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Play Like a Legend: Celebrating Steve Smith's Birthday with a Special Journey Transcription
Journey “Lovin’ You Is Easy,” Evolution Smith’s funky groove playing and creative beat design join forces on the song “Lovin’ YouIs Easy”. He plays a broken pattern on the ride bell that matches up with Neal Schon’s rhythmguitar part and…
Guitar Center Partners with Drum Workshop for “DW Factory Day” on Saturday, August 24
Taking place at DW’s headquarters in Oxnard, California, and open to the public, this special event will feature one-day-only factory pricing, facility and showroom tours, artist clinics, special events and giveaways WHO: Guitar Center, the world’s largest musical instrument retailer, partnering…
Bruno Esrubilsky | Modern Drummer Podcast #13
Drummer Bruno Esrubilsky of Mitski, sat down with Modern Drummer's David Frangioni and Danny "Ziggy" Laverde to discuss his influences, the tour, his approach to performing Mitski's music, and more. Check out Bruno's Tour Kit: https://youtu.be/RXTdcFdSIq8 Like what you see?…
Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) to host online presentation by Sensaphonics president Dr. Michael Santucci, AuD, on August 22
— “Preventing Hearing Injury from Loud Music: Strategies and Tools” will take place Thursday, August 22, 2024, at noon EDT; the session is open to the public (registration is required) — The Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) is hosting an…
A limited time special gift from Waves Audio: Waves SuperTap
Vintage Tape Echo Effects—Modernized and Redefined Multi-head tape delays defined the sound of spacey echoes. SuperTap does everything the vintage hardware did, but its 6 independent stereo delay lines deliver far more flexibility. SuperTap’s modulation, feedback delay, and filtering enhance…
Free Lesson: Bob Moses Drum Wisdom - Mastering the Eight Points
The Eight Points Once you accept the 8/8 flow as a useful concept, the next logical conclusion is that there are eight points in the bar that you can resolve to: the four up beats and the four down beats.…
Paulina "Pau" Villarreal | Modern Drummer Podcast #12
After winning the "Up & Coming" category in our 2023 Modern Drummer Readers Poll, Paulina "Pau" Villarreal and her bandmates from The Warning sat down with David Frangioni for an episode of the Modern Drummer Podcast. They covered several topics,…
2024 Les DeMerle Little Big Band “Dance & Jazz Party Cruise”
Join the fun on the high seas with the Dynamic Les DeMerle Little Big Band featuring Bonnie Eisele on their second annual Dance and Jazz Party Cruise. Swing with us for 6 nights of exclusive themed shows for listening and…
New Cardboard Sessions Featuring Grammy Award Winning Drummer Daru Jones
Part One with Daru Jones ft. MarkNoxx as NoxxJones out Today Part Two with Daru Jones ft. DJ J. Rocc out Next Week Both Sessions Produced by Dweezil Zappa Today, Cardboard Sessions releases the first of two new episodes featuring GRAMMY Award…
Celebrating Joe Morello's birthday with a free lesson
Buzz Roll Studies: 8th Notes With Buzz Rolls In Joe Morello’s book Master Studies, he details different techniques to develop control on the drums. These exercises develop technique, control, and will help you develop different vocabulary from the different sounds we…
Ringo Starr's 84th Birthday Celebration
Since 2008, Ringo Starr has invited everyone everywhere to think, say, or post #peaceandlove at noon their local time on July 7th to fulfill his birthday wish of a wave of Peace and Love encircling the planet. This year the world’s most…
4th Annual Music City Drum Show
Don't miss the 4th Annual Music City Drum Show this July 20th & 21st, 2024 in Nashville, TN! Over 135 Brands Exhibiting! Clinics by Hayley Cramer, Daru Jones, Greg Hersey, Dante “Taz” Roberson, Jaheim Lee, and Dre Energy! Raffle prizes,…
Jim Chapin’s Independence Week
Save Your Spot for the Free Online Event You Should Be a Part Of! We would love to invite you to the brand new initiative organized by the Open Minded Drumming team, along with Claus Hessler, proudly called “Jim Chapin’s…
Brooks Wackerman | Modern Drummer Podcast #11
In this episode of the Modern Drummer Podcast, David Frangioni is joined by drummer Brooks Wackerman of Avenged Sevenfold. They discuss everything from work ethic to warm-ups, bands, influences, and more. Brooks made the cover of Modern Drummer back in…
