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Backstage with Eric Hernandez (Bruno Mars Band)
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Zildjian recently sent us a small selection of relatively new cymbals to try out.
FX Blast Bell
21" Staccato Ride
Fat Hats
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I wanted to approach this review a little bit differently taking into account I knew nothing about either the drum or the company when I was given it. Think of it as a blank page…
On that basis, I took the drum out to a rehearsal without looking anything up. After playing it I figured it was probably an aluminium shell, which indeed it is (3mm thick 5251 grade aluminium that is rolled and then riveted together).
‘Producing sharp sonic focus and full-bodied volume for the heavy drummer, StaveCraft snares are a startling addition to any pro player's soundscape. Each 25mm thick shell starts from two layers of meticulously beveled solid Thai Oak wood staves. Using a principal exclusive to these snare drums, an added stave of exotic Makha wood is inserted into the center Dado channel formed by each stave. This "Dado-Loc" joint increases total shell strength by 50%.
The shell is then lathed to a perfectly round 25mm thickness, hand lacquered, and fitted with our Swivel Tube Lugs and MasterCast die-cast counter hoops for added volume and tuning precision.
Yielding solid shell tonal snare spike from a powerful mix of hardwoods, Pearl's StaveCraft snare drums are the perfect fusion of old-world workmanship and new-school performance.’
Full written review over on www.mikedolbear.com
We're covering all the artists that performed in the mikedolbear.com room at this years UK Drum Show about life, inspirations, and in Josh's case his brush with Britain's Got Talent as MckNasty.... and how he got his first gig...
We're covering all the artists that performed in the mikedolbear.com room at this years UK Drum Show about life, inspirations, and in Ash's case in insight into a couple of recent collaborations with Julian Lennon and Tori Amos; as well as what a blessing his Windmill Studio was for the last couple of years.
The most obvious feature of both models though is the Nicotine White Marine Pearl shell inlays around the centre of the drum. For me, it’s an interesting idea, but like it or not, it’s the first thing the eye goes to when looking at each drum. I guarantee that.
Full written review over on www.mikedolbear.com
The line features vintage stylings in the lugs, finishes and other general fittings which deliver a solid overall vintage feel. The drums have ‘battleship’ lugs, internal mufflers - with big, but not too big, adjustment knobs - 2.3mm triple flanged hoops (the kick drums have matching wood hoops), T-claws on the bass drum and a vintage looking Pearl metal script badge.
Also included in the kit package is a bass drum mounted cymbal arm, muffling pillow and felt strip, port hole and a drum key.
We're covering all the artists that performed in the mikedolbear.com room at this years UK Drum Show about life, inspirations, and in Noah's case a very early introduction to drums at 2 years old!
We're covering all the artists that performed in the mikedolbear.com room at this years UK Drum Show about life, inspirations.....and in this case 'How important is it to know how to dance?'.
About Joannie - She studied percussion with various masters such as Alain "chepito" Labrosse, Luc Boivin, Paul Picard, Giovanni Hidalgo and Harouna Dembélé. Joannie also studied in Havana, Cuba, with masters Raul Lali Brito Gonzalez (Clave y Guaguanco), Alberto Villareal (Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba) and Roland Salgado Palacio (Afro Cuban All Stars). She has been active on local and international scenes such as Montreal, Vancouver, Berlin, Hamburg, Bari, Doha and Kolkata, to name just a few, and has been adding her touch to various renowned artists such as Lara Fabian, Marie-Josée Lord and Les Trois Accords.
About Ellen - a German percussionist known for her versatility in different musical styles. After finishing school she studied latin percussion at the 'Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst‘ in Mannheim, Germany with Prof. José J. Cortijo. She was awarded a scholarship to study Brazilian percussion with Prof. Jorge Sacramento in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. She also travelled to Havana, Cuba to take lessons with Tomás 'El Panga‘ Ramos.
As a percussionist she toured with various national and international artists such as Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) and Pete York (The Spencer Davis Group) and the interactive drum show 'Drum-Conversation'. She composes music for theatre and dance productions and she has published a series of 4 educational percussion books for Schott Music called 'World Of Percussion Conga', 'World Of Percussion Bongo', 'World Of Percussion Cajón' and 'World Of Percussion Djembé‘.
She teaches at the music department of the 'Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität' in Munich and the 'Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst' in Mannheim, Germany.
The Super 7’s purpleheart shell is 10-ply, with 45’ edges and an outer ply of fiddleback sycamore. It has four air vents (which help with the volume), triple flanged hoops, Palladium hardware, BDC brass snare wires and comes fitted with Remo heads so it’s ready to go out of the box. It also comes with a couple of cool badges too.
We're covering all the artists that performed in the mikedolbear.com room at this years UK Drum Show about life, inspirations, and in Joel's case his love of one specific item on the kit. 'The most important....'
With the Anthology line, Sabian has taken the labels off the cymbals with the intention that you choose what you want to use them for. Ok, it’s not a new concept but that’s fine. To be honest, with the sizes in the range, regardless of what is intended, you’re pretty much going to have the already established formats in mind anyway and still use them in that manner.
