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Guitar Center Drum-Off Champion Juan Carlos Mendoza to Host Drum Clinics
Guitar Center Drum-Off champion Juan Carlos Mendoza will be hosting a series of free drum clinics at four east coast Guitar Center locations this August. The clinics will focus on technique, offering drummers the opportunity to learn the tricks of…
The Gene Hoglan Experience: An Intimate Gathering for Metal Fans
The Gene Hoglan Experience is an intimate gathering of metal fans brought together to celebrate the legacy and thirty-year career of one of metal’s most legendary drummers. Gene Hoglan is currently planning a series of these appearances to take place…
Stronger Than the Storm Music Contest
Stronger Than the Storm’s music contest, The Jersey Shore Soundoff, invites musicians to enter a song through strongerthanthestorm.com/summersoundoff for a chance to win an opening slot in a major New Jersey talent show that will take place after Labor Day…
Guitar Center Launches Its 25th Annual Drum-Off Competition
The nationwide competition in search of the next great undiscovered drummer offers the chance to a win career-launching prize package Guitar Center’s Drum-Off launches its 25th annual search for the next great undiscovered drummer. Developed to spotlight the drumming community, Guitar Center’s…
Product Close-Up: Acoutin Custom Metal/Wood Snares
September 2013 Product Close-Up Acoutin Custom Metal/Wood Snare Drums by Stephen Bidwell I first became aware of Acoutin Custom at PASIC 2012. Owner/operator Cooper Acoutin was sharing a booth space with fellow builder Ronn Dunnett, and while I was there…
In the Studio: Seeing Sounds, Part 3: Funk (September 2013 issue) UPDATED
September 2013 In the Studio Seeing Sounds Part 3: Funk by Donny Gruendler Funk drumming is synonymous with masters like James Brown’s Clyde Stubblefield, Tower of Power’s David Garibaldi, P-Funk’s Tiki Fulwood, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith.…
Jazz Drummer’s Workshop: Approaching Standards, Part 1 (September 2013 issue)
September 2013 Jazz Drummer’s Workshop Approaching Standards A Framework for Musical Practice, Part 1: Phrasing by Steve Fidyk Jazz musicians spend a considerable amount of practice time learning standard tunes in a variety of keys. By doing so, they become…
Strictly Technique: Playing the Sixes, Part 2
https://vimeo.com/458085362 September 2013 Strictly Technique Playing the Sixes Part 2: Speed and Orchestration by Chris Prescott It can be difficult to get young students to feel excited about sitting down and working on rudiments. The material in this two-part…
Darren Weiss of Papa
Hey everybody! It’s Darren Weiss here from Los Angeles, CA. I sing and play drums for Papa. We released our debut EP, A Good Woman Is Hard To Find, in 2011, and since then have been touring with bands like…
Philly Drum Project Welcomes the Flight Drum Tour
The Flight Drum Tour will present a drum clinic featuring artists Derek Palizay and Maison Guidry on August 5 at 7 pm at 2222 Walnut Street in Philadelphia. Tickets are $8 online or $10 at the door. Flight Drummers is…
Jazz/Rock Drummer Aaron Comess to Play Smoke Jazz in NYC on August 13
Respected jazz and rock drummer/producer Aaron Comess will be performing some of his favorite material from the ’60s with a quintet on August 13 at Smoke Jazz in New York City. Comess, whose Smoke Jazz appearance last year was previewed…
Australian Drummer Simon Barker’s “Three Streams???
Australian Drummer Simon Barker on his Solo Composition “Three Streams” “Here in Australia we’re very fortunate to be able to experience numerous incredible drumming traditions developed throughout Asia and the Pacific,” says Barker. “And I really love trying to play…
Strictly Technique: Irish Spring (April 2012)
(April 2012 Issue) Strictly Technique Chops Builders: Irish Spring (Without Accents) by Bill Bachman In this lesson, we’re going to go old school—with a new twist. What we’re working on is a standard exercise called “Irish Spring” that comprises swung…
Jimmy Boyette of the Light Within
My name is Jimmy Boyette, and I perform in the band the Light Within, which started with three band members living in a one-bedroom apartment in Lake Worth, Florida. All the members in the Light Within shared the same drive…
