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Pro Drummer Tips: Dale Baker on Drum Transcription

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Tip: Learn how to transcribe drum music! Chances are you’ve heard Dale’s drumming recently.  Dale’s drumming propels the lilting melody of the hit song and perennial summer favorite “Kiss Me,” by the group Sixpence None the Richer. He has recorded for labels such as Mammoth, Virgin, Almo Sounds, Elektra, Epic, Sony, RCA and played on jingles and commercial projects for …

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How to Create a Drum Chart – Why I Use Them, and Why You Should Too

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How to Make a Drum Chart Most great ideas and inventions are birthed from people seeing a need that is not currently met in society and then creating a method or product that meets that previously unmet need. I started using drum charts when I found myself getting confused with song structure, and drum parts for the multiple bands that …

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How to Refurbish an Old Drum Set – Breathe New Life Into Old Skins

In Drum Building Resources, Drum Building Tutorials, Drums, Reader's Drum Pictures by Philip2 Comments

Drum Restoration This is a guest post by Jon Lee of MNI Drumworks in Austin, TX. In the fall of 1993 my parents gave in.  The past 18 years had been a torturous, ear bleeding ordeal for both my Father and beautiful Mother.  I had slapped, hit, tapped, knocked, kicked, and played EVERYTHING in every house that we had ever …