All of the cymbals within the four groups (that’s hihat top, hit bottom, 18” and 22”) are created within a specific weight range, The weight of each cymbal is recorded under the bell.
For the full written review - www.mikedolbear.com
We're covering all the artists that performed in the mikedolbear.com room at this years UK Drum Show about life, inspirations, what the past 2 years have been like and we get to hear and see them playing!
Mikey's last couple of years have meant him getting back to his tools and helping his community build things... like recording studios! His love of an open 'ringing' drum is very apparent.... especially during his opening solo, which is shown here in it's entirety...
The company produces its own range of wooden segmented snare drums that are all individually made in a workshop in Bristol and that involve many hours of careful craftmanship to produce. The company produces each snare drum with its own unique serial number, with no two drums ever being exactly the same.
The drums are made using segmented construction and come in a range of 10", 12", 13" and 14" diameters, and thicknesses up to 1/2”, and a range of indigenous and exotic hardwoods are available.
Now, this 14x7 drum is a stave shelled model made from Iroko and Padauk - the Iroko being the main wood and the Paudauk being used to make the stripes. Personally, I’d never heard of Iroko before coming across this drum, so that a cool new thing for me there.
There is a full written review over on www.mikedolbear.com
Mike talks to all the artists that performed in the mikedolbear.com room at this years UK Drum Show about life, inspirations, what the past 2 years have been like and we get to hear and see them playing!
Femi's story is one of having courage when oppotunities arise; to ask a hero for a lesson which leads to much, much more...
So the kit itself is a Gewa G5 Studio set. It’s a fairly standard five piece configuration of pads, with a set of hihats, two crashes and a ride. The kit also comes with a rack, cables and a hit stand.
The drum pads -
With the kit you get a 12" two-zone mesh snare pad, two 10" dual-zone mesh tom pads, a 12" dual-zone mesh tom pad and a 10" mesh kick pad.
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All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
For a full written review to co-inside this video go to www.mikedolbear.com
All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
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All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
A full written review of this drum can be found over on www.mikedolbear.com
All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
Zildjian says the sizing of each model varies from around 20 to 24”, and they come in both small and large bell variants and are pretty thin.
Under the stick, there’s no real difference in terms of feel; they play just as you would expect both as a crash and a ride.
The sound of the Raw Crashes though is what makes them different; if being of no specific shape wasn’t different enough to begin with.
When crashed, they’re short, sharp, fast and very dry. When used as a ride, they’re crispy with a short decay. I found that they’re also - and this was a bit of a surprise - quite quiet. On a superficial, visual-only based expectation, I was thinking they’d be a little louder than they are, the rawness indicating a possible wild and uncontrolled sound, but there’s a definite ceiling on the overall volume to both of the models I tried.
For a full written review go to our site mikedolbear.com
All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
All entrants must be under 16 (17 this year - due to event not able to happen in 2021) and send in a video of themselves playing. A shortlist of 40 is decided, then the top 10 are chosen to come and play in front of a panel of professional players and music industry heavyweights. Not only do they perform a solo, an accompaniment to some prerecorded music, and a 'live' piece with 2 other musicians (a piece of music that they only heard the morning of the event); but they are also have an informal chat with the judges about music and themselves.
The event, this year, is kindly sponsored by Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, GEWA Bags & Cases & Gibraltar Hardware.
Filmed at Number 8, CINEMA - THEATRE - GALLERY, Pershore UK
The drums come in the following 14x5
Alloy Steel
Alloy aluminium
Alloy black/brass
And 14x6.5
Alloy steel
Alloy aluminium
Alloy black/brass
The Sensitone aluminium drums have a 1.2mm shell which produces a wonderful bright sound with a dry, uniform overtone.
The brass drums are typically loud and bright. The 1mm thick shells are finished in black.
For a full written review go over to www.mikedolbear.com.
There is a full written review over on mikedolbear.com
These four new models are still pretty similar to what you would expect - light gauge (23 thin dowels), medium gauge (11 medium dowels), and heavy gauge (7 thick dowels) premium birch, and poly synthetic (10 dowels).
All of the sticks are 16.25” long with a thickness half way between a 5A and 5B and now the shaft is made from hickory and is finished in a walnut stain,
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The Customs Classic Dark series has been around for a little while now and yet until a few weeks ago I’d never had a chance to play any of them.
This B10 bronze line has a fairly unique look to it, as you’ll have seen. It’s not exactly a raw finish which has been lathed but from a distance it looks a little like that. The series features clean, modern sounding cymbals with that aforementioned distinct look. For 2021, the range has been extended to include some new heavy models and these are part of what we were sent to check out. We were also sent a mixture of other lines as well which we’ll look at in the near future.
In the news section Mike talks about the new Phil Gould album, Slade drummer Don Powell's big band charity single for "we make events", the new Rhythm mag, UK drum show plus lots more.
Mike also answers question about the new Ladbrokes commercial featuring 160 drummers.
A live drum lesson on turning flams taps into a swing pattern.
Plus a few lucky winners win some giveaways.
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14 floor
18 kick drum
Also a lesson on the iconic Rosanna groove
14" hihats
16" crash
20" ride
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