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 songs. Listening to ...

Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20. Odara hails from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and now calls Oakland home. The drum master teaches Brazilian ...

This was the first time I ever heard timbales used as a main part of a drum part and not just as fills. It’s a constant rolling of timbales all the way through. It’s relentless drumming. The way the ...

The music of Norwegian singer and multi-instrumentalist Farao (née Kari Jahnsen) is built on rhythmic intricacy. Grooves drift in and out of songs, unspooling underneath meticulously arranged ...

Drum breaks: Those small patches of space within a song where the singer shuts up, the guitarist backs off, the bass rumbles down, and the percussionist is given a moment or two to shine. Before the ...

We already knew AIs could write jazz and death metal tracks on their own, and even create infinite remixes of others’ songs. Now, Sony has created an AI that can collaborate with other musicians, ...