Drums are usually miked with at least one dedicated microphone. Cymbals are a totally different animal in that field, in that you can easily get away with capturing their sound with overhead microphones only, or by complementing them with dedicated microphones on the hi-hat and/or ride. In this free drum lesson, DrumLessons.com sound engineer Victor Guidera and Jared Falk, show you exactly how to EQ the sound captured by overhead, and dedicated hi-hat and ride microphones, so you can get the best sounding cymbals as possible for any live and studio application. More »
In this free drum lesson, you’ll learn important concepts in a step-by-step approach with DrumLessons.com sound engineer Victor Guidera and Jared Falk, for the EQuing of top and bottom microphones on a four-tom set. More »
In this free drum lesson, you’ll learn important concepts in a step-by-step approach with DrumLessons.com sound engineer Victor Guidera and Jared Falk – Victor’s sidekick for this series of free drum lessons – for the EQuing of top and bottom snare drum microphones. More »
Although the sound engineer is the main force behind a fruitful EQuing stage, you as the drummer, have an important role in it as well – one that will actually influence and dictate how successful and fast the EQuing will be. Fortunately for you, in this free drum lesson you’ll be taught important EQuing concepts in a step-by-step approach by DrumLessons.com sound engineer Victor Guidera, and tips on how you can help the sound engineer get the best sound out of the bass drum by DrumLessons.com poster boy Jared Falk. More »
The free drum lesson on beginner broken 16th note drum fills introduced you to a whole new world of 16th note based rhythmic ideas. With this free drum lesson, DrumLessons.com instructor Jared Falk expands on that new world of rhythmic possibilities by showing you how to combine the rhythmic figures of the beginner lesson into one-bar linear drum fills. More »
The double paradiddle is the next pattern from the paradiddle family of drum rudiments that Lionