Drummer Blogs

Archive of Drummer Blogs

  • Hey, all you MD readers, Lynn Williams here, drummer for DICK50. I’m always interested to know how bands get together, and just how the right group of people make it “a band.” It seems to me that you know you have the right group of people when you don’t have to talk so much about...0April 20, 2010

    Lynn Williams of DICK50

    Hey, all you MD readers, Lynn Williams here, drummer for DICK50. I’m always interested to know how bands get together, and just how the right group of people make it “a band.” It seems to me that you know you have the right group of people when you don’t have to talk so much about…

  • I wanted to tell you guys a little about myself and where I come from musically. 0April 19, 2010

    Season After’s Tim Rails

    I wanted to tell you guys a little about myself and where I come from musically.

  • Greetings, drummers and percussionists around the world! First I would like to send love and blessings to you all, wherever you may be. I am deeply honored to be writing this blog for Modern Drummer. My name is Ricc Sheridan, and I’m the drummer/percussionist for Earl Greyhound. We are about to release our second CD,...0April 15, 2010

    Ricc Sheridan of Earl Greyhound

    Greetings, drummers and percussionists around the world! First I would like to send love and blessings to you all, wherever you may be. I am deeply honored to be writing this blog for Modern Drummer. My name is Ricc Sheridan, and I’m the drummer/percussionist for Earl Greyhound. We are about to release our second CD,…

  • Hi, Modern Drummer readers. My name is Pamela Ventura, and I am a good friend of educator/player Pamela Manganaro, who put me in contact with MD. This blog is a little different from the ones that usually run, but I wanted to make it a surprise for my dad, Don Kidwell, who has been a...0April 14, 2010

    Don Kidwell — A Daughter’s Perspective

    Hi, Modern Drummer readers. My name is Pamela Ventura, and I am a good friend of educator/player Pamela Manganaro, who put me in contact with MD. This blog is a little different from the ones that usually run, but I wanted to make it a surprise for my dad, Don Kidwell, who has been a…

  • As a drummer I think playing all the time is crucial. And not just rehearsing, but playing for an audience...0April 13, 2010

    Jucifer’s Edgar Livengood

    As a drummer I think playing all the time is crucial. And not just rehearsing, but playing for an audience…

  • Modern Drummer Blog readers! My name is Bruno Esrubilsky, and I am a Brazilian drummer/percussionist living in the Boston area. I graduated in 2005 from the Los Angeles Music Academy and then in 2010 from Berklee College of Music with a professional music degree. I also received the 2010 Armand Zildjian Percussion Award. I’ve been...0April 12, 2010

    Esthema’s Bruno Esrubilsky

    Modern Drummer Blog readers! My name is Bruno Esrubilsky, and I am a Brazilian drummer/percussionist living in the Boston area. I graduated in 2005 from the Los Angeles Music Academy and then in 2010 from Berklee College of Music with a professional music degree. I also received the 2010 Armand Zildjian Percussion Award. I’ve been…

  • I grew up in Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C., took piano lessons from age five to eleven, switched to drums in the sixth grade...0April 9, 2010

    Vinson Valega: New York City Jazzer

    I grew up in Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C., took piano lessons from age five to eleven, switched to drums in the sixth grade…

  • I started playing drums at the age of eight, when my father introduced me to the Beatles.0April 7, 2010

    Bigger Lights’s Ryan Seaman

    I started playing drums at the age of eight, when my father introduced me to the Beatles.

  • I have played with a wide range of musicians from Lenny Kravitz to Cab Calloway and I have worked in many different genres...0April 6, 2010

    Tobias Gebb – Free At Last

    I have played with a wide range of musicians from Lenny Kravitz to Cab Calloway and I have worked in many different genres…

  • What’s up, Modern Drummer readers. I would first like to thank Modern Drummer for giving me the opportunity to write this blog. My name is Frank Jargiello, I’m from Scranton, Pennsylvania, I’m twenty-one, and I’ve been playing drums since I was fourteen. My first band was called Hope Fails You. We were together for about...1April 5, 2010

    Ekotren’s Frank Jargiello

    What’s up, Modern Drummer readers. I would first like to thank Modern Drummer for giving me the opportunity to write this blog. My name is Frank Jargiello, I’m from Scranton, Pennsylvania, I’m twenty-one, and I’ve been playing drums since I was fourteen. My first band was called Hope Fails You. We were together for about…

