"Tiger" Bill Meligari is an internationally recognized drummer, educator, clinician, author, and publisher with more than 30 years experience. In-demand as a drumset technical specialist, Bill travels the country educating others in his Tension-Free system of drumming. His book "Double Drum: A Double Bass Drum Text" has received praise from master percussionists around the world, including Louie Bellson and Roy Haynes. Bill's DVD on "Hand Technique" features his proprietary Tension-Free approach along with techniques used by the legendary masters of drumming.

A WFD Champ, Tiger Bill is officially ranked as one of the World's Fastest Drummers in regard to both hand and foot speed by the World's Fastest Drummer (WFD) organization. To this honor, Bill credits his Tension-Free approach to drumming.

Over the years, Bill has been featured with a variety of artists in all styles of music from Jazz with Thad Jones to Classic Rock with Vince Martell (original lead guitarist of the Vanilla Fudge). In addition to his work as Webmaster and original content provider of his popular drum and percussion Web site "TigerBill's DrumBeat" at www.TigerBill.com, Bill is the resident Drum Expert at Musicians.About.com and publishes a popular monthly video Drum Lesson column for the DRUM! Magazine Web site.

He has also contributed numerous articles to many of the major percussion publications including Modern Drummer Magazine.

Tiger Bill is endorsed by Sabian, Promark, Pintech, HansenFutz, Axis, Drumometer and Thumpers.