DRUM! May 2015 (#227)
DRUM magazine May 2015 PDF download. The most fanatical drumming magazine on the planet. DRUM! is an educational drumming magazine. It features artist profiles, product reviews, lessons and advanced transcriptions covering rock, pop and related styles of music. In the 1990s it gained a reputation for its coverage of younger drummers in contemporary styles such as punk, rap-rock, and metal. It was the first magazine to feature artists such as Tre Cool (Green Day), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Travis Barker (Blink-182) and others on its covers.
A typical issue of DRUM! includes artist features and in-depth stories on topics such as playing techniques or new products. Additionally, it includes reviews of new recordings and drum products (cymbals, drums, hardware), short news items, career and health tips, and challenging lessons.
DRUM magazine May 2015 (#227) contents:
- Improvisation Roundtable. A meeting of the minds with Mark Guiliana, Nasheet Waits, Dan Weiss, and Tyshawn Sorey, who trade ideas about this endlessly elusive topic.
- Peter Erskine’s Lessons Learned. Drummers learn to drum from other drummers, but the good doctor reminds us to look to fellow bandmembers for improvisation inspiration.
- A Dozen Groundbreakers. It’s hard to explain how we could possibly know it, but we can hear these 12 drumming legends improvise on some of their most classic recordings.
- Free Your Mind And Your Sticks Will Follow. Stop thinking and start doing with these 12 cerebral exercises, all designed to help you reimagine new ways to play.
- New Drum Sets For 2015. If it was round and had two heads, we checked it out at this year’s NAMM Show. Here’s what we saw.
- Arejay Hale. Mom used to drive the van and sis is on vocals, but Halestorm ain’t no Partridge Family.
- Andrew Drury. If you’ve ever wondered how many ways a floor tom can be played, wonder no more.
- Wilson “Chembo” Corniel Jr. Find out why such artists as Tito Puente, Machito, Celia Cruz, and Grady Tate kept Chembo at the top of their little black books.
- Vocoders To The Rescue! Here’s how to play chords and melodies on your acoustic kit without pesky crosstalk or misfired triggers.
- DW Frequent Flyer Drum Kit
- Gil Sharone adds some bounce to a couple rocksteady beats. Glen Sobel applies the concept of linear drumming to double kicks. Matt Byrne wraps up his trio of triplet technique teasers.
- Matt Sorum. It took one look at a public school’s sad little music room to convince Sorum to launch Adopt Arts.
- POV. Which part of your kit breaks most often?
- You Are What You Eat. Eat this before going onstage to be sure you’re in the zone when you need to be, and no sooner.
- Speed Reading. Between drummers suing their bands and drum companies buying one another, it’s been a busy year so far. There’s the Dinosaur Bar-B-Cue.
- Legal Beat. Which asset could be a more valuable than your drum set? It just might be your band’s name.
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