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Keep Thomas always on your *applething*, with ‘Thomas Lang, Drummer, Official App 2.7′ for iPhone and Ipod Touch.
It costs 1.99$ and you can have news, photos and music samples from Thomas Lang
Thomas Lang, Drummer:
“Welcome to my iPhone App!
Thanks for downloading. Remember that excellence is a habit — not a virtue.”

According to 1up.com, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich and KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons are confirmed to appear in the Guitar Hero 6 game, which is tentatively due this holiday season. Simmons will narrate a brand new “Quest Mode,” where players will “recruit” other rock stars and unlock their “song sets” along the way. You can also unlock the musician’s “alter ego” (such as Lars becoming “Warrior Lars”) which give you bonus powers, like x6 point multiplyers instead of x4. QUEEN, BLACK SABBATH and KISS will reportedly have songs in the game;
keep …

Wanna play Rock Band or Guitar Hero on your Drumset? Omega GM 1 is a trigger system that fits mostly every drumset and connect your drums and cymbals to the console. You can also buy it with in a bundle with a Pearl Rythm Traveller Drumset.

* Hi/Lo sensitivity mode switch: Allows mesh head or real head play
* Game mode switch: Use Rock Band™ or Guitar Hero™ drum mapping
* Connects to Guitar Hero drum controller MIDI port
* Intelligent power management including auto power on/off
What’s Included
* Omega GM-1 plug-and-play drum …

Audacity is one o out best friends. A free audio editor for recording, slicing, and mixing audio. good for teaching, playing, transcribing all stuff connected to be a musician.
There’s a new release Audacity 1.3.8 (Beta). And this is a good news.

Lilypond is probably the best free music notator and can face commercial monsters like Finale and Sibelius.
Lilypond is a code-driven editor and can generate PDF, PostScript, SVG, PNG and Midi file simply writing the code in a text editor. If you’re not code-minded, anyway you can use some editors and GUI for Lilypond
After a one-year work, Lilypond staff has released the 2.12 ‘Rune’ version, dedicated to Rune Zedeler (staff member, musician and contributor for six years recenltly passed away)
New features and bug fix list is here.
Lilypond is not easy …

Update (8/29). I’ve took a cheaper way: a Pearl Bd-10 pad for bass drum and a couple of Vic Firth Pad. That’s enough, for now. And, then, take a look a this home made kit
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I love practice pads and, more, practice kits. For a drummer are the Silent Way To The Heaven’s Practice. My practice kit, as today, includes only a Vic Firth Pad 12, a Vic Firth Pad 6 (for traveling light), and a set of pillows.
I was looking to something more complete for day-by-day home practice, when …

Looking for audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps? The Freesound Project is the right place to go. All stuff is released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License and a vital community of musicians, artistis and deejays make the site a ‘must partecipate’.

Looking for a good ‘how to’ for Redrum (the built in Reason‘s drum machine) ? Here’s a free lesson by Berklee that show how to manage Redrum as a sampler, with a video demo and interactive materials.

UPDATED – 6/26: here comes the price
Sometimes is a good idea to click on a banner. Fortunately i did it on the Modern drummer’s site and i was teleported to a Roland amazing product: the RMP-12 : Marchin percussion. Take a look at the videos. A rythm coach ready for the stage, powerful but (seems) simply and ready to use, with no settings overflow . “The unit has a 12-inch pad with rim triggering that connects to a module with 128 different sounds and effects, including a variety of …

Good news, as Christian Mondrup annunced by email, archive is back online at http://icking-music-archive.org/. Was ‘only’ a dns matter.
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Previously, on this post….
WIMA, Werner Icking Music Archive, a great collection of free downloadable classical sheets, is not online anymore at his primary url http://icking-music-archive.org/. Seems a lot of people is coming on Karma Drums looking for WIMA, so i’d like to give some information.
First, the good news: the archive is still browsable at an alternative address.
The alternative home page contains a google site search that is not working, as …

One of the best music notation software, good for drums and drumline scores writing, too: Lilypond, with is ascii interface, is definitely a low-carbon software. And it’s free. And it’s complicated, and fascinating. A real good text editor, with pdf preview, tools for macro and template writing, simple parser and other good features is LilypondTool. Gui for Lilypond on posix sistems are Rosegarden and Canorus (also available for Windows).
If you don’t like command-line stuff try Finale Notepad. It’s for free too