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March April 1979 - Volume 3 • Number 2
Phil Collins, Joe Morello, Alphonse Mouzon, David Garibaldi, Butch Miles, Lenny DiMuzio, Milk Balter TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
January February 1979 - Volume 3 • Number 1
Bill Bruford, Max Roach, Les DeMerle, Ed Soph TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
July 1978 - Volume 2 • Number 3
Ed Shaughnessy, John Guerin, Russ Kunkel, Joe Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Gadd TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
April 1978 - Volume 2 • Number 2
Carmine Appice, Mel Lewis, Jack DeJohnette TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
January 1978 - Volume 2 • Number 1
Tony Williams, Larrie Londin, David Garibaldi, Peter Magadini TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
April 1977 - Volume 1 • Number 2
Roy Burns, Ed Soph, Clem DeRosa, Jay Corre, Fred Wickstrom, Joe Morello TO READ THE FULL STORY: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS LOG IN
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…
