I just received another email from Bart with drum audio recordings of the custom drum sets that he recently finished building. Bart specifically designed these drums to sound great for Jazz. If you would like to hear how some custom drums that I have built to play for Rock N’ Roll sound then check out this older blog post. Bart’s …
That’s one very large floor tom…
I just completed work on a 20″ floor tom and I couldn’t be more happy with the results. It’s huge, it’s beautiful, and it sounds like a cannon going off (or at least what I think a cannon sounds like, because I have actually never heard a cannon going off.) This was a fun build for me. This was the …
5 Thoughts on Drum Building Safety
Drum Building Safety Tips I have never had any major incidents when building drums, however there are some important safety precautions to take into consideration. Working with sharp powerful tools should make this obvious, but the joy and excitement of working with those tools can make thoughts of safety drift far away. With that in mind here are 5 tips …
Makedrums.com | How To Make Custom Drums
This video shows many of pictures that are included in the book “How to Make Custom Drums” – Over 100 color pictures that visually explain drum building processes! Learn how to build your own custom drums by reading “How to Make Custom Drums“
Drum Building 101 – The Pros and Cons of Tube Lugs
Using Tube Lugs on Your Drums Tube lugs seem to be the lug of choice for most “custom” drum companies and for good reasons – they look great on any drum and are usually made out of solid brass which makes them very durable. There is however some characteristics about tube lugs that could make them difficult to work with …
Mozambique Drum Lesson
Here is a really cool pattern that helps you build 4-way independence around the drum set! Steve Gadd made this beat famous and I highly recommend watching his video too. In this video I am playing my very own custom drum set that I built! You can learn how to build your own custom drum set! For some free tips …
Great Drum Tuning Article
I recently came across a great article about drum tuning technique that I wanted to share. This is a very in-depth explanation of some of the techniques I use to tune my own drums. If you follow Tomas’s directions you’ll have great sounding drums in no time. Check it out the full article here – http://www.drummingweb.com/tuning.htm Here is a very …
DRUMMERS: How to Get More Gigs
How to Get More Drum Gigs I just wanted to share something that I think could be pretty cool for all you drummers out there trying to figure out how to get more gigs. Learn How to Write Drum Charts I’ve been drumming professionally for about 10 years and for about the last 5 I’ve been using a charting technique …
New Drum Beats FOR YOU!
This past week I had a little bit of down time to make some drum videos. I’ve always been fascinated with Afro-Cuban and latin music, so I wanted to share a little bit of my passion with you. I’m no authentic Cuban drummer, but I try to fake it every now and then. I hope you like these drum videos! …