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Last night I saw a classic case of the hunched over, vice gripped, chicken winged, painful to watch drummer. And he actually had a lot of talent! He was about 16, playing open handed, fast and hard but his posture and his technique really let him down. By the end of their set he was flagging and...

liking guitar hero... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsXvQqCwjA Somehow, some clever computer geniuis has added my band to his playlist!

Hey all in the UK... We're doing a small week long tour in February, if anyone is neat to any of these venues it'd be great to meet you! Sunday 22nd Soul Celler Southampton Monday 23rd Barfly Camden Tuesday 24th The Shed Leicester Weds 25th Should be Manchester/Liverpool (unconfirmed)...

I'm just wondering what kind of angle you guys have your feet at? I've seen set ups with the pedals nearly parallel to each other, some set ups with the pedals pointing outwards almost at a 90" angle between them. I've found for me the best is a half way point, where my foot kind of sits with...

Hey guys, my main band SomaHigh are playing the Dublin Castle tonight in Camden, Talking Heads in Southampton tomorow (headline show). myspace.com/somahigh to hear some tunes and youtube.com/user/somahigh for some live vids! Maybe see you there!

My buddy Chris has a load of stuff up for grabs. He offered to me but I've got plenty of my own, so thought someone here in the Uk might be keen. His myspace is http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... d=51169751 Here's the run down, as for prices you'll have to ask him, oh and his band are...

So I went to Drumfest this weekend and saw some great players including Thomas Lang and Terry Bozzio. Both of whom I got to chat with. Terry, myself and my friend spent over an hour talking about drumming being so much more than just part of music. About rhythm being deep rooted in all things as...

At DRT I took delivery of my beautiful MM snare, the snare that NightCrawler Steve actually picked as his in the snare drum olympics because it sounded nicer than his did ;-) It's Maple, 13 inches by 7. The finish is Emerald green and the grain obviously still shows. I wanted something...

So I went to study with Dom after the DRT and we really started to look at open handed playing. So armed with the new open handed book by Claus Hessler and Dom, when I got back home things needed to be changed. Although I've been working in open handed gradually as my kit was, I'd not thrown...

Just did our video, more pics of the whole band in show us your band section. Here are a couple from the shoot. Video set up, Tama Starclassic Performer, birch bubinga shells in Blue Galaxy Fade. 22" bass, 12" + 14" toms and 16" floor. 14"x5" 1967 Ludwig Supraphonic snare. 14" A Custom...

We filmed our video for our new single at the weekend. Our mate Josh came and took some pics of us in action. His site is www.joshuaburton.com You can hear the tune "Lo Fat" at www.myspace.com/somahigh We hope to have a full cut in the next couple of months and can't wait to see it! I'll post...

Just found an old pic that I thought I'd lost. It's from about 4 years ago, when I still had my Premier Artist Birch Heritage jazz 18" setup. Man I wish I'd kept that kit. It was small, light and great fun to play. The ride cymbal was mounted off of the bass drum. I also lost the Velvet...

So here's the deal, a friend of mine is a sound engineer and just out of uni. He's had access to top studios there and has had some great success already getting airplay with some of the bands he's produced. He's moved into our band studio adding his equipment to ours, but the one thing he...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ludwig-black-beau ... otohosting Is that Kosher and if so, what do you think it'll go for?

about a charity gig I'm playing with some friends of mine. The music is mainly jazz and musical fare and I'm really looking forward to it, even though I'm only playing a handful of the songs. There's another guy who's the mian drummer for the band who's playing the rest. Apparently I'm doing the...

Do you muliti task by doing something else as well? For example when working on technique such as Moeller or Freestrokes, I tend to watch the news channels and anything else worthwhile on TV. I know Bill has said in the past he works one hand and plays solitaire on his iPod! :-P

been thinking about getting one for ages and came across this on google. Course, Batman would've been a better choice... http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... e%3Dstrict

I've started working on Latin with my teachers at DrumTech and I'm loving it. 2 weeks in, been looking a Bossa and Samba and yesterday was looking at some Mambo. I love Mambo! I don't have much latin so any suggestions on good artists is much appreciated. I know of Tito Puenté and last night...

My friend has just become single again so suddenly wants to go out drinking. I wasn't all that up for it but ended up going out last night and met a nice girl. We ended up chatting on her doorstep until 4.30am. So I get to bed around 5. I started work at 10am and I woke up at 9.52. Somehow I...

Just wondering what your fave is, can be open, closed, jazz, metal, whatever. For me the best roll of all time is by Steve Gadd playing "Keep the Customeer Satisfied" at the Buddy Rich memorial concert. Technically it's two rolls at 1.10 and 1.26. <object width="425" height="355"><param...