Gift for a Percussionist

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

A Special offer from the Fun Music Company Do you know someone who was given, or bought in a strange moment of weakness a Djembe, pair of bongos or congas, but has never got around to having lessons? Possibly everyone knows someone like that – I know I do! Thats why we’ve put together a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Drum Ensemble Sheet Music

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I’ve just launched another package offer from KT Percussion In this one I’ve put together the five pieces which I believe are most useful in getting a drum ensemble going in your school. I did this over and over again at several schools. I found that if I started with something that got the kids [...]

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 [...]