Finally I am able to publish a new post in this series. My latest keypal is from Guatemala: Alan Velasquez. We met online, where Alan runs a facebook site in Spanish to help people practice drums better.
Yamaha Drums celebrate their 50th anniversary this year. Guess which company I visited first at the NAMM Show 2017? I got to see their new stuff as well as some of their legendary endorsers.
A new post from a new keypal, this time from Ukraine. Read from Khosh, a percussionist Dmytro Khoroshun. He combines old and new, accoustic and elctronics, as well as various instruments, sounds and styles.
Sexism is as old as mankind. Unfortunately it remains a big topic all over the world.
Where would the drumming world be today without cymbals from Turkey? Luckily we don’t have to think about that. But I was curious about the current drum scene of this transcontinental state.
Let’s have a look at the Swedish drum and percussion scene! My new keypal Axel Fagerberg is a busy, versatile and inventive percussionist from Stockholm, who has all the answers to all of my questions.
Wouldn’t you have been curious too after Sahar’s first e-mail response? I was and that’s why I wrote her back some questions about the life of a female drummer in Iran.
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Driven by passion Don Lombardi founded two outstanding companies many drummers wouldn’t wanna miss: Drum Workshop and DrumChannel.
Guess whom I got in front of my camera at the Musikmesse?! These top drummers: Mikkey Dee, Mike Terrana, Rick Latham, Derrick McKenzie, Karl Brazil, Manni von Bohr, Wolfgang Haffner, Jost Nickel and Marko Dunjak.
Hey music lovers, do you follow my series Worldwide Drummer Keypals? As everything on here, it’s new. Up next is Sahar Shateri. Read on and find out about the life of this Iranian female drummer.