Drumming Tips and Reviews For Acoustic and Electronic Drums!
When you first buy a double kick pedal, you immediately notice that you can’t play anything up to a satisfying tempo, which is infuriating because you’ve been playing all these years and you feel like you should be better than this. The very simple reason is that nobody uses their hi-hat foot like they use …
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For many of drummers, volume and speed are the holiest and most obsessive of pursuits. Powerful drumming can take us to the most immediate and primal areas of our conscience. We have all been to YouTube at some point in our careers and typed in “fastest drummer in the world” or “how to build speed” …
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Coming across an old, beaten up drum kit and nursing it back to health with a combination of lacquer and butterfly kisses is a romantic idea, but it’s so rarely plain sailing. Restoring a kit isn’t just for Christmas, in fact, it’s a process that could have you tearing your hair out. You’ve probably come …
Read More Finding, Collecting and Selling Vintage Drums!“I just need you to live in that pocket.” “Feel that pocket, exist within it.” “God damn it, Jeremy, play in the friggen pocket JEEEEEEZ!” These are sentences we’ve all heard. This is one of those strange lexicon anomalies like when someone describes music as a colour (or describes a colour as a concept or …
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If you your’e more of a percussionist but do not want all of the trouble having to carry around so many types of percussion or renting them then you might want to switch to an electronic percussion machine. One such is the Roland HandSonic 10.
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At every stage of your drumming career, tuning your kit will be one of the most crucial things you have to do, so it is best to learn early. There are various methods that you will come across and they should be explored with great care in order for you to determine your own preference. …
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There really aren’t too many things that will help make a better drummer than practice, practice and more practice. However, there are some very handy apps that will work very well alongside your practice or production routine. Below are five essential apps that every drummer must have if they are searching for fun and constructive …
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The Roland SPD-30 Octapad is a versatile electronic percussion system and musicians love it, even though it has some limitations. One of the features I like the most is what’s called phrase loop technology (it’s amazing)… The Octapad has a total of 50 kits and the MIDI controller / standalone electronic percussion kit will deliver you high …
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Of all of the lessons that we have navigated our way through so far, this one will probably be the most challenging. When it comes to jazz drumming, limb independence is of vital importance. It will help massively towards improvisational playing, so adopting the ability to control, separate and coordinate your hands and feet is …
Read More 5 Challenging Jazz Fills!Oh man. It’s time to talk about every drummer’s favorite aspect of practicing: developing limb independence! You know when you sit down at the kit after a hard day and you just can’t wait to tear into some slow, methodical, awkward grooves? Listen, I’m sorry, I don’t like writing about this stuff as much as …
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