Features
Double Bass Legends: A Short History
From Bellson to Bozzio and beyond, these are the drummers who have pushed the vocabulary ever forward in the history of double-bass drumming.
Plugged In
Get A Fat Kick Sound Using Studio Science
If you want your bass drum to explode with big lows and a punchy attack, try this two-microphone technique. And be sure to have a calculator handy.
Lessons
Increase Bass Drum Speed With Heel-Toe Technique
In his latest video drum lesson, Tiger Bill Meligari demonstrates how to increase your foot speed by developing the heel-toe technique.
Gear
Early Bass Pedals: Speed King & Beyond
Check out the Ludwig Speed King pedal, and discover the history behind the bass drum pedal and all that revolutionized its predecessors.
Lessons
Tom Brechtlein: Three Fills For Three Limbs
Give your left foot a break for a minute while Tom Brechtlein offers a few exercises to help you develop fills with bass drum, hi-hat, and snare.
Lessons
Faster Feet: Jason Bittner Double Bass Seminar
Double-bass technique requires stamina, power, and dexterity, and in this lesson Jason Bittner shows how to develop such skills for full foot control.
Features
Physiology 101: How Our Feet Do What They Do
Dr. Luga Podesta tell us the secret behind how our muscles get into the groove and how our double-kicking bodies do what they do.
Lessons
Terence Higgins: Inverted 16th-Note Grid Reversed
Terence Higgins shows us another grid exercise using the bass drum as the shifting accent, but this time taking it a few steps further.
Gear
Yamaha SKRM-100 Subkick Reviewed!
Russ Miller and Yamaha teamed up to create the SKRM-100 Russ Miller Signature Subkick that just might give you that perfect bass drum sound.
