip-hop artist Doug Waterman. Waterman is about to graduate from Camosun College; once he is freed of his responsibilities to his education, and of his duties as team captain on the Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball team, Waterman will be able to invest more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-march-6-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17290,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288\/revisions\/17290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}