Daniel Glass is an award-winning drummer, author, historian and educator. He is widely recognized as one of today's foremost authorities on classic American drumming. A member of the pioneering swing group Royal Crown Revue since 1994, Daniel has recorded and performed all over the world with many top artists, including Brian Setzer, Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli and KISS frontman Gene Simmons For the past two years, he has been voted one of the top five R&B drummers in the world by readers of Modern Drummer and DRUM magazine.

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In this podcast I talk to Steve Smith about his new book "Roots of Rock Drumming" (Hudson Music), practice concepts, rhythmic singing (konnakol), drum art and more.

Over the past 35 years Steve has toured and recorded with some of the biggest names in jazz and rock - appearing on recordings that have sold over 100 million copies worldwide - including Journey, Bryan Adams, Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, Zucchero and Jean-Luc Ponty.

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Mover has recorded and toured with artists ranging from Joe Satriani and Alice Cooper to Aretha Franklin.  He also owned and ran a major studio in New York for many years and now owns and edits the best drum magazine out there - www.drumheadmag.com

In this podcast episode he shares how it all came about.  It's a long one but a good one, so grab yourself a coffee and enjoy!

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In this interview I ask Ed how he came up with the idea for the Thumb Thang and what is involved in bringing a product to market.

If you'd like to get your own Thumb Thang (and who wouldn't?) then head to the Kickstarter project and make your pledge here.

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Dan is a great drummer in a great band.

In this interview I ask him how he ended up recording an album in LA, getting a cool music video made, and writing catchy songs.

If you enjoy the songs in the podcast you can buy Desolate on iTunes here

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Lee and I grew up pretty close to each other and have played in a lot of the same bands.

In this podcast I talk to him about how he got started and his progression towards teaching drums.

You'll find out more about Lee on his website www.leedaviesdrums.co.uk

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In this podcast Joe and Jeff talk about bass drum technique and practice routines.

This is part of a series of shorter podcasts where we discuss various aspects of drumming.

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In this podcast Joe and Jeff talk about reading music.  How good do you need to be and what kind of gigs require reading these days?

This is intended to be the first in a series of shorter podcasts where we discuss various aspects of drumming.

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Dil Davies is half of Porter and Davies (porteranddavies.co.uk) the company behind the incredible BC2 and Gigster drum thrones.

I bought one of these shortly after Gavin Harrison gave it a rave review.  I tried it out for 20 minutes and bought it then and there.  It's the best purchase I've made in the last 10 years.

In this interview I talk to Dil about his drumming career and how the idea for the BC2 was born.read more

Nick D'Virgilio is an American drummer and multi-instrumentalist musician, often referred to as NDV, best known as a former member of the progressive rock band Spock's Beard. He was also one of two drummers chosen to replace Phil Collins in Genesis on the Calling All Stations album.read more