One of the greatest things about getting your first drum beats and fills down is being able to play with other musicians, or even simply jamming with recordings of your favourite songs. Listening to ...

What, exactly, are drum songs? Easy - rock songs famous for their amazing drum parts. Whether they're playing from the head, heart, crotch, or some combination of the three, the drummers that helped ...

Your family members and neighbors may shudder when they first see you bring a drum set into the house, but honestly, it's a worthwhile skill to have. It's great to learn how to play any musical ...

Learning to play an instrument is a lifelong dream of many, and this pandemic, it has been a little harder to secure a good teacher who is willing to go house-to-house for a more direct approach.

“To create something new, we first must love what is old.” David Henry Hwang embodies that line from “Flower Drum Song” with his radical new revival of the vintage Rodgers-and-Hammerstein musical, ...

This was the first time I ever heard timbales used as a main part of a drum part and not just as fills. It’s a constant rolling of timbales all the way through. It’s relentless drumming. The way the ...

2002-12-31 04:00:00 PDT New York-- In the 1961 film musical "Flower Drum Song," the Chinese picture bride Mei Li and her father get their first dazzling glimpse of San Francisco from the portal of a ...

Writing an article here often triggers thoughts about a follow-up or related subject. One classic rock topic can easily lead to another. In a recent article I reflected on drummers usually being the ...