Big-time music producers don’t just stack chips; they stack sounds, most often drum sounds. Doing so helps them create huge beats with unique tones. Of course, there’s nothing about the practice that ...

Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that ...

A mainstay of jazz, brushes afford the drummer a softer-sounding alternative to sticks that's generally called on for pieces at the quieter end of the compositional spectrum - ie, ballads. They also ...

London-based musician Tim Doyle is a percussionist with a love of jazz, hip-hop and drum and bass. His latest project, Chiminyo, came about when he discovered you could set up a drum kit to trigger ...

If you’re a musician looking to add drum beats or loops via a pedal, a Finnish company called Kovaluu has unveiled a cheap solution. Its app for iOS and Android, called Beats and Loops, transforms ...

The TR-1000 is a professional digital drum machine with some serious lineage. It's the successor to the drum machines that shaped generations of music in the '80s and '90s and remains revered to this ...