The best practice pad I have ever owned: Meinl MPP-12

The best practice pad I have ever owned: Meinl MPP-12

The Meinl MPP-12 practice pad is quiet but loud enough that it’s satisfying to play. The rubber surface has some give to it so it’s not like hitting hard plastic. The bounce is realistic and similar to a tightly tuned snare.  I bought this pad to use...
Drumming Session for Keeping Fit

Drumming Session for Keeping Fit

Guest Blog Post: Mia Johnson People don’t normally think of instruments when they consider ways to get fit. They’re usually left to the realm of artistic expression. You create music with them and that’s basically it. However, one instrument has proven itself...
The Role Of A Drum Throne For Correct Drumming Posture

The Role Of A Drum Throne For Correct Drumming Posture

Photo Credit: Unsplash Guest Blog Post by Drum Helper Lots of drummers are all too happy to play without much consideration for proper drumming posture. After all, it’s not as much fun to take a sensible and well thought out approach before wailing away at the drums!...
Choosing Your First Drum Kit Made Easy

Choosing Your First Drum Kit Made Easy

Image credit: Alexander Lesnitsky from Pixabay. In cooperation with consordini.com. When picking out or setting up a drum set, a lot of people run into challenges during the process. Unfortunately, this is because they do not know what to look for. People struggle...
10 tips and advice for running your own drum teaching business

10 tips and advice for running your own drum teaching business

Photo Credit: Image by rawpixel.com Whether you are thinking of starting your own music leaching business, or looking for ways to improve the management of your self employed music lessons business, these 10 tips have been written with you in mind. All of these bits...
How to get good sounds from your cymbals when playing the drums

How to get good sounds from your cymbals when playing the drums

Photo Credit: Owen Byrne Hi Hats Beginners often play the hi hat too loud, and sometimes this is down to where they are hitting on the hi hat cymbals rather than how hard they are hitting. As a result, their playing sounds messy, and their sticks wear more quickly. If...
7 drum beats for keeping light time

7 drum beats for keeping light time

Recently I played drums in a musical at my local Theatre. I hadn’t really done this kind of work before, apart from once a long time ago. I encountered quite a few sheet music directions that I was not used to – and a few that I had never heard of. One of...