Joomla! site syndication http://www.drumdojo.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:20:48 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.drumdojo.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.drumdojo.com Joomla! site syndication http://www.drumdojo.com/guerilla_drum_making_review.htm Review Guerrilla Drum Making DVD 86 Minutes John Dutra www.guerrilladrummaking.com (http://www.guerilladrummaking.com/) There is an increasing number of online home-made videos and tutorials showing various aspects of the drum making and drum finishing processes, some of these are are reasonable and some are not so great. Many of the 'how its made' variety give an insight into the major drum manufacturer's plants and processes that are very informative, but use machines and techniques that the small-time or hobby builder can never hope to use. John Dutra's Guerrilla Drum Making represents the first professionally produced tutorial that I have come across regarding Drum making that relies on common or garden tools and techniques - I am mightily impressed. Reviews - DVD Reviews Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:43:23 +0100 http://www.drumdojo.com/bodhacking.htm Bodhacking Making a bodhran from a light fitting - Hacking Homebase #1 On a recent shopping trip to homebase Rob Forkner and Paul Marshall chanced upon some light fittings in a sale that were too good to pass up... Rob and Paul retired toPaul's workshop and set about creating a drum using skin off-cuts plus the tools and industrial fixings available. Because they were so cheap, we had bought two of the light fittings in the store intending to make a couple of different drums. The Shell The wood from which the lights were made was cheap hardwood and built using a barrel-stave method with a vertical grain. Drum Tech - build Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:14:29 +0100 http://www.drumdojo.com/kids_drum_sets.htm Caveat Papa! Advice for parents buying cheap drum sets or kids drum sets As we can see from the popularity of the Young and Gifted (dojotv/vid_young_drummer.htm)section of Dojo TV (dojotv/index.htm), Kids are really starting to demand more and more from their equipment and, consequently, their poor parents who have to pay for it. This upsurge is great for manufacturers and the drum industry who have created a whole new marketplace for a whole new range of products. Some are genuine innovation, some are simply repackaging. is 'Kids', 'Junior' or 'student' merely a nice way of saying 'budget', 'cheapo' or 'flimsy' With the rising commercial importance of junior drummers, their impressionable minds exposed to hero-endorser-worship through MTV and their uncanny ability for persistence; you WILL inevitably end up buying junior a drumset and you really have no choice about it. We say Caveat Papa - Let the Father Beware Drumset - Drumset Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:44:21 +0100