The drums are a strange instrument. Are they even an instrument? They don’t make melodies like guitars or keyboards. They’re placed in the back of the stage and the drum kits can often seem to ...

Roland has great news for anyone wishing to add digital elements to their analogue kit but who aren’t keen on festooning their already complex physical set-up with ugly wires. Their new DrumLink ...

And both Comess and Schenkman dug out some gear from the early days. “I played my Brady drum set on this record,” Comess says, “with a variety of snare drums from Brady to Yamaha, Ludwig, and Pa ...

But when Jason Bonham was a small child and got called in to entertain, the family friends he played his drums for could be anyone from Jimmy Page to some of the guys from the group Bad Company.

Gear and rigging to catch black drum in the surf. Captain Steve's Bait and Tackle in Chincoteague share some expertise.

The Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl with his former drummer Josh Freese - Getty ...

He was “huddled in a corner” with Zeppelin’s Bonham talking about “bass drum pedals, skins and sticks”. And perhaps this is why so many drummers get fired. They just love drumming too much.

Some of the greatest music ever released has been defined by drum work. The drums, together with the bass guitar, provide the rhythmic foundation on which most songs rely. A competent drummer is ...