Archive for July, 2008

youtube drumming competition - win a drum set and accellerate your drumming career

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I’ve just discovered a brand new contest, where you can win a trip to Hollywood
This is one just for US Drummers, so living in Australia I can’t enter this personally - but if it was here its certainly something I’d be into.
If you do live in the US - all you need to do is [...]

Who is the most best conga player or latin percussionist of all time?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

My recent informal poll on the greatest drummer of all time brought out some interesting answers - some respondents named great percussionists like Tito Puente and Alex Acuna in the list.. so I thought… why not have a new poll focussing on the greatest exponents of hand percussion and latin percussion that are around?
Please vote [...]

The Worlds Best Drummer List

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

FIrstly, a huge thankyou to everyone who contributed by commenting on my last post where I asked the Question “Who is the best drummer in the world?”
Obviously this is a really tough choice to make, as there are so many great players who we all look up to as drummers and percussionists. Many of you [...]

Who is the best drummer in the world?

Monday, July 7th, 2008

OK - I know I’m opening up a whole can of worms here when I ask this question!
There are so many great and amazing drummers around these days, that its really hard to know if perhaps we’ve missed out on hearing about someone who might be amazing, whom we just haven’t encountered because we may [...]

Drum Samples - Where to get quality live drum sounds

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

If you’ve ever wanted to find professional sounding drum samples - you’re not alone!
I’ve spent many hours on the internet searching to find good drum sounds. A few years ago it was almost impossible - and you’d have to buy a professional sample CD from a music store which might cost hundreds of dollars.
Thankfully these [...]