One of the main draws of an electronic drum set is the plug-and-play nature of their design. Fiddling around fitting drum heads and getting drums in tune can be a struggle with an acoustic kit, ...

Why do producers keep choosing analog drum synths over digital alternatives, even when technology has advanced so dramat ...

In early December with the fall semester coming to an end, two students — Ryan Henderson, and Margo O’Meara — showed up for Bradley Simmons’ djembe class at the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building on East ...

The Djembe: From West African Villages to Global Stages The Djembe: From West African Villages to Global Stages (Image Credits: Flickr) The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, ...

CUMBERLAND, R.I., (September 17, 2024) – Alesis Drums, a leader in electronic musical instruments, today announces the launch of the Nitro Pro, the latest addition to the Nitro series. The Nitro Pro ...

The Jambé takes bits of electronic drums, hand bangers and finger tappers and mashes them all up into one traditional-looking percussive instrument. Its makers say that a special combination of ...

Auxy is one of the most clean and straightforward iOS sequencers on the market, making it ridiculously easy to sequence patterns and turn them into complete songs. It’s fair to say that the version 5 ...

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...

Whether you are planning to learn a percussion instrument or want to switch from one to another, you need to check out some good percussion instruments for beginners. There are plenty of choices ...

The sound of the drums can inform the listener of a song’s age within the first few seconds of the track, and as Paul McCartney explained in a 2005 interview, the Beatles’ experimental drum tones were ...