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“How do people do that? No click, he played through it and ‘bam’”: Prince’s ability to keep time when he was recording drums was remarkable, says his engineer, but it ...

He would say ‘OK, that’s so close, cut it one more time,’ and I wouldn’t do it because I physically couldn’t cut a 16th of an ...
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"Play eighth notes on the hi-hat, kick on one and three, snare on two and four and you’re playing AC/DC”: 13 easy drum songs every beginner should learn

One of the greatest things about getting your first drum beats and fills down is being able to play with other musicians, or ...
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"I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard. I wanted it to sound enormous, to grab you by your throat": How Bruce Springsteen saved his career wit…

“I had these enormous ambitions,” he said. “I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard. I wanted it to ...
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“Much like its predecessor, the 909 was also a commercial flop, and arguably more so than the 808”: How the drum machine grew into a viable alternative to real drummers

There's not much early-80s tech that still influences modern creativity, but the dominance of electronic drum sounds stems ...
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“Liminal is set in the borderlands between song and non-song (or ‘nong’ as we call it)": Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s new album in their own words

“Liminal is set in the borderlands between song and non-song (or ‘nong’ as we call it), where the listener is exploring an ...
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"We had no idea that what we were doing was groundbreaking or revolutionary": Read our classic interview with Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

Peart actually reached out to Blaine when he published his beautifully reflective autobiography, Ghost Rider. Speaking to ...
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“One night Zeppelin were all going down the boozer and I said, 'You guys bugger off but Bonzo, you stay behind because I've got an idea’”: The genius behind John Bon…

It’s one of the best drum recordings in history, but the resulting sound was just as much a feat of engineering as it way ...
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"How can you tell a drummer's at the door?": 21 of the best drummer jokes ever

We trade them and e-mail them to one another. The more the merrier. And so, with that in mind, MusicRadar has compiled the 23 ...
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“Each guitar includes a 40th-anniversary certificate hand-signed by Paul Reed Smith”: PRS swaps maple for mango to give its flagship Custom 24 an eye-popping satin nit…

PRS Guitars has spec’d up another immaculate high-end electric guitar to celebrate its 40th anniversary, refreshing its ...
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“I was playing the Fender Strat that Jimi Hendrix gave me. We wound up plugging the guitar straight into the board. That’s why it’s such a clean tone on that track ...

“We were doing that riff and cracking up laughing the whole time”: Zakk Wylde on how a “joke” riff won Ozzy Osbourne his ...
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“Fender Designed alnico pickups, vintage-tinted gloss neck finishes, and nickel-plated hardware for an authentic old-school vibe”: Squier channels the Fender archive for 1…

You know the drill, people... we've got Strats, Teles, a Jazzmaster and a Duo-Sonic, and refreshed basses in Squier's ...
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“His influence is referenced by many contemporary drummers and he has no doubt spawned his fair share of copyists”: 6 of the most inspirational drummers of all time

Welcome to MusicRadar’s Drums Week! To kick things off, we’re spotlighting some of the most consequential sticksmen of all ...