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Once again, I’m going to start by saying that I hope that this finds you and yours all keeping safe and well as we find ourselves confined to our houses for the third time… All of us at Rhythm were incredibly touched to receive so many positive messa

Once a proud destroyer of single-ply drumheads, since switching to jazz, David now caresses the drums as softly as a summer breeze. There’s still a part of him that misses breaking sticks all the time – it’s the part that grew up on Cozy Powell and A

I want to share with you the most devastating day in my drumming life. I’ve never felt as heartbroken, hopeless or so close to hanging up my sticks. It was the turning point in my career, and one of the best days of my life. I was 17 and got called b

Liberty DeVitto’s incredible career is the subject of a new autobiography from Hudson Music. DeVitto looks back at his childhood, early years at the kit and 30 years of multi-million record shifting with Billy Joel. DeVitto goes into glorious detail

Carlton top-line endorsers in 1949 included Ray Ellington (of radio’s ‘The Goon Show’ fame) who played a similar kit with staggered lugs, plus a monster 20"x20" floor tom. Established in 1875, Dallas of London, based at the Dallas Building, Clifton S

CAPTURE DEVICE – A video capture device is a piece of hardware that lets you transfer audio and video from a VCR, camcorder or other devices to your computer so it can be stored on a hard drive, whether for editing or just general archival purposes.

“The song ‘I Need A Drummer’ came from a story. I was on the road with Lenny Kravitz and we did a show in Minneapolis, and afterwards we went to Prince’s studio. We went in and we did a jam session with Prince – our band plus Prince, I think there mi

The cover art for Give The Drummer Some features five drummers who have inspired Blackman Santana - Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Roy Haynes and Philly Joe Jones. “I’m so proud to have them on there,” she says. “I would have had more if it were

22"x14" bass drum 16"x14" bass drum 12"x8" rack tom 16"x16" floor tom 14"x161/2" Bell Brass snare 10"x5" Steel side snare 24" K Light ride 15" K Light hi-hats 20" K Dark Thin crash 20" A Custom crash 20" A Custom EFX crash Gibraltar hardware Remo dr

A happy new year to you all! And here’s hoping that this one brings us a little more positivity than last year (and maybe even some gigs!) Normally, at this time of year we’d still be recuperating after spending a week in California, taking in all th

The RHYTHM RECOMMENDED award is given to those products that score seven or eight out of ten. These are products that, although not quite scoring top marks, are strong products in their field. The RHYTHM STAR BUY is awarded to those products that s

With an unquenchable thirst for new drum gear, Tom is perfectly placed to be Rhythm’s reviews editor. He’s not only a longstanding member of our review team but also a lecturer at BIMM and a busy performing drummer. You may recognise Tom as the man b

In his 35 years of playing, Pete has recorded and toured with a wide range of artists from Guthrie Govan to Keith Emerson (ELP). He’s also been active in the world of education for many years, started writing for Rhythm in ’93, has been teaching at A

Last issue was all about sixes and this issue is all about sevens… and sixes! Confused? Well, Ex 1 should clarify things. This preliminary exercise shows three groups of seven played as 16th-note triplets. A bar of 7/8 is used to create a neat, seaml

There are numerous other interesting instruments to use triangle technique on. Trilok Gurtu has always utilised clock chimes to great effect – affording a lot of melodic opportunities on the various bars and spirals. There are also things like the li

Prior to 2020, it was taken for granted that the majority of musicians, regardless of their chosen genre, create music with other musicians for the purpose of it being listened to and appreciated by other people, often with both performers and audien

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