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"Isn’t recording drums a total nightmare? No, that’s a myth – recording drums is actually surprisingly easy": The simple guide to recording drums: kit tips, mic placement and setting up your DAW

Inject some feel into your tracks by recording a real human drummer (no jokes, please) playing actual drums!

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"We asked ourselves, what if we could rebuild the legendary K2000 V.A.S.T. synthesizer, but using today’s technology?": Kurzweil's K2061 and K2088 synths are now shipping

Kurzweil's K2061 and K2088, a modern update to the classic K2000 synth, are now available to order

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“He’s not a tremendously talented player, so when he plays, it disarms the situation. He’s not a freaky guitar player or drummer... He approaches records like a plumber ”: Bartees Strange on superproducer Jack Antonoff

Antonoff co-produced singer songwriter’s Horror album

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“To those that have said I inspired them to start drumming, the first thing I say is: ‘I apologise to your parents!’”: A rare interview with legendary drummer Neil Peart of Rush

“After 40, 45 years of playing, I wanted to push myself and open up this whole new frontier,” he said

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6 drum processing techniques to help you program state-of-the-art beats

Learn some of the most essential tools and techniques for getting a modern drum sound

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"Grohl's randomised fills and relentless single strokes at the end of the song makes this one of his greatest drum performances on record": Listen to 11 isolated drum tracks from rock's drumming legends

Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Beatles, Slipknot, The Police, and more

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Forwards Festival 2025 review: Orbital and Barry Can’t Swim bring the beats, while Olivia Dean and Jorja Smith do their best to make make fans forget that there’s no Doechii

Nia Archives was drafted in after the US star’s late withdrawal

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“There’s a lot of good music left”: Springsteen releases Born To Run out-take onto streaming platforms

Lonely Night In The Park has been a bootleg for decades

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“Who wants to tell him?”: The busking drummer who unknowingly performed a Chili Peppers song in front of Chad Smith

Busker performs RHCP song in front of an audience of one: Chad Smith

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John Bonham considered him 'a god' and Buddy Rich called him 'the inspiration for every big-name drummer in the business': The story of Gene Krupa, the king of swing

Krupa was "a dazzling blitzkrieg of cymbal and snare drum violence", and one of the most influential drummers ever

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“Much like its predecessor, the 909 was also a commercial flop, and arguably more so than the 808”: How the drum machine grew into a viable alternative to real drummers

There's not much early-80s tech that still influences modern creativity, but the dominance of electronic drum sounds stems right back to 1980, and a bizarre series of unfortunate events…

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“How do people do that? No click, he played through it and ‘bam’”: Prince’s ability to keep time when he was recording drums was remarkable, says his engineer, but it also made things difficult during the editing process

“He would say ‘OK, that’s so close, cut it one more time,’ and I wouldn’t do it because I physically couldn’t cut a 16th of an inch without chowdering the tape”

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"Play eighth notes on the hi-hat, kick on one and three, snare on two and four and you’re playing AC/DC”: 13 easy drum songs every beginner should learn

Stop cramming and start jamming with these must-know easy-drum classics for beginners

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"I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard. I wanted it to sound enormous, to grab you by your throat": How Bruce Springsteen saved his career with Born To Run

The Boss spent six months working on the album's title track

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"We had no idea that what we were doing was groundbreaking or revolutionary": Read our classic interview with Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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“Liminal is set in the borderlands between song and non-song (or ‘nong’ as we call it)": Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s new album in their own words

Apparently, new album contains 11 new ‘nongs’ "exploring an intimate and unfamiliar new sonic world"

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"How can you tell a drummer's at the door?": 20 of the best drummer jokes ever

Bu-dum-bump!

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“One night Zeppelin were all going down the boozer and I said, 'You guys bugger off but Bonzo, you stay behind because I've got an idea’”: The genius behind John Bonham’s towering When the Levee Breaks drum sound

It’s one of the best drum recordings in history, but the resulting sound was just as much a feat of engineering as it way playing

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What’s on Josh Homme’s to-do list when Queens Of The Stone Age play Sheffield next week?

You might see him lurking around High Green

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"Sometimes you get to the double time in Paradise City and think, ‘Man, I’ve got to play this now!?’”: How drummer Frank Ferrer powered Guns N’ Roses for 19 years

And why You Could Be Mine was his favourite song to play

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"I've analysed hundreds of players over the years. They're all a part of what I do": Clem Burke's 10 essential drum albums

"You've got to listen to what the greats have done," the Blondie 'heartbeat', who passed away this year told us

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“A versatile set with dry and dark tonal qualities”: Zultan 25 Series Cymbals review

Zultan delivers another extremely versatile cymbal range for a wallet-friendly price

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“He came in, and just on the first take, I was like, ‘Oh my God. I didn't know that a person playing eighth notes could do that much”: How Pino Palladino transformed the simple bassline in Miley Cyrus’s End of the World into something "so much better"

"I just thought it would sound the same, but my God," says awestruck producer Shawn Everett

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“We came off stage and looked at each other in amazement, because all that singing from the audience was so extreme. And I said to Freddie, ‘Maybe we should be harnessing this kind of energy’”: How Queen created the mother of all rock anthems

“I was hoping it would catch on," Brian May said

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“We decided that our audiences would come along with us, rather than it being down to us to feed them a conventional diet”: Paul McCartney on how the '60s avant-garde influenced the Beatles

I Am The Walrus drew from John Cage

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