Part of our Video Shorts series, Musicademy’s Andy Chamberlain gives some ideas on rehearsing.

Would you like to practice playing worship songs with a pro band? 54 practice backing tracks on DVD with animated on-screen lyrics and chord charts. Select any song without either vocals, drums (click included), electric guitars, bass or keys and play along! Worshipfully produced by world class Christian musicians like Ben Cantelon, Paul Evans, Marc […]

Richard Fletcher asks “I have always been in a little perlexed as to exactly how to play the rhythm for “The Happy Song” by Delirious.  As it isn’t a slow beat I have never figured out exaclty what is being played and I am unable to reporduce it.  Although as drummers we all say “less […]

There is a drum hierarchy and I’m at the bottom of it. Often, I meet drummers (perfectly acceptable and friendly people) and it’s not long before I get embroiled in a set-up conversation. This is where my drumming wheels tend to fall off. I know little about drum kits and how good, or even bad, […]

Chris Allen asked this question: “Hi, i recently purchased the drum lesson dvd disc 2, i found it a great help but i was disappointed that there was no play-a-long tracks minus the drums for us to practice too even if we had to download them separately would make it a much better deal, also […]

We had this question from Mark Worthington in the UK “I’ve am really enjoying the Guitar DVD and Song Learner Series. I also play the Irish Bodhran reasonably well. I have noticed a trend of gentle percussion using a Cajon in both worship and pop worlds. It seems to be the acceptable face of drumming […]

Teaching drums can be a thankless task. People tell you they have ‘always wanted to play the drums’, you agree to teach them, they turn up at your door with the ‘standard’ 5A sticks and are ‘ready to rock’. Unless they are talking about sitting in a rocking chair for an hour, expect pain. The […]

The sound man had a benign tone about his delivery, ‘Don’t worry, I’ve done this before – it’ll be really cool. The first part of that sentence is a moot point – I am stymied by a burden of proof – but the second proved to be woefully incorrect and as such I have learned […]