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Getting Started with Electronic Drumkit
Congratulation on your new e-kit! Here we’ll show you how to set up your electronic drum kit for the first time. You’ll be learning how to assemble the drum rack, connect all the drum and cymbal pads, and configuring the module and sound settings. Follow the 4 detailed steps given...
Drum Lessons: Drum Set Warm-Ups
Drum Set Warm-Up Exercises re you looking for simple drum set warm-ups that you can use at the drum set? In this video drum lesson, Jared Falk demonstrates four exercises that you can use to improve your drumming. They focus on hand to feet synchronization, and both single and double...
Be Your Own Drum Tech: Tips for Touring Musicians
While you wait for your carefree rockstar dream to arrive, you’re going to have to struggle with the daily grind of setting up, caring for, and troubleshooting your gear yourself. Over the years, I’ve dealt with it all — and have learned invaluable lessons from working for established artists. These...
How to Increase Your Stick Speed & Control on the Drums
One of the more important aspects of playing the drums is to increase your hand speed and your control. And as with a lot of topics, there’s so many ways you could do this, with anything from studying rudiments, which basically are your what would be scales to piano rudiments...
These 5 Tips Will Change The Way You Practice Drums
I’ve been teaching online drum lessons over the past 10 years, and I’ve always been adamant that I will answer my own emails. To this day, that is still the same (I’m not lying, try me: jared@drumeo.com). I love connecting with my online students and helping their drumming in any...
The drumming wisdom of Paul Cook
This week marks 38 years since the release of the Sex Pistols' incendiary debut album, Never Mind The Bollocks.The record sparked a musical and cultural sea change all around the world, helping to bring punk into the mainstream. But, what often gets forgotten amongst the filth and the fury is...
Vintage Trouble's guide to groove drumming
Richard Danielson tells us how he keeps the soul-rockers grooving."I'm in a band with a bunch of purists"“We used to record on tape and we had to play from beginning to end. I quit music and the computer age came about. Now you can record one bar, loop it and...
Protect your Ears!
There’s nothing quite like the satisfying crack and thump of a live drum kit, the punch of bass and guitar amplifiers, and the energy of synthesizers and vocals over the PA system or powered monitors. And if a little is good, a lot is better, right? Especially if you’re playing...
What is the Difference between Echo and Delay?
Many engineers and musicians use the two terms interchangeably. But if you want to get tweaky about it, echo effects are a subset of delay effects, but delay effects can be much more than just echo. A basic description of delay is that it captures the source signal and time-shifts...
How High Should I Set My Drum Overhead Mics?
Don’t be misled by the term “overhead” into thinking that if you use overheads, they have to be high up or far away. In most cases, the purpose of overhead mics is to capture a balanced image of the entire kit that you can use to complement individual mics. There...
How to pick the perfect drumsticks
Choosing a drumstick that fits your playing style and dazzle your personality when you are on stage can be hard and is often overlooked since most drummers focus more on finding the perfect drum set or cymbal rather than a complete package. Now drumsticks may seem trivial and something that...
How To Pick The Perfect Drumsticks
Choosing the Perfect Drumstick: Aligning Your Style and Stage Presence Selecting a drumstick that matches your playing style and reflects your personality on stage can be challenging. Often, drummers focus more on finding the perfect drum set or cymbals, overlooking the importance of drumsticks. However, drumsticks are far from trivial!...
