With the advent of drum machines and electronic kits, many sensible beatmakers, took to programming the machines and loops ...

Ben Kweller opens up about "Optimystic," the first single from his upcoming album, Cover the Mirrors, in this exclusive ...

Reverb is one of the most-used effects in the music producer’s toolkit. Indeed, it’s rare to encounter a song from the last ...

Throughout the year, The Drum has published creative campaigns that ... but that’s exactly the scenario depicted in this Beats By Dre spot. In the ad, viewers see rapper Lil Wayne becoming ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Druid leader Arthur Uther Pendragon, center, holds up his staff as he takes part in a Winter Solstice ...

On the classic Led Zeppelin track ‘When the Levee Breaks’, for example, which begins with arguably the hardest-hitting, coolest sounding drum beat in rock history, Bonham’s playing is “purely human”, ...

Acoustic Drum Kits are an essential element of most modern music, from jazz and blues to rock and pop. The lynch-pin of any band, the drummer holds everything together and, as the saying goes, a band ...

The beginner program is for kids under 18-years-old interested in learning to play the snare drum ... learning the tenor drum. “I like the drum because they keep a beat and the other things ...

It’s a masterful example of how he never needs to be complex in his drum patterns, and in essence, his contributions to the song are quite basic. However, the song sounds incomplete when you remove ...