Full disclosure: I play the drums. I play them every chance I get. Although my drumming career has served mainly as a steady education in my own shining mediocrity as a drummer, a reminder that I was ...

Learn how to create a Lil Yachty type beat using Mixcraft 7! This tutorial covers beat making, drum patterns, and music composition within the digital audio workstation. Immigration crackdown may ...

Learn how to write a Kanye West song in 10 minutes! This tutorial covers melody choices, chord progressions, drum patterns, sampling, and lyrical content. Perfect for beatmakers and music producers!

DRUMS WEEK 2025: One of the greatest things about getting your first drum beats and fills down is being able to play with other musicians, or even simply jamming with recordings of your favourite ...

It's always fun when aging rock hitmakers go public with their decades-old beefs. Case in point: Neil Giraldo, husband and creative partner of Pat Benatar, believes that he's the source of the drum ...

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results show that eastern and ...

This year’s NAMM trade show has opened up its doors, so that means there will be a wealth of new musical doodads to lust over. Case in point? Polyend just dropped a hybrid device that combines the ...

Dream Theater‘s Mike Portnoy has created his own drum parts for Taylor Swift‘s ‘Shake It Off’ after listening to it for the first time – check it out below. After listening to a snippet of the track – ...

Mike Portnoy may be the only person on the planet not to have heard Taylor Swift's 2014 smash "Shake It Off," but that's part of the fun as he partakes in Drumeo's online video series in which ...

Winning The Drum Awards for Social Purpose in the Video and Film category was Avon with a Reverse Make-Up Tutorial that aimed to shine a light on gender-based violence. It was developed by Red ...

Steinberg has announced the release of Cubase 14, bringing new instruments, effects and modulators to the next version of its flagship DAW, along with a host of workflow tweaks and enhancements.

Here’s everything you need to know about Beats and Drum Patterns in Ableton Live 11. When it comes to producing new and innovative music it can feel like a massive challenge. How do you create a ...