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1. Once past the £100 mark, every aspect of your snare should improve. Look for a better quality steel shell, or maybe even one in bronze, brass or aluminium. Steel is loud yet sensitive and ...

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Compared to the first batch of WorldMax snares, this is a definite step up, not just in the level of accomplishment, but also ambition. These drums have clearly been designed to compete against modern ...

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Percussion instruments are hit, scraped or shaken to create a sound with players often using their hands or sticks to hit an instrument. There are many types of percussion including: Dujon playing ...

Gemini Soul takes jazz and injects it with a heavy, rhythmic dose of funk. Bass player André Marcel Ajamu Akinyele’s four-string coils itself around the steady snare percussion with a springing and ...

A drummer on YouTube has made a video playing classic Metallica songs, but with the drum sounds of St. Anger. Indeed, they replaced all the drums on the tracks with the ringing, open-snare drum tone ...

drumming in seminal acts like powerviolence firebrands Endless Blockade, the unpredictable Sete Star Sept and Keiji Haino’s elemental Fushitsusha, he’s happiest and most creatively fulfilled when he ...

For years, the mysterious "cannonball" tree in Old Quebec City drew visitors, eager to catch a glimpse of the dark metallic sphere lodged at its base. Some had even suggested the "cannonball" trapped ...