Here a few great sites to add to your bookmarks. First this week is www.RudimentStudies.com “Let me tell you about what we have to offer here at rudimentstudies.com . This site features snare drum exercises that many drummers use to enhance their sticking and drum playing. And guess what? They’re all focused around simple snare [...]
Here are a couple of brand new sites to add to your bookmarks. www.AustralianMusicHistory.com – This site is an attempt to provide a permanent record of Australian bands, musicians, recordings and technical crew no matter what the musical genre, both current and past. It will have a bias towards Rock and Pop in the beginning [...]
At the start of each new teaching year I like to take all my drum students through some of their basics again, just to get over the Christmas break. This year we’ve been concentrating on building up their “weak side”. The left side if you’re right handed and vice versa. Here is a great article [...]
Here is a quick list of some great MySpace links that I’ve been checking out lately. The first one is by long-time ImproveYourMusic.com contributor, Mark Johnson. The link to his page is www.myspace.com/markjohnsonsolo where you can hear some of Marks’ great new original material. Next cab off the rank is Sydney Guitarist, Peter Pik. Peter [...]
Mark Johnson and I were looking through some old vinyl albums last week when I came across one by the band Avion. They were one of my favourite bands from the early 80′s. I saw them quite often and even had the enormous honour of working on the same bill with them one night at [...]
Here’s a few links for you guys. TabTrax: Tab converter/player, drum music editor, drum notation software. “Instantly convert any drum tab to standard sheet music notation and playable MIDI music. Look, listen and learn from any tab, or create your own drum tracks with the best drum music editor, TabTrax!” Tabtrax is one of the [...]
John Douglas is an amazing [tag]artist[/tag] who has made many [tag]custom drum kits [/tag]and [tag]guitars[/tag] for a wide variety of top players including members of [tag]ZZ Top[/tag], [tag]Red Hot Chili Peppers[/tag], [tag]Lynyrd Skynyrd[/tag], [tag]Bon Jovi[/tag], [tag]Aerosmith[/tag] and many more. He is also quite a [tag]drummer [/tag]apparently and recently filled in for Frank Beard when the [...]
Vic Firth, most famous for their drum sticks has a large range of eductational materials on their web site. Check out their fantastic collection of lessons of all types. Snare drum rudiments, drumset techniques, tuned percussion, you name it. There is enough stuff there to keep you busy for months and it’s all free.
I found a great site this week with a very comprehensive guide to [tag]tuning drums[/tag]. It is called the Drum Tuning Bible and is available to read online or download for free. It is quite a long read but well worth it to gain a better understanding of your instrument and how to get the [...]
Squidoo is a new site that is aiming at being an on line reference similar to a wiki I suppose except that many pages can exist on the same topic. It is composed of many user contrubuted pages which are called “lenses”. The basic idea is that everyone is an expert on something. Anyone can [...]