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Legal Beat: Making The Deal

Robert S. Lewis helps us consider three main payment options (guarantee, door, or door plus) available for bands playing small venues like bars.

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Health Tips: When Good Vibes Turn Bad

Strong vibrations pass through your limbs as you play. Some drummers never feel any repercussions (pun intended). The rest should read this article.

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Learning By Watching With Stanton Moore

Stanton Moore tells us how important it is to learn from the live performances of other drummers. He says absorbing it all is most important.

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Managers: Give A Little, Gain A Lot

How important is it to nab a management team once your band is getting regular gigs? A knowledgeable insider is worth a lot more than you might realize.

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How To Play Fast: A Quest For Speed

Dave Lombardo, Mike Mangini, Virgil Donati, and Rod Morgenstein talk about the mechanics and art of playing fast, and the drummer’s desire for speed.

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Bryan Head’s Essential Band Practice Tips

Are you rehearsing or jamming with your band? In this essay, Bryan Head insists there is a difference and suggests how to make practice more perfect.

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Jam Session Etiquette With Terrence Higgins

It might seem simple, but Terrence Higgins shows us the proper etiquette to use during a jam session. Here are his seven crucial rules to jam by.

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Health Tips: Oh, My Aching Shoulder!

Take the advice of our rhythmic physician – if you begin to feel shoulder pain you need to take action immediately, or else put your drumming at risk.

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Don’t Forget To Warm Up And Cool Down

It’s too easy to forget to warm up before gigs and cool down afterward. But if you plan to have a long drumming career, you should listen to the doc.

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5 Tips For Building A Drumming Career

This column is an attempt to answer some burning questions while highlighting what is required of you to get work as a gigging drummer.