In eastern Turkey, two high school friends taught themselves how to make the daf — a shallow drum popular in Kurdish, Persian and Middle Eastern music. Their brand, Elefra Percussion, is a way to ...

“Actin Up,” which employs a steel drum pattern similar to that of Soulja Boy’s 2007 pop-rap smash “Crank That,” arrived months after his debut studio album, COYOTE. The 11-track project ...

Les Binks, the drummer responsible for Judas Priest’s beats in the late-‘70s, has died at 73. A funeral notice for Binks lists his passing at a London hospital, with some reports adding his ...

Could this song be more fleshed out with its sick and glorious synth and drum pattern? Of course. However, the song doesn’t overstay its welcome and it flows perfectly into the next song. “Enlazan las ...

Without singing anything, just play the chord progression for him to try that drum pattern too. ♪ They say that all the world's a stage ♪ ♪ We all play along in a great charade ♪ ♪ Where ...

E minor. One note ringing out, a staggered drum pattern, tone well and truly set. This is the foundation upon which the rest of the track is built. D. Slightly more uplifting than the starting note, ...

In a video from a recent show at WOMB in Shibuya, Tokyo, a mass of giddy concertgoers reach their hands into the sky. The music rises calmly, until a machine groans and a siren shrieks. The bass ...

Furthermore, a comparison of the effects of such fixed microtiming displacements with locally applied manipulations, using scaled versions of originally performed microtiming patterns in naturalistic ...

Each drum is mapped to a key and can be used with a game pad. Don’t worry he’s got some simple, Meg White, patterns to get you started. Not impressed? Well, tear it down and build your own ...