The Thomas Lang’s Master Class at the Leeds Drum Academy was, as expected, a huge success. Thomas Lang spent 8 hours teaching technique, how to practice effectively and how to be musically relevant in today’s music industry. Thomas Lang is always a class act and being the world-class drummer...
Congratulations to the 2014 Drum-Off winner, Shariq Tucker who took home $25,000 in prize money! And well done to the other 4 finalists, Steve Jordan featuring The Verbs, Tony Royster Jr., Matt Garstka featuring Animals As Leaders, and Stephen Perkins with Tim Alexander. Pretty amazing drumming from...
With over twenty years experience designing the best drum cases in the business, Protection Racket have used all their knowledge and craftsmanship to design the finest ever cymbal case, the AAA Deluxe Cymbal Vault. Compromise was out of the question when specifying this new case, which takes cymbal...
See this crazy drummer playing along to ‘Jump’ by Van Halen as he jogs on his treadmill. We think he should have played ‘Running With The Devil’, or ‘Walk On The Wildside’ or perhaps if your old enough to remember the Lucozade advert with Daley Thompson ‘Phantom...
Ex AC/DC drummer Chris Slade is odds on to be rejoining the band in place of Phil Rudd the original drummer. AC/DC are set to play at the Grammy Awards party in L.A. next week, but Rudd isn’t allowed to leave New Zealand as a result of his court case over charges of threatening to kill and...
We here at My Drum Lessons couldn’t be more excited about an interview we have set up with two of the most experienced drummers in the World. Our top drum teacher, Matt Dean will be speaking with both Carmine Appice & Vinny Appice who have drummed for Ozzy Osborne, Rod Stewart and Black...
After working over the years with some of the best drummers in the Worlds including Gregg Bissonette, Vinnie Colaiuta, Phil Collins and Aerosmith’s Joey Kramer, Grammy-winning Beatles fan Mark Hudson knows drummers. And he says Ringo Starr bests them all. “I’ve worked with every great drummer...
Blink-182’s Bassist Mark Hoppus has at last talked about a tweet posted about their drummer Travis Barker – and then deleted – by former member Tom DeLonge following an announcement that Travis was no longer in the band. In the tweet, which was screengrabbed and widely circulated among...
Come out to the Gretsch Drums Walking Tour on July 30th in New York City! Meet Fred Gretsch and take a walk through time in American music history. The Gretsch music instrument brand is woven into fabric of American history. The company was founded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1883 and has been crafting...
Drummers and music fans worldwide are buzzing with excitement about the new live CD track and music video by drum legends, brothers, Carmine & Vinny Appice, titled “Stand Up And Shout!” Drumming demi-gods Carmine & Vinny Appice have both had extraordinary careers behind the drum kit, beginning...
Drum and guitar duo The Black Keys have cancelled their European tour dates after drummer Patrick Carney picked up a serious shoulder injury in early January which we previously reported. A band statement read; “We are very sorry to have to cancel our upcoming performances through March 10th....
Drummer Mika ‘Gas Lipstick’ Karppinen has decided to quit rock band Him. After 16 years of drumming, Gas admitted that his “heart was not in it anymore,” though he made sure to stress there are no hard feelings between himself and the other HIM members. This news comes just a few years after...
Want to know if the drum film Whiplash is any good? Well we have the ultimate opinon of the BBC’s top film reviewer Mark Kermode in what he said about the film on Simon Mayos Radio 5 review show popularly known as Whittertainment. Here is a video of Mark and Simon discussing the film starring...
Its been 2 years since the drummer of The Charlatans, Jon Brookes, died from brain cancer, but the band are determined to carry on to honour his memory. Jon became the driving force for them to make their latest album, Modern Nature. Rather than trying to find a full-time replacement for him, they...
Peter Erskine has played the drums since the age of four and is known for his versatility and love of working in different musical contexts. He appears on over 600 albums and film scores, and has won two Grammy Awards, plus an Honorary Doctorate from the Berklee School of Music (1992). Fifty albums...
