He’s been the drummer of the godfather of soul, James Brown; he’s the most sampled drummer in the music history (his groove on James Brown Funky Drummer); he’s the beginning of funk, hip hop and drum’n’bass drumming.
He’s a funk drumming legend and he needs our help. From july 2009 Clide is suffering of kidney kidney failure and began weekly dialysis treatment. This stuff is painful and most of all expensive in USA.
“In July 2010, The Coalition for Clyde Stubblefield – an artist & industry association of Clyde’s supporters – …

Well time has come to play your loops, upload them in our Soundcloud Dropbox and win a Bose QuietComfort 15 headphone.
Yes, we @karmadrums love Bose and love loops & samples and want to warm up your creativity
Karmadrums contest rules
1. Upload five loops or/and samples: min 1 bar – max 8 bars, in any time signature on our Soundcloud.com Dropbox [see below]
2. Upload loops in ONE single audio file in AIFF, WAVE, FLAC, OGG, MP3 (almeno 256 di bitrate), AAC
3. Loop and samples must be released under a Creative …

WarStars/Battlestar Electrica (free Download) by WhiteNoise

Drum loop of Shakira Fifa 2010 official song: Waka Waka This time for Africa. This is a Soca rythm with classic ’4 on the floor’ bass drum and syncopated snare drum.

125bpm shakira waka waka fifa soca rythm (ride lead) by karmadrums
125bpm shakira waka waka fifa soca rythm (hihat lead) by karmadrums
Here we have more soca rhythm grooves:
118bpm caribbean soca rhythm various grooves by karmadrums

104bpm hip hop drum loop walk this way like variation by karmadrums

Shakira sings the Official song of Fifa 2010 World Cup. The chorus borrows from a favorite Cameroonian marching chant made popular by the group Golden Voices.
Shakira: Waka Waka drum loop and drum score – soca rhythm

How to to play five and seven note groupings on the drumset? Some ideas from Modern Drummer. Phrasing is on a basic 8th and 16th notes and in 12/8.
Start from snare and then try voicing around the kit.

On may 2, at 11am, we from Karmadrums and a lot of other italian drummers will be drumming outside the Colosseum in the heart of new and ancient Rome.
A drumcircle is called for peace in Darfur, supporting Italians for Darfur and Sudan365. If some of you is in Rome and wanna play with us in an unforgettable stage and for a good things drop a comment :-)
drum the right thing :-)

Thomas Lang is working hard on a new project for italian rockstar Gianna Nannini.
And, according to his facebook status updates, is working very hard
Thomas Lang “New Gianna album-drums done. Tomorrow I’ll be doing all percussion.”
Thomas Lang: “Assault & Battery studios-Gianna Nannini day 2: 6 hours-7 songs, only two more songs to go today and then it’s curry and a pint!”
Hold on Thomas ;-)

A survey for Berklee community members bring us good news: Berklee is considering to launch “New Online Percussion Courses”.
Drums and percussion are the only courses missing on berkleemusic.com, the online faculty of Berklee College of Music. So if you wanna study drums @ Berklee but you can’t move to Boston this is a something you’d like.
Here’s the email from Berklee:
New Online Percussion Courses Survey – Win 8GB iPod Nano
Dear Berkleemusic Community Member,
Help us build new online courses to suit your needs!
We’re about to launch the development of …

March 20: Drum circle in Rome: lot of people and a lot of fun
Some audio [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

An all star debut album for Travis Barker, featuring Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, RZA, Swizz Beatz, the Game, Beanie Seigel and Slipknot’s Corey Taylor. As Travis told to Spinner

On google book a free preview of Dom Famularo’s ‘it’s your move’, a must have book on hand tecnique for drummers. Free stroke; moeller tecnique, matched grip (french, american and german grip), traditional grip, power stroke, free stroke and much more: this book is a guide for every drummer looking for a step ahead in stick control and hands tecnique.