Drum Emotion (DVD) – Gulli Briem and Szilard Banai I’m never quite sure what to make of drummer’s putting out DVD’s of themselves just, well… playing the drums. I can understand the desire as a drummer to record yourself playing and even to put some of it out on social media, heck, there is now
Back in December 2010 David Phillips published his first book - "A Drummers Perspective: A Photographic Insight into the World of Drummers". The perfect coffee table book for drummers, the book is filled with great shots of the worlds greatest drummers in action. For those who don't know him, David works in artist relations for
There was a time in the not too distant past where smaller snares were really only used as occasional side drums or for effects. However, that all eventually changed and these smaller snares became very common and popular, so much so that 12” drums are often now used as main drums. This particular snare drum,
Alternatives to drum sticks have been around for a long time, but it seems to me that their popularity somewhat exploded about twenty years ago with the release of a little song called Wonderwall. After that, rods seemed to start appearing everywhere. These days, many manufacturers produce rods and they’re not just in the original
In this video, I show you how to assemble a Yamaha Stage Custom Birch drum kit, straight from the box. Using time lapse and concentrating only on the key areas that you really need to know, we present this fourteen minute video - a "must see" for anyone taking home and assembling their first drum
Drumsticks, it’s been ages since I looked at any new drumsticks. However, unlike the last sticks I checked out, these drumsticks are a little different; they’re black for a start but more importantly have Promark’s new Active Grip applied to them. Active Grip is Promark’s answer to sweaty hands. It’s a special heat-activated coating that
Hi, I’m Danny Pearson and welcome to my next lesson in a series for the Mike Dolbear affiliated drum school. One of the most common questions I get asked is ‘how do I come up with better fill-ins?’ or ‘more fill-in ideas’. So in this series I will be showing you the sort of fills
Dave Bateman took three different heads - the new Evans Calftone 56, the Remo Fiberskyn 3 and a Litik real hide head - put them on the same drum, tuned them to the same tension and recorded the results for a comparison. This isn't so much a review, more a chance for you to hear
I think at this point we’re probably now past introducing Sakae as a company and taking about the quality of its products; suffice to say they’re not really ‘new’ anymore and the product line is of a very high quality. This particular review drum has a 14x5” stave shell made from Japanese Cypress wood and
Ok, so two things you need to know about this review - 1. Simon recently looked at the Alesis Sample Pad Pro which is the sibling/built in pad version using the same basic design features so I’m not going to go over the same things he did (and you can read about that HERE), and
