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 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 [...]

Percussion Education Minute May 2008 - Motivating Students to practice Rudiments

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

“Motivating Students with Technique and Rudiments”

In this month’s edition of the percussion education minute I’m exploring six ideas for helping inspire students to practice Drum Rudiments - and ideas to get more technically motivated and inspired students

Click Here to Listen:

Duration: 9 mins

May 2008

How to motivate and Inspire Drum Students to Practice Drum Rudiments
The Point: Be [...]

Learning Rock Drumming - All over again!

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Last Friday I got a bunch of DVD courses from Jared Falk - the guy behind the Rock Drumming System which is one of the most popular DVD courses on the Internet.

I actually bought them all - because I really wanted to know what they were like….are they really up to the promises that are [...]

How to Tune Drums

Monday, April 14th, 2008

How to Tune Your Drums
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Knowing how to properly tune your drums is vital to having a great sounding drum kit. Even if you are a novice drummer, having a well tuned drum kit will make you stand out above the rest. This is a guide [...]

Build your own drum kit

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Did you know that custom built drums are not as hard as they seem to make?
If you are good with your hands, and can work a few tools they might well be within your grasp!
A few years ago I bought some custom shells from a drum maker and refinished them and put all new hardware [...]

Help me find the Top 10 Drumming Blogs…

Friday, March 21st, 2008

OK Drummers - what’s wrong with you?
I’ve been searching all day because I want to put together a list of the top 10 Blogs related to Drums and Drumming on the internet… and I thought it would be a really easy task!
I actually found that if drummers are doing blogs - I can’t find them! [...]

Teaching Effective Music Reading on the drums

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

The latest issue of the “Percussion Education Minute” deals with the issue of how to teach reading music effectively on the drums.
I’ve also included twelve free handouts for learning to read effectively - great for teachers who are teaching beginning students this important area of drum tuition.
To listen, simply visit
http://www.ktpercussion.com/minute/feb0801.html
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