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...
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...
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...
How do you know if there’s a drummer at your front door? A: He knocks three times then comes in late. Badoom tish! The perennial butt of countless muso-jokes, drummers have long been the source of morbidly outlandish legend, from tragicomic screen-gags about the Thamesmen’s timekeeper dying in...
My Drum Lessons is pleased to be able to offer our teachers and their students a Taiko drumming course. This is an energetic, physical and highly choreographed art form which has thrilled audiences worldwide. Originally from Japan, this traditional folk art is developing and spreading as a modern...
This great drummer video shows you how to do 14 cool drum stick tricks. These drum lessons include how to to an Outward Twirl, an Inward Twirl, Fingers Twirl, Half Fingers Twirl, Conventional to Traditional, a Half Toss, a Full Toss, Inverted Wrist Catch, Stick Bounce, Toss & Catch Behind Back,...
Pink Floyd drummer has said that technology giant Apple is killing music sales and bands from making any money. Mason has said “Apple sent the music industry over to the dark side… of the moon. Be it John Mayer or U2, Apple’s always been a brand that’s both embraced — and been embraced...
Star of the new drumming film Whiplash Miles Teller has some advice for you – become a drummer! Seriously. The Fantastic Four star, who plays a talented and dedicated jazz drummer in new movie Whiplash, told us that percussionists are in high demand in muso circles. “If you have a drum...
My Drum Lessons knows that despite all the jokes, you can’t have a good band with a bad drummer and after years of being the butt of musicians’ jokes (Q: How do you know a drummer’s at the door? A: The knocking speeds up/He doesn’t know when to come in), at last the figure...
Drummer Dylan Howe, son of YES guitar legend Steve Howe, has recorded a radical new take on the instrumental cuts from David Bowie’s 1977 albums ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’. ‘Subterranean’ is Dylan Howe’s first studio album in ten years. It is made up of his arrangements...
The Darkness have announced that Emily Dolan Davies is their new drummer and are planning to release a new album in March 2015. Davies was on the recording of The Darkness’s upcoming album, tentatively titled ‘Cliffhanger,’ and frontman Justin Hawkins is excited about their new female addition....
