Drummers
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Drummer Blog: Matt Zebroski
Okay! So it’s about time to start promoting The Flail: Live At Smalls, our second live recording and third record overall. It’s been pretty hectic finishing/mixing/mastering as well as getting all of the artwork finished in time for the shows,…
Patrick Berkery
When your marching orders for a session include learning an ABBA album track, Journey's "Wheel In The Sky," The Monotones' oldie "The Book Of Love," and a shape-note singing field recording with no discernable tempo called "Sermon On The Mount,"…
Andrew Hernandez
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am a huge MMA fan. (I skipped Maryland Death Festival to watch BJ Penn vs. Sean Sherk!) Now, I'm a drummer, not a competitive combatant in the UFC or another organization. But…
Chris "Gartdrumm" Gartmann
The resurgence of progressive rock has opened the door for younger drummers to rediscover the more technically challenging aspects of this classic art rock culture. The Woodstock, New York–based prog-pop group 3 is on the rise, and has tapped into…
Jeremy Spencer of Five Finger Death Punch
So, we just finished our tour and we're back home for a few weeks before embarking on the Mayhem tour with Slipknot. We completed a six-week run with Disturbed, and it all seems like a blur. Sold-out show after sold-out…
An Interview with Brian Reitzell
by Adam Budofsky Though Brian Reitzell is known in some circles as a drummer first, he maintains a “second” career as a film music producer, choosing and in many cases composing and recording soundtrack music to many of the most…
Aaron Solowoniuk of Billy Talent Tour Blog
It was the beginning of February, and I’d just shoveled my driveway for the second time when I got the message about a tour offer in April. "My Chemical Romance would like you to be main support during their final…
Seven Antonopoulos
Hello, all in cyberspace. I'm sitting in the front lounge of our bus. We're in a parking lot in front of the Holiday Inn on a day off here in somewhat beautiful Marietta, Ohio. I'm watching CNN with no volume…
Drummer Blog: Karl Latham
Hello to all the drummers, modern and otherwise! This has been an interesting year for me so far, with lots of cool stuff going on. It started with a NAMM trip and great hangs with Freddy Studer, Ryan Kreiger, Gerry…
Chad Szeliga
Making grooves “pop” is Chad Szeliga’s purpose. The drummer joined Breaking Benjamin for 2006’s Phobia, and his experimentation with jazz, bebop, and fusion helped him pepper a huge modern rock record with incredibly tasty nuances. “Listen to Vinnie Paul,” says…
Rexsell Hardy Jr. Growing up in Chicago
Rexsell Hardy Jr. came up in Chicago’s Gospel scene and started out playing drums in his grandfather’s church when he was just five years old. By age six he was playing around Chicago with his father’s Gospel group, The Hardy…
Dave Witte
With the coming of the new year, I had a bunch of habits and routines I wanted to refine or correct, drumming being the most important. But I recently got an XBOX 360, and drumming kinda took the back seat…
Ryan MacMillan of Matchbox Twenty
Over the past ten years, Matchbox Twenty sold over 28 million records, including three multi-platinum albums and a string of hit singles. Their new two-CD collection, Exile On Mainstream, contains their greatest hits plus six brand-new songs featuring recently arrived…
Brian Blade: Always Be Reacting
by Ken Micallef “I’m always trying to tune in to what the other musicians are sending out, and then reacting to that as quickly as possible. If I’m thinking when I’m on the bandstand, I know I’m in trouble.”…
