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Chad Smith’s Three Basic Beats to Infuse with Your Own Thing
You can get ten different people playing on a basic drumset, playing a basic rock beat, and they will all sound different. We each have a signature, and that’s a beautiful thing. It’s not “my way or the highway”—it’s about…
Remembering Neil Peart
Part 2: “De Slagwerker” Drum Solo Neil and I often talked about improvisation. He told me why his solo in “De Slagwerker” was so important to him. What follows are some of Neil’s own words, taken from his Drum Channel…
Samba Funk
Modern Fusion Beats Based on Traditional Brazilian Rhythms Hi, everybody! It’s a pleasure to be back writing for Modern Drummer and sharing some of my Brazilian culture with you. This time I am talking about my application of samba funk…
Stick Technique Revisited
Part 4: Alley-Oop The alley-oop technique is what I call a wrist/finger combination used for playing double strokes (diddles) and triple strokes. While it can be likened to the push/pull technique, which is a wrist stroke followed by a finger…
Rick Shutter
“Day by Day,” the gargantuan hit single from the Grammy-winning... TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
John Herndon
The drummer and cofounder of the influential Chicago band Tortoise... TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
Rudy Royston
His new solo album, PaNOptic, gives listener... TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
5 Fun Lessons to Get Today’s Youth into Drumming
If your child is banging his or her dinner utensils around and smacking pillows with plastic lightsabers, it’s likely time to transition your budding rhythmatist to some drum lessons. The challenge is how to maintain the entertainment factor of bashing…
Inspired Instruction
Five Drum Students Celebrate the Teachers that Mentor Them Our online education issue features interviews with several of the top educators working in online drum instruction today. We thought it would be equally interesting to turn the tables and ask…
Avenues to Excellence
15 MD Cover Artists Reveal the Big Ideas That Put Them on the Road to Success The abundance of educational material online, as well as great teachers to mold your passion and enthusiasm into technique and musicality, are massively beneficial…
Covet’s Forrest Rice
The drummer, who’s honed his skills with a number of math-rock... TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
Iúri Oliveira
The Portuguese percussionist has made an art out of creating... TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
Trivium’s Alex Bent
The metal phenomenon has an irrepressible drive to succeed... TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
Bill Stewart
His appearance on the new John Scofield album marks thirty years... TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
