News: Drum Lesson
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
We have a great drum masterclass on the 19th December with the legendary drummer Peter Erskine. Learn first-hand from the ten times ‘Best Jazz Drummer of the Year’ and explore his vast knowledge, gathered across a career featuring on over 700 album recordings, countless artist collaborations...
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Thursday, January 16th, 2020
At My Drum Lessons we believe recording the drums is regarded as one of the hardest things to master for a studio engineer. There’s a lot of things to set up, exact techniques to get used to and also a lot of tuning to do! The drum kit is the most time-consuming instrument to record, so it is...
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Friday, June 15th, 2018
Drummer tablature is useful for getting new songs right. We have used them in the past to get drum fills and beats right. It’s far easier to transcribe drum tabs than it is to write music notation. Even if you don’t know much about music and rhythm it is very easy to write out drum tabs. You...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
Still in a struggle! After being involved in drum lessons and different practices? If yes, then you should follow this lesson to make progress and take your drumming to the next level. The musical Drummer Marc Brattin highlighted some essential traits required in a great session drummer.
Being...
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Friday, June 30th, 2017
Overnight success is increasingly becoming the only route to making an impact in the music business – write a hit, make a splash and ride the wave. But the heavy metal world is a different beast and headline bands like Mastodon, Slipknot and Lamb Of God have worked hard for years to become...
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
I’ve always had problems when it comes to practising. My motivation lacked, and I always found something to procrastinate with instead – redesign my website, write a blog, rearrange the spice cupboard etc etc. I don’t think I’m alone in this, as I know many people really...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
Finding the right drum set for you can be a real challenge. It’s a very personal decision that should be informed by experience whenever possible. Although you’re encouraged to try out as many drum sets as possible, you can’t play them all, so we’ve prepared a short, comprehensive guide.
For...
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
Different styles of music require different styles of playing, and this is no exception for drummers. A good drummer can be great in one particular genre, but a great drummer is well-versed in several different ones. Each style requires a different approach and possesses its own sense of rhythm and...
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Saturday, November 5th, 2016
Sign up for free drum lessons at the London Drum Show on Roland kits with Mike Dolbear Drum School affiliated teachers! To take advantage you must have a valid entry ticket to the London Drum Show for the day on which your chosen lesson will take place. There are four different sessions with something...
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Monday, October 10th, 2016
For over four decades now, drummers have focused on Billy Cobham’s playing in much the way that a cat eyes a mouse – with rapt, laser beam-like intensity. But the fusion legend is the first to say that music is a communal effort, and if the whole band isn’t working together as one, whatever...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2016
Dynamics for a drummer are different volume levels and how energy flows in the worship set. The main responsibility of a worship drummer, outside of leading people in worship well, is giving form to music. The drummer plays a large role in determining the energy level coming off the stage. Our parts...
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Friday, August 26th, 2016
Some of us have spent a fair bit of time in the company of drummers, and every last one has been a little bit different. That level of independent limb coordination must do something to your neural circuitry. Some drummers hide their strangeness… unless they get to talking about “room tone.”...
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Sunday, August 14th, 2016
As a recording drummer that plays a variety of styles of music, there’s a process I tend to automatically go through when deciding what’s going to work best on a song I’m about to record. I have to think about what part is going to work the best as well as what sounds I’m hearing for the cymbals...
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Monday, August 1st, 2016
Where does the 800-pound gorilla sleep? The same place that the virtuoso drummer plays: wherever he wants to. Good drummers are in constant demand, able to write their own tickets, and play with whomever they’d like. And there are never enough of them around.
A good drummer can find him-...
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Saturday, July 16th, 2016
I find that a big part of the reason I get asked to play drums for people is not necessarily because of my playing. At a certain point you start going to auditions and getting called for things, and the people you are up against for the drum seat, are all of a similar, if not better, standard than...
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