As part of the session-musician collective known as the Wrecking Crew, drummer Hal Blaine left his imprint on pop music—sometimes physically, as is the case of the sheet ... songs that borrow ...

Rarely is a song introduced by a drum, yet some of popular music's most memorable tracks ... followed by the main beat embellished by a small snare pattern introduces Rihanna's 2007 mega R&B ...

A set of drums, it seems, isn’t just about creating music, but also about ... you hear a drum roll from a snare drum. And some of today’s most popular songs — regardless of genre — find ...

1. Led Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love” The kick drum may be where the beat lives, but generally speaking, a song doesn’t truly begin until the snare enters. It’s the most valuable player of ...

You can tune the drum to fit the key of the song ... snare’s fizzy top-end is revealed gradually. To restore front-end snap, use a short, ‘plucky’ filter envelope with 0ms Attack, 20ms Decay, zero ...

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Why beat a dead horse when you can beat a keg with a baseball bat while playing along to a handful of Metallica songs, pretending it's actually the snare ... drum sound has made for some popular ...

Or at least, it WAS, until Tool’s drum tech Joe Slaby changed drummer Danny Carey’s snare drum mid-song. In the video below, you can see Carey in the middle of performing “Grudge” off the band’s 2001 ...

A drummer on YouTube has made a video playing classic Metallica songs, but with the drum sounds of St. Anger. Indeed, they replaced all the drums on the tracks with the ringing, open-snare drum ...