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March 2020 Issue – Volume 44 • Number 3
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Premier 1973 Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies tour kit
The kit shown here was created by Premier for Alice Cooper’s 1973 Billion Dollar Babies tour. According to a description posted on drummercafe.com in February of 2016, “This iconic mirror ball set consists of two 22” bass drums, three 16”…
Rare and Collectible Snare Drums
Northup Drums Museum has over 100 snare drums on display that span over 100 years from the major American drum companies, Ludwig, Slingerland, Leedy, Gretsch, Rogers and others. The snare drum is an essential part of the drumkit and a…
Duet 4
For this month’s Teacher’s Forum, we present another snare drum duet from Modern Drummer founder Ron Spagnardi’s book Snare Drum Duets. This piece is in ¾ and integrates a lot of flam and flam rudiments. The ¾ will nudge a…
The Only Way Out Is In
World Premiere of the Full Length Track “The Only Way Out Is In” In this month’s Issue, we will discuss a video I featured in the January 2023 issue of Modern Drummer. The music from this video has evolved into…
The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming Three Consecutive 16th Notes
In Modern Drummer’s continuing series stemming from Bobby Rondinelli and Michael Lauren’s book The Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, this month we will continue with how Bobby integrates the idea of playing three consecutive notes with the bass drums. Included…
Robby Ameen Playing with Legends
Robby Ameen is a drummer that has never really gotten a whole lot of attention for what he’s done, and he’s done a lot! Not only did he create one of the best drum books ever, Funkifying the Clave’ but…
Daniel Glass Finding His (And Your) Golden Groove
There is no other drummer today who is as grounded in ALL of the American roots styles of music than Daniel Glass. His moniker is drummer, author, educator. Since 2010, he has been the house drummer on Monday nights at…
Barry Kerch: Rock and Roll’s Eternal Student
Some people in the media that say Rock and Roll is dead. But those people haven’t heard or seen Shinedown playing to 15,000 people every night. Sometimes when I interview drummers while they are promoting their new records, we don’t…
