When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. DRUM EXPO 2013: Periphery's phenomenal Matt Halpern demonstrates extended sticking patterns on ...

Iconic musical hooks can come in many forms: a shredding guitar solo, a wordless chant, a sultry sax riff, or even a crafty bit of whistling. But it’s safe to say that no other drum fill has ever ...

The post How to Recreate Phil Collins’ Legendary “In the Air Tonight” Drum Fill appeared first on Consequence of Sound. There is arguably no drum fill in pop music that’s more iconic than Phil Collins ...

I'm not a drummer. And it's a lot harder for me to articulate why one fill works over another than it is for people who've been hitting the toms since they were kids. So when our guest Quizmasters ...

In the Quick Tips series, we serve up quick, easy and inspiring ways to generate new musical ideas in just four simple steps. Often when writing drums and fills we end up repeating the same patterns, ...

One thing that really struck me while putting together this week's batch of drum fills is how different they sound. I don't mean the timing or fill patterns themselves. I mean the timbre of the drums ...

Tony Allen breaks down the five major drum patterns of Afrobeat in an unreleased clip from the recent documentary short Birth of Afrobeat. Production team Rest In Beats and director Opiyo Okeyo ...