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Meinl Drum Festival Goes International

March 4th, 2009

After hosting four consecutive annual festivals on the company’s own premises in Gutenstetten, Germany, the Meinl Drum Festival is now going international and will be held at the Palace of Youth in Moscow on 6 June.
“Our idea is to host the festival in an international metropolis one year, and then go back to Gutenstetten again the [...]

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Track Of The Week - Rio, Duran Duran

March 4th, 2009

This week I had to break down this track for one of my students, and on hearing it I figured it’d be good for this weeks track of the week! It’s got 2 handed 16ths running pretty much the whole way through which makes it tough to play in itself, but couple that together with [...]

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New Mapex UK website goes live

November 16th, 2008

The team at Mapex HQ has developed a brand new, completely revised UK website. You can check a whole new selection of artist features and performance videos at www.mapex.co.uk. There’s a whole section dedicated to exclusive tutorial videos from top Mapex education partners, plus a full list of recommended Educators for the learning and developing [...]

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Sextuplet count….. which one to use, where?

November 14th, 2008

People very very rarely count when playing, however, I’d advise it! As the sub-divisions get higher so the count gets harder. For sextuplets there are a few counts we could use:
1 T L 2 T L 3 T L [...]

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Round the kit exercise explanation

November 12th, 2008

So now you’ve seen me play it here’s me explaining how you can play it for yourself. Again, apologies for the poor sound quality!
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