Snare Talk: Drumming Pros Weigh In On Sound, Feel & Tuning

BY ANDY DOERSCHUK & PHIL HOOD | PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE HACALA | FROM THE AUGUST 2015 ISSUE OF DRUM! There are few places on Earth where you can sit down wi... Read More

Drummer’s Resource Host Nick Ruffini on Starting, Maintaining, and Learning From His Popular Podcast

BY AJ DONAHUE | FROM THE JUNE 2016 ISSUE OF DRUM! Nick Ruffini is a doer, and he wants you to be a doer too. He’s spent time as a touring drummer, a restaurateur... Read More

The Genius Of Jeff Porcaro’s Drum Parts For Toto’s ‘Rosanna’

BY DANIEL GLASS I’ve decided to celebrate my 50th “Moment In History” column by focusing on Jeff Porcaro, a drummer who left us 25 years ago, but is still rega... Read More

His Las Vegas: Drummer Bobby Morris Lived The 20th Century Of Music

BY PHIL HOOD Let’s get one thing straight from the start: Bobby Morris, the drummer played with more stars, in more different styles of music, than perhaps anyo... Read More

Remembering Freddie Gruber: An Audio History With Bruce Becker

BY PHIL HOOD Freddie Gruber would have turned 92 years old this year on May 27. Freddie was a legendary teacher in the drum industry---an obscure legend, but a... Read More

Yoda’s Drumming Secrets: Nine Questions With Bruce Becker

BY PHIL HOOD Freddie Gruber was a drum teaching legend. Over a career that spanned almost half a century, until his death in 2011, he became known in the drummi... Read More

4 Things You Didn’t Know About Hal Blaine

BY DANIEL GLASS | FROM THE FALL 2018 ISSUE OF DRUM! You may know Hal Blaine as the legendary hit-making studio drummer from the Los Angeles recording scene of ... Read More

#WCW: Drummer and Historian Kelli Rae Tubbs Offers Fascinating Glimpses into Sound Worlds of the Past

Kelli Rae Tubbs is a Jill-of-all-trades. She drums (jazz, pop/rock, blues, country, and other genres), sings, refurbishes antique instruments, writes (she’s cur... Read More

A Brief History Of The Tom Tom

BY DANIEL GLASS | FROM DRUM'S SUMMER 2018 ISSUE Think you know everything about tom toms? Think again. Here’s a peek at the fascinating story behind&nb... Read More

Streaming The Beat: Top Drumming Podcasts Right Now

BY PHIL HOOD Podcasts have grown steadily in popularity since launching more than a decade ago. But the growth has been slow and steady rather than fast and ov... Read More