Drumming Tips and Reviews For Acoustic and Electronic Drums!
It is not unusual when working on writing out a musical number for an ensemble to get through everything and then come to the drums and be totally stumped as to what to do and how to write for the instrument. You have beautiful strings, a hard-hitting horn section, but when you get to the …
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There must be something in a drummer’s DNA that makes them such fiends for improving their hand speed. Every drummer seems to want to be the fastest, despite the fact that, in your day-to-day drumming life, you very rarely need to be the fastest. Who am I to stand in the way of your quest, …
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I was fortunate to live within walking distance of one of the best custom drum builders in the world, Greg Gaylord. Greg’s company, Drum Solo (www.drumsolo.cc which is now down but he now works for Craviotto Drums) is well known for producing some of the best sounding – and best looking – drums on the …
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Essentially, there are two methods to grip drum sticks. They are the traditional grip and the matched grip. It’s fun experimenting with both methods. I use matched grip about 70% of the time. I switch to traditional grip because of tendentious issues. If I feel my forearm or wrists tightening up or getting a bit sore …
Read More Traditional vs Matched Grip – How to Hold Drum Sticks!A mallet is a hand-held beater that features a head linked to a slim shaft, and used in pairs for drumming or other instruments. There are different types of mallets. The type used on drums is the felt mallets, also known as cartwheel mallets. They come with heads that have layers of felt. The player …
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When it comes to double bass pedals, there are two products of the same brand that you should consider: the DW 3000 and the DW 5000 double bass pedal. But how do they compare to each other?
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Being a part of the 2Box DrumIt Five electronic drum kit, The Brain, also called the Drum Module of the DrumIt Five, is the main box that produces the sounds of the electronic drum kit. It uses the same color scheme as the drum kit – orange and black.
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You need double bass drum exercises to practice if you want to become proficient or exceptional using double bass in your music. Below you’ll get basic, intermediate, and advanced double bass drum exercises to help you improve your playing. Two bass drums can be used in one way or another in most for forms of …
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It is essential for every drummer to get familiar with triplets, including varieties of them such as the Steve Gadd and John Bonham style triplets. One can play eighth note and the sixteenth note triplets. What is a triplet exactly? A triplet means that there are three notes in literal terms; so, playing the triplet …
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Drum rudiments are among the most essential parts of drumming. You can call them the building blocks to any drum beat, solo, fill, and pattern. It doesn’t matter what level you’ve attained as a drummer (beginner or advanced), you must practice your rudiments. In all, there are 40 drum rudiments, some are basic while others …
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