Drumming News : One of the most in-demand jazz drummers in New Orleans was Herlin Riley, a musician who enthralled audiences with his rhythms and the unmistakable enthusiasm he brought to his art. If you […]
Drumming News : Drummers “rarely get their just due in blues circles,” but Tom Hambridge has long defied that pattern. A four-time Grammy winner, he has become one of modern blues’ most important producers and […]
Drummimg News : Q1. You started young and came from a long line of southern California drummers like Travis Barker, Josh Freese, Brooks Wackerman, Chad Sexton, Adrian Young and others. Fill us in on your back story. How […]
Drumming News : Geoff Herbert wrote an interesting article for Syracuse.com about Nate Felty, a drummer who in a short amount of time has archived what many dream of. The article traces the unlikely, fast-rising […]
Drumming News : by David Levine As rhythm has become the foundation of modern pop music, the role of percussionists— and their set-ups— continue to expand. By the early 1900s, drummers had completely amalgamated the […]
Drumming News : In February 2025, Marc Ferris of The Current offered readers a rare inside look at one of the collaborations in modern drum making: how master craftsman Aaron Latos was commissioned to build […]
Drumming News : By Rick Van Horn Last time we defined “ergonomics” as the relationship of the human body to doing any sort of work, and we examined that relationship in terms of cymbal and […]
Drumming News : By Rick Van Horn Today’s technology has produced its own vocabulary, including a number of terms that are hybrids of words used in science, industry, academics, etc. Such a word is: “ergonomics.” […]
Drumming News : Kassa Overall wasn’t supposed to make a song that night. He was supposed to clean. Standing in his jam-packed backyard studio—drums stacked like sculpture, synths wedged into corners, cables curling across the […]
Drumming News : In this article we will be posting a number of short bits that former Modern Drummer Managing Editor Scott K Fish has posted through the years on his personal blog about Tommy […]
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