Hand Drum
Cuba, A Forbidden Musical Paradise
Brad Boynton visits Cuba, a drummer's forbidden paradise, filled with set players sporting Thomas Lang chops & timbale players who put drum lines to shame.
Hand Drum
Meinl Timbale Roundup: For Any Occassion
Gregg Juke tells us about Meinl's new timbales that can fill various roles in both the drum set player's and the percussionist's sonic arsenal.
Hand Drum
Taye Drums Wood Timbales Tested!
Taye bucked the age-old tradition of steel shell construction when they introduced these wood timbales. But the sound, and price, proved to be right.
Lessons
Glen Caruba: Funky Cascara For Timbales & Cowbell
Nashville percussionist Glen Caruba demonstrates a cool cascara rhythm on the timbales that incorporates cowbell and works perfectly with a 2:3 clave.
Gear
LP’s New Giovanni Series Prestige Timbales
LP’s superstar endorser Giovanni Hidalgo came up with an idea for a new timbale set inspired by the ’50s heyday of NYC’s Palladium Theater.
Hand Drum
Marc Quiñones: The Other Allman Brother
Percussionist Marc Quiñones, raised in the Bronx on a steady diet of salsa, tells us how he found himself playing with The Allman Brothers, the definitive white-bread blues band, for 15 years.
Hand Drum
Rebound Man: Pablo “Chino” Nuñez
As the old adage would have us believe, you’ve got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues. Turns out that the same is true for salsa musicians. Pablo “Chino” Nuñez will be the first to admit that he never did much in the way of dues paying – gigs came his way easily since before he could shave – but in 2002, after a career that had already spanned 30 years and had seen the acclaimed percussionist perform with the likes of Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Marc Anthony, Ruben Blades, Johnny Panhreco, and Victor Manuelle (the list truly goes on and on), Nuñez, an explosive, expressive, and highly versatile player, with chops so prodigious that one would never expect him to be out of work anytime or anywhere, joined the ranks of New York’s homeless.
Hand Drum
Video Lesson: Clave & Cascara
Here are two patterns that can be played on a wide range of percussion instruments. In this lesson, try using three to four instruments such as congas with a Jam Block and cowbell.
