Forecast Drums are the industry’s only purely custom acrylic drum company. Run by Jamie Cross, of JC Drums, and Carl Haffield, of AD Drums, together boasting over 20 years of drum building experience, they have teamed up to show the industry what can really be done with acrylic drums and are bringing...
My Drum Lessons are very pleased to announce that Anika Nilles will be sticking around at the London Drum Show for the weekend, passing on some of her in depth drum teaching knowledge over at the Education Zone on the Sunday of this year’s 2015 show. Anika will be helping those catching her...
Drummer Dave wanders the streets in the early hours of his 40th birthday. His great love is music… from a long forgotten era… and he has dedicated himself to it. Unfortunately, no one’s listening. This is the end of Dave’s dream… and things go from bad to worse until… he is offered a...
Drumstick maker Everett “Vic” Firth, drummer, educator and entrepreneur who played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 50 years and started the leading drumstick manufacturer, the Vic Firth Company, died last Sunday at his home in Boston. He was 85 years of age.
Born in Winchester,...
During last Sunday’s live telecast of Fox & Friends, TV presenter host Pete Hegseth hurled a hatchet to tease an up and coming section on timbersports, missed the objective, and hit a walking drummer. West Point’s unbelievable Hellcats walking band played all through the show, to...
Without doubt one of the UK‘s most extraordinary drumming talents, Mark Mondesir is simply a master of the kit. Born in East London, Mark is largely self-taught, a surprising fact to those who witness his incredible drum independence in action. His career really took off when he turned 20 and he...
So what makes a great drum solo? Speed, or perhaps technique or feel. There are a lot of things that go into the best solos but in the following video we believe its not what is played – but what isn’t played. Its the space and dynamics he creates between the fills that really knocked...
With the TD-25KV, serious drummers can tap into high-end V-Drums playability in a mid-level kit for home and studio. Equipped with a sound engine derived from the flagship TD-30, the TD-25KV delivers all the acclaimed expressiveness that makes Roland’s top-line V-Drums the undisputed choice of pro...
David Letterman (you know the Jonathan Ross of US TV) has recently retired from his day job, but we believe he may be taking up the drums in his retirement. Here is a video showing the bands that he has gone straight to the heart of the band – the drummer and asked about the drums and in some...
Drummer Chris ‘Woody’ Wood is as high as a kite with his BRIT award-winning band BASTILLE. Their amazing rise continues unabated and as you’ll hear, Woody had to pull out all the stops to squeeze his first ever masterclass performance last Year into the band’s hectic schedule.
Woody’s...
From haunting moments of silence to sudden onslaughts of raging rhythmic roar, the combined energy and technique of tHUNder Duo translates into waves of funky grooves, wild solos, and “odd times” that elevate listeners into a space where drums and percussion rule the world. This is tHUNder...
What are your thoughts when we mention the name ‘Justin Bieber’? OK before you go running for a sick bucket just check out this video. Its when the late show was rolling its end credits and who is on the drums with the house band – you guessed it, its JB. ‘So what’ we...
So what exactly is finger drumming? Well its when you use finger pads to set off drum samples and played well they can sound pretty realistic as the video below shows. But is this really a good alternative to an analogue drum kit and a pair of sticks? This is what Xpress Pads (manufacturers of the...
This fake drum video was shot by fashion label Pepe Jeans to promote their new collection of music-inpired clothing. The brief given to the film crew to coach a model that had never played drums before to look convincingly as though she was playing the fairly complex beats in the sound track.Bearing...
The audience at a Green Day concert got a special surprize during a gig. The band got their first drummer up to perform 3 songs with them.They where then inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In anticipation, the band played an intimate gig for fans at Cleveland’s House of Blues on Thursday...
