Popular music was in a very different place in the 1980s than it had been in the '70s. Even as hair product use expanded, song complexity shrunk, or at least changed focus as styles like new wave ...

While debates over the best guitar solo of all time garner a lot of attention, drummers often don't inspire the level of passion that their bandmates do. However, they should because they provide the ...

Removing the drums from a band is like removing the spine from a body — it just can't move. And while every genre of music has had god-tier drummers (Buddy Rich, anyone?), rock gives drummers a unique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Side profile of a person playing a drum kit One of the greatest things about getting your first drum beats and fills down is being ...

Guitars, sure. Vocal performances, fine. Keys, bass, flute—got it. Sometimes what you really need to get riled up is percussion. Percussion! It’s the hits of the drums that get your heart pounding, ...