drumlove

Marching percussion is still run by men most of the time. Yes, there are more girls marching in the battery, women drum instructors, and eve...

Early last year, I had an opportunity to put Beetle Percussion ’s Last Pad through its paces. At the time, there was only a double-sided, ma...

Here’s a really nice demo of the Beetle Percussion Last Pad, provided by Brandon Graves. If you remember a couple years back, I reviewed th...

Because I like to point out naked emperors everywhere I find them, here’s this week’s interestingness. First, Meinl’s waxed canvas drum stic...

Several years ago, in the early days of the pandemic, I came into a couple of used pads from Offworld Percussion . The first pad, an Invader...

Sam Ulano was a jazz drummer and drum teacher based in New York. He wrote and published many instruction books that are still in use today,...

Although I’ve pared down my drum holdings considerably, I still hold a place in my heart for CB700 drums from the late 1970s and early 1980s...