One of the greatest things about getting your first drum beats and fills down is being able to play with other musicians, or even simply jamming with recordings of your favourite songs. Listening to ...

Care to match our obsessiveness? The first reader to correctly name the song order of our snare solo supercut will receive a surprise. Email your guess and address here. U.S. residents only, sorry. 1.

Why beat a dead horse when you can beat a keg with a baseball bat while playing along to a handful of Metallica songs, pretending it's actually the snare drum sound from the band's infamous St. Anger ...

So, imagine being in Danny Carey’s shoes (more on those below) when this actually happened during a recent Tool show. In a video shared by Danny’s drum tech, Joe Slaby on Instagram, Carey is seen ...

My book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers tells a familiar story from an unfamiliar vantage. Moving from Chicago blues to Phil Spector’s early-1960s confections to the British ...