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January 1977 - Volume 1 • Number 1
Buddy Rich, Louis Bellson, Billy Cobham, Carmine Appice, Duffy Jackson, Roy Hanes, Duane Thamm TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
Tama Lars Ulrich Signature Kit
The kit shown here replicates the Limited Edition Lars Ulrich Signature configuration originally created by Tama Drums for Metallica’s 1992 tour. It includes two 16” X 24” bass drums; 10” X 10”, 11” X 12”, 13” X 14”, and 15”…
Donn Bennett’s Drum Vault: Stan Lynch’s Mitch Mitchell Inspired Ludwigs
In 1983, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers were on a roll. They’d been steadily cracking out gold and platinum albums and racking up hits with songs like “Breakdown,” American Girl,” “The Waiting,” “Don’t Do Me Like That,” and “Refugee.” The…
Dan Mayo: Breaking the Norm of How Drums Sound
Dan Mayo is the definition of unique, in the best way possible. He started his musical journey at the age of three, and by the time he was six, Dan was exposed to (arguably) the best form of learning, playing…
Realistic 7/8 time
This year Modern Drummer has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Carmine Appice’s groundbreaking book, Ultimate Realistic Rock. In the last few months, we have included Carmine’s beats based around quarter notes, eighth notes, accented bass drum notes, and sixteenth…
Double Bass Drumming Eighth Note Triplet Double Bass Patterns
This month Modern Drummer will continue our re-introduction of Joe Franco’s classic book Double Bass Drumming, and his concept called the Single Stroke System. Here is Joe’s chapter on Eighth Note Triplet Double Bass Patterns. There are many more patterns…
Sound Design Part 1
Sound Design is essential in the fields of musical instrument development, live performance, video game development, music production, theater, new media, post-production, virtual reality/augmented reality and of course, filmmaking and television production. Most of you probably think of sound design…
Bob Moses’ More Musical Resolution Points
In the last several last months of Modern Drummer we have included the chapters from Bob Moses’ Drum Wisdom book on the 8/8 Concept and the Sixteen Musical Resolution Points. These two concepts work together and can apply to every…
The Game Changers Part 2
Welcome back for part two! Last month we discussed several important topics that I felt were monumental in my growth as a player. Those were: understanding subdivision, learning to read music, developing your ears, and learning to write charts/roadmaps. Once…
CHRIS LESSO Life Through Rhythm
Chris Lesso is a renaissance drummer: bandleader, sideman, clinician, teacher… His studies with the great Dom Famularo and the legendary Jim Blackley have helped him form a great foundation for his drumming and his teaching. Chris’ playing with his band…
Carmine Appice: 50 Years of Being Realistic
This year will mark the 50th anniversary of Carmine Appice’s influential book Realistic Rock. Modern Drummer has been featuring some excerpts from the updated version of this book (The Ultimate Realistic Rock) throughout the year and this will continue with…
The Daru Sessions: The Evolution of His Set-Up
Modern Drummer is starting a new series with Daru Jones called “The Daru Sessions.” In these series of interviews, Daru and I are going to dive deep into several subjects. The first subject of these talks is Daru’s unique drum…
Tim Northup: The Northup Drum Museum, Come on in and PLAY!
During my years of touring, I have been to just about every musical museum in the world, and I know (and respect) people who collect things. But the one thing I have never liked about either, is the tendency to…
Ash Soan: It’s All Music!
He’s played on the Olympics with Mike Oldfield, the British version of The Voice for seven years, toured with Del Amitri, Squeeze, Faithless, The Waterboys and Mike Scott, Will Young, James Morrison, Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O’ Connor, recorded with everyone…
