Personal
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Drum
Dictionary
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A
detailed glossary of more than 600 drum-related terms.
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drumyoda.blogspot.com
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My drum blog, where I
post pithy drum and music oriented essays roughly twice a month
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Friends of the Drum Yoda
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Century Drum Shop
Facebook Page
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We buy, sell, trade, consign, and repair old drums and percussion.
While emphasis is towards vintage and antique drums and percussion, we
will also be carrying new hand made cymbals and other hand built
percussion pieces.
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MES
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Music Equipment Sales
Ltd. (MES) is a Hamilton Ontario-based music store. Started in 1971 by
Bill Longley, MES introduced competitive product pricing to Canada. MES
has always been known as a source of knowledge. Honest,
straight-forward information has always been willingly shared with
anyone who needed help in making an informed decision about the
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The
Krooked Cowboy
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Shawn Brush is one of
Canada’s finest performers of bluegrass, folk, and country
music. A superb solo artist, Shawn writes songs full of passion and
truth. There’s a sincere, bittersweet quality to his voice that reaches
the listener deep within.
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Educational
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Drum Channel
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"Today, more and more
of your television content is coming over the internet. Our goal is to
provide you with broadcast quality lessons and shows and all original
content."
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Drumeo
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Short for Drum
Education Online, Drumeo is a provider of web-based lessons and
teaching material. Home of Jared Falk.
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Free Jazz Lessons
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Jazz pianist Steve
Nixon hopes that this site will fill some of the gap created by
decreased music department budgets, and he wants to bring the love of
blues and jazz back to America and the rest of the world. Each month
the site receives over 50,000 visitors from jazz students all over the
world.
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Drums Player World
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how to play the
drumsDrumsPlayerWorld.com is a site that is dedicated to offering free
drum lessons for players of all levels. I remembered the time when I
first picked up a pair of drumsticks back in 2002 when the Internet was
in its infancy stage. To be honest, learning or trying to get
information online at that time is a really difficult process.
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Hit
Like a Girl
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Supporting and
celebrating the impact of female drummers, The 2012 “Hit Like A Girl”
contest was the first ever drumming contest for girls and women.
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Virtual
Drum School
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Canadian jazz drummer
Rich Irwin presents insightful videos for a very reasonable
subscription fee.
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Blogs
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Drummer
Cafe
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The Drummer Café is
an independent, grassroots establishment which is owned, operated and
funded by Nashville drummer/percussionist, Bart Elliott.
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Four on the Floor
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An excellent drum
blog from award-winning Calgary-based jazz drummer Jon McCaslin
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Health
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Hear
for Life
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For over 30 years
Rhonda Martin has been a leader in the hearing health care industry.
She has built a reputation in the Canadian music industry as the
reliable source for advice and affordable options in hearing technology
for musicians.
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Musicians
Clinics of Canada
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Every musician should
get to know the people here.
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Magazines & on-line magazines
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The Black Page
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The Black Page is a free online drum magazine and drummer hang out
dedicated to delivering content to drummers across the globe. Every
month we feature awesome drum lessons, interviews with today's top
drummers, reviews on the latest drum and cymbal gear and a monthly
custom drum feature.
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| DRUM! |
Our mission is to be the best source of drumming news and info on this planet ... and others as they become populated.
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DrummerWorld
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DrummerWorld is an
encyclopedia-like website and features Drummers from all genres in the
history of Jazz and Rock - from the past till present times.
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Greater
Hamilton Musicians Magazine
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Hamilton is in the
middle of an artistic renaissance. We're documenting it. We're
promoting artists who are moving forward with their music. We're
connecting talented musicians with the supporting ideas, services, and
tradespeople that will be their key to success in the business.
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Not
So Modern Drummer
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Hosted by Poco
drummer George Stone, this is an awesome repository of vintage drum
information
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Tom Tom Magazine
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Tom Tom Magazine is
the only magazine in the world dedicated to female drummers.
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Makers – Drums
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uDrum
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The Underground Drum
Company makes hand-crafted drums in an incredible array of sizes,
colours and configurations.
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Makers – Sticks
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HeadHunter
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'Stick with the
Groove" - A world class selection of premium drumsticks drummers will
find simply irresistible.
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Los
Cabos
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Los Cabos Drumsticks
are a Canadian company located in the province of New Brunswick on the
country’s east coast. Founders Larry and Gillian Guay chose the name
Los Cabos (the cape) as a way to reflect both the unique qualities of
their home province and the wide world of music to which their products
appeal.
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Vater Percussion
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The Vater brand
started in the basement of Boston's legendary Jack's Drum Shop where,
Alan Vater and Jack Adams hand turned drumsticks for drummers such as
Buddy Rich as early as 1956. “At Vater, our goal is simple... to
produce the very best drumsticks and percussion accessories in the
world.”
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Vic Firth
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Vic Firth began
designing and manufacturing drumsticks almost 50 years ago. Everyone at
Vic Firth is dedicated to the philosophy of creating the finest
products possible, guaranteeing them against all defects, and always
striving to get even better.
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Los Cabos
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Los Cabos Drumsticks,
located in the province of New Brunswick on Canada’s east coast, is
turning heads with their wide range of quality Canadian-made products
and with the way they choose to do business. “We use only the finest
grades of wood. Every dowel is hand inspected to ensure that the grain
is straight and free from any defects.
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HeadHunters
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Why grooves? Feel.
Control. Confidence. Drummers and percussionists sometimes explore
numerous ways to enhance the ‘grip experience’ on their drumsticks.
Headhunters ‘Stick with the Groove™’ has addressed this by
incorporating the grip experience directly into our designs. Drummers
will immediately notice the distinctive grooved areas and unique taper
profiles in each of the Headhunters Maple and Hickory Grooves™ series.
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Promark
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ProMark, founded in
1957 by Herb Brochstein, has always been a family business and so
continues with the 2011 purchase by D’Addario & Company.
ProMark uses only non-endangered wood in manufacturing its sticks and
mallets. ProMark has been the sticks of choice by such renowned artists
as Neil Peart, Elvin Jones, Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, Mike Portnoy,
9-time DCI champion Concord Blue Devils, and many, many more.
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Zildjian
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Crafted to the same
extraordinarily high standards as Zildjian cymbals, Zildjian drumsticks
and mallets simply feel great. Manufactured with state-of-the-art
consistency, they are 100% guaranteed straight. All of our sticks are
crafted from the highest quality U.S. hickory or maple.
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Hot Sticks
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The first Hot Sticks
were created in 1979 and combined many of the features that would
establish Hot Sticks’ reputation as leaders in drumsticks innovation.
Hot Sticks offer a variety of brightly colored models and incorporate a
proprietary dry grinding process to protect the integrity of the wood.
The result was a line of drumsticks that are among the smoothest,
straightest, most consistent, and most comfortable as well as the most
visually unique and attractive in the industry.
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Regal Tip
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Joe Calato
revolutionized the drumstick industry in 1958 when he perfected the
drumstick with a nylon tip that stayed on, didn’t shatter and produced
a sound pleasing to the ear and which helped define the musical styles
of the day with its signature clarity.
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Interesting & Miscellaneous
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NAMM Oddities
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A wonderful compendium of the strange and novel from NAMM music shows.
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