Sonor Snares @ 2013 Winter NAMM

Sonor solicited ingenious design ideas from uber-hot prog rocker endorser Gavin Harrison for the impressive trio of new Protean Series snare drums.

Features

Gavin Harrison’s Top 10 Career Tips

Experience can only be earned, but prog giant Gavin Harrison provides a shortcut by sharing his knowledge about being a professional drummer.

News

David Letterman Revisists Drum Solo Week

How come nobody called me?

Lessons

Chops Buster: Gavin Harrison’s Hot Licks

Through his excellent drumming books and DVD, Gavin Harrison has made a mission of teaching drummers how to play polyrhythms, beat displacements, and metric modulations, which collectively will confuse the hell out of your bandmates even as you come down on the 1. If you’ve never heard Harrison play, you might assume from the last sentence that his drumming would be self-indulgent and busy, as he endlessly screws around with the beat. You couldn’t be more wrong. Harrison is a great groove drummer so check out the following analysis of his style.

by Brad Schlueter