What Is a Drum Major and What Do They Do? Marching bands can be enormous, with dozens or hundreds of members stretched across a field or along a parade route. The players may not be able to hear other sections well, which makes it easy to lose the beat and become de-synchonised. Drum majors act[…]
9 October 2026∙8 minutes to read
Everything You Need to Know About the History of Drumming “Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.” ― Shannon L. Alder Researchers from McGill University in Montreal found that music has the ability to release the feel-good hormone, dopamine. They found that dopamine levels were 9% higher when people were[…]
7 December 2022∙14 minutes to read
How to Get Kids Started with Drumming “Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid.” A lot of children choose to start learning a musical instrument when they’re in primary school. Becoming a drummer takes work[…]
26 August 2020∙9 minutes to read
Drumming Exams in the UK "I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine." -Shalom Harlow[…]
21 August 2020∙7 minutes to read
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Percussion is Not Just the Drumkit. Here’s a Beginner’s Guide to Some Other Percussion Instruments. Maybe by now you’ve cracked the drums. You can nail some pretty rhythms on the snare drum and love to make a racket with the cymbals. If that’s the extent of your ambitions, then read no further: keep doing what[…]
23 December 2019∙7 minutes to read
How Can You Learn to Play the Drums on Your Own? “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..” - Pablo Casals Studying music is a commendable activity as it demands a lot of work, even with the help of a classically-trained professional. Sometimes, though, we can’t afford it, we[…]
15 March 2019∙13 minutes to read
Do You Know of All These Types of Drums? No matter where in the world they originate, any musical instrument that gets beat is considered a percussion instrument, but not every percussion instrument is a drum. To put that in perspective: the Latin word percussio means to beat or to strike – in a musical[…]
11 March 2019∙13 minutes to read
Find The Best Kits To Learn Drums If you’ve decided to take the plunge and learn how to drum, then congratulations! You’re in good company, as many people across the U.K. practice playing a musical instrument. Once you’ve decided to learn a new instrument, such as the drums, it can feel a bit disorientating when[…]
17 December 2018∙9 minutes to read
Learn About Percussion Without Paying A Penny! The ability to tap your hand and be able to make your own music is very empowering and connects with us all on a deeper level. Because everyone claps their hands or taps their fingers on the table to the beat. The beginner's desire to learn drums is[…]
11 December 2018∙9 minutes to read
Which Are the Best Online Resources for Playing the Drums? “When the drummer’s in trouble, the whole band, including the backing musicians, will rise up to help them!” - Daniel Confland While only around 1 in 20 students learn the drums at school, they are one of the most popular instruments among self-taught musicians with drum[…]
28 August 2018∙7 minutes to read
The Drummer’s Guide to Musical Genres “It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.” - Charlie Watts A lot of teens listen to hip hop, pop music, r ‘n’ b, reggae, electro and rock. But where do[…]
27 August 2018∙7 minutes to read
How to Choose an Acoustic Drum Kit "Playing fast around the drums is one thing. But to play music, to play with people for others to listen to, that's something else. That's a whole other world." -Tony Williams Many British citizens claim that they cannot live without music in their lives. If you are reading[…]
16 August 2018∙8 minutes to read
How To Find Drum Lessons In Birmingham Birthplace of the Heavy-metal, Bhangra and Grindcore, Birmingham also had a huge deal of influence on the emerging British techno music. No wonder then that you can easily find someone to teach you how to play the drums in Birmingham. If you are a beginner and want to learn[…]
10 August 2018∙8 minutes to read
How Would You Like to be a Drum Teacher? One has to wonder: how many people learn to play the drums strictly for the purpose of becoming a teacher of drumming? Did you pick up your first pair of drumsticks with the intent of developing a pedagogy that will make you the Mr. Holland of[…]
2 August 2018∙7 minutes to read
Superprof Facts About Drums Percussion instruments come in a great number of variations, as you may learn in your drum lessons. In this post, we’re going to have a look at the different kinds of drums mostly found in drum kits and the best songs for practising your drumming. History of Drums Although there are[…]
3 July 2018∙6 minutes to read
How Much Time Does it Take to Learn the Drums? If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I’d like to do... - Jim Croce, Time in a Bottle Don’t we all wish we could save time for the things we want to do, to prolong the moments spent with those[…]
2 July 2018∙7 minutes to read
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