  • Hello, Modern Drummer readers! I know everyone who writes a blog on here starts it out the same way, but honestly how else are you supposed to do it? I’m sure most of you are scratching your head wondering just who I am; well, obviously I am not a guitarist. I’m a drummer who is here to share a little more knowledge, pass of a few more tricks, and maybe inspire some of you to do great things...0April 5, 2010

    L.A. Freelancer Nick Mason

    Hello, Modern Drummer readers! I know everyone who writes a blog on here starts it out the same way, but honestly how else are you supposed to do it? I’m sure most of you are scratching your head wondering just who I am; well, obviously I am not a guitarist. I’m a drummer who is here to share a little more knowledge, pass of a few more tricks, and maybe inspire some of you to do great things…

  • Hey, <i>Modern Drummer</i> heads! My name is Chris Peacock and I’m addicted to drums. I’ve been playing for twenty-years and I started at the age of twelve. I’ve studied with Ralph Humphrey, Joe Porcaro, and Mike Shapiro and have worked in all sorts of musical situations including rock, pop, jazz, electronica, caleigh, and orchestral....0April 1, 2010

    Drummer/Author Chris Peacock

    Hey, Modern Drummer heads! My name is Chris Peacock and I’m addicted to drums. I’ve been playing for twenty-years and I started at the age of twelve. I’ve studied with Ralph Humphrey, Joe Porcaro, and Mike Shapiro and have worked in all sorts of musical situations including rock, pop, jazz, electronica, caleigh, and orchestral….

  • G’day to all the MD online readers, it is a pleasure to be writing for you, and to be given the opportunity by MD in which to do so is very exciting. Allow me introduce myself; my name is Steve Judd, I am twenty-seven years old, and I'm the drummer of Australian prog-rock band Karnivool. Yes, I am Australian. No, I do not own a kangaroo...0March 30, 2010

    Steve Judd of Karnivool

    G’day to all the MD online readers, it is a pleasure to be writing for you, and to be given the opportunity by MD in which to do so is very exciting. Allow me introduce myself; my name is Steve Judd, I am twenty-seven years old, and I’m the drummer of Australian prog-rock band Karnivool. Yes, I am Australian. No, I do not own a kangaroo…

  • Hello, humans. My name is Jonathan Syverson, and I’ve never actually written any sort of blog. But as anyone who knows me would tell you, I absolutely LOVE talking about myself, and since Modern Drummer was kind enough to come asking, it would be my pleasure to oblige. Back in the dark ages of 1993,...0March 29, 2010

    Daughters’ Jonathan Syverson

    Hello, humans. My name is Jonathan Syverson, and I’ve never actually written any sort of blog. But as anyone who knows me would tell you, I absolutely LOVE talking about myself, and since Modern Drummer was kind enough to come asking, it would be my pleasure to oblige. Back in the dark ages of 1993,…

  • Modern Drummer…here we are at last. You, and me…. My name is Chad McKinsey, and I’m the drummer for the band the Suicide Denial. This makes me go back and think of the very first time I received any sort of percussion instrument, which was a Yamaha DD-50 drum pad system, for Christmas in seventh...0March 26, 2010

    Chad McKinsey of The Suicide Denial

    Modern Drummer…here we are at last. You, and me…. My name is Chad McKinsey, and I’m the drummer for the band the Suicide Denial. This makes me go back and think of the very first time I received any sort of percussion instrument, which was a Yamaha DD-50 drum pad system, for Christmas in seventh…

  • Drum instructors can have difficulties with managing their lesson environment when teaching special-needs students. This includes both individual and group lessons...0March 24, 2010

    Pat Gesualdo: Maintaining Control In Difficult Drum Lessons

    Drum instructors can have difficulties with managing their lesson environment when teaching special-needs students. This includes both individual and group lessons…

  • Hello, MD readers, Mark Schulman here. This has been an incredible life so far! I gotta tell you about some great stuff. First of all, touring and recording with Pink has been such an incredible journey musically, career-wise, energetically, and educationally...0March 22, 2010

    Pink’s Mark Schulman

    Hello, MD readers, Mark Schulman here. This has been an incredible life so far! I gotta tell you about some great stuff. First of all, touring and recording with Pink has been such an incredible journey musically, career-wise, energetically, and educationally…

  • My band Honor Society is headed back out on tour, which starts March 19 in Tampa, Florida...0March 19, 2010

    Honor Society’s Alexander Noyes

    My band Honor Society is headed back out on tour, which starts March 19 in Tampa, Florida…

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