Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20. Odara hails from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and now calls Oakland home. The drum master teaches Brazilian ...

There are two things that I distinctly remember my dad teaching me how to do: changing the oil and performing a brake job. There weren't too many things cooler for a young boy than sitting next to him ...

So you want to learn to play the drums. Thrash the skins. Hit some wooden circles with sticks in the pursuit of that sweet, sweet rhythm. In this endeavor I salute you, especially if you’re a kid ...

Kick, snare, clap and hi-hat - the basic elements of electronic drum production have, on the surface, changed little since the dawn of dance music in the 1980s. But technology has come on in leaps and ...

An e-kit is the ideal first instrument for any budding musician, and particularly younger players. Hit a drum and it instantly makes a sound, and in my experience most people can pick up a basic drum ...