(available on newsstands May 1, 2012)

MD‘s Historic Jazz Summit w/Roy Haynes, Terri Lyne Carrington,
and Jack Dejohnette

Featuring
Shinedown’s Barry Kerch 
Influences: Alex Van Halen
Get the Best: Queen, David Bowie, ELO

Update

• The Allman Brothers Band’s Jaimoe
• Creed’s  Scott Phillips
• Multi-Instrumentalist Steve Honoshowsky

Portraits
Veteran Jazzer David Calarco

What Do You Know About…?
Iron Maiden’s  Clive Burr

Education

• Rock ‘N’ Jazz Clinic—Composing on the Drumset
• Basics— The Big Finish!
• Rock Perspectives— Burning on Double Bass
• Concepts— Inner Drumming
• Rudimental Symposium—The Official 26 Polyrhythm Rudiments – Part 2: Drags, Paradiddles, Ratamacues, and Open Rolls

Ask A Pro
Gimme 10! with Horacee Arnold
Brann Dailor
Back Through the Stack With Omar Hakim

It’s Questionable
19th-Century Snare
Technology Corner: DIY Decoupling

Backbeats
Guitar Center’s 2011 Drum-Off Grand Finals

Product Close Up

• Meinl Classics Custom Extreme Metal Cymbals
• Canopus Yaiba Aluminum Snare Drum
• Q Drum Company Galvanized Steel Drumset and Raw Copper Plate Snare
• REMO Clear Vintage Emperor and Ambassador X14 Drumheads

Electronic Review
Roland SPD-SX Sampling Pad

Gearing Up
Virgil Donati

New and Notable
New at NAMM 2012