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Me: I think we need a break. Them: We have a break at home. The break at home:

To expand on Bonnies1s advice, you can set up all kinds of metronome tracks to work on your time and subdivision. Try programming some percussion on 2&4, offbeat 8th notes or offbeat 16th notes, and practice playing constant time against them (without the click on each quarter note). The same...

Bandlab is a free digital audio workstation you could use. Then there’s Garageband for iOS/macOS. I don’t know if there’s something equivalent for Android. Record the drums using a click track and see if they align with the grid. That being said, do use your ears first. You don’t need to be...

I’ve played hundreds of gigs with IEMs, and will steer away from wedges if given the choice.

This pedal board mimics the swivel mechanics of the Ludwig Speed King pedal which was first introduced in 1937. It was famously used by John Bonham with apparently great success. 😊 The design facilitates heel down playing, but the lack of the heel plate in and of itself doesn’t prevent you from...

Yamaha Anton Fig signature has been my go-to for ten years, and a not insignificant amount of drummer colleagues have tried buying it from me! 😄 I’ve owned six snares and played a bunch more, but now I’m down to just two. One of them is the aforementioned Yammy and another the 14x5.5 Kumu with...

Bleed into the close mics from other drums is absolutely normal. It can be mitigated to some extent with drum placement, mic selection, mic placement and the way the drummer hits the drums. It's not completely avoidable, and I'd imagine having no bleed whatsoever would make fairly unnatural...

I hadn't bought anything drum-related for many years, but a couple of weeks ago I went and bought a set of felt/cotton muffling rings for experimenting with those super-dead 70s sounds. They sound a bit silly compared to the open tunings I usually go for, but I love 'em nevertheless! Popping...

All of my drums seem to have straight lugs, and I haven't had tuning issues with them. I'm going on a bit of a tanget here, but I've never really thought about lug splay until looking into comparisons between Supraphonics from various eras. The early ones had larger shells which allowed the...

Good advice so far! I’d like to add something not related to recording gear. You mentioned that you could not hear the kick and the cymbals were overbearing when recording with the iPhone. This might imply that you could improve the tuning of the kit as well as your playing balance. Phone mics...

How about starting out with the all time best selling jazz record, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. The tunes are highly approachable for a jazz initiate, and the personnel on that record are jazz giants in their own right: "Cannonball" Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, John Coltrane, Bill Evans...

Here's my latest pie, the now discontinued HBTL ride (gotta love Zildjian's cymbal naming...) http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m5UBLFfAMbk

Try tuning the reso head a perfect fourth higher than the batter and add some moon gel.

I thought I'd record short samples of all of my rides. I'll start the project with my lovely DLR... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsvMNMUY_GY

Here's an exercise which was inspired by both John Riley's and Andrew Hare's works. It lends itself nicely to really mastering longer rhythms, drawing more ideas from your rhythmic vocabulary and getting familiar with phrases that flow over the barlines.

Here's one for rudimental scholars. The Solo No. 42 introduces inverted drag taps as dotted sixteenths and 32nd notes at bar 8. I was wondering what is the proper (traditional) way of phrasing them. So far I've ended up with two possibilities: either play them tight or loose (well duh!). It...

Kumu Drums come out of the box with that sort of bass drum resonant heads. The sound is supposedly the same as with an intact head, but the playing feel is closer to a head with a mic hole. Check it out! http://kumu.fi/en/drumset/406

Our band, Seed Husk, recorded seven original tunes a while back. I did my parts in a bit of a haste, but overall it sounds pretty good. Take a listen and tell me what you think! http://www.mikseri.net/artists/seedhusk.137805.php I used a Kumu four piece (14"x5,5", 12"x9", 14"x12", 20"x17")...

...it's about the drummer. Benny Greb shows how it's done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SziF4mesPA

As the title titillatingly insinuates, here's a recent clip from the basement... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkEGJi2xHi0 Aydee, I played that bass drum triple stroke just for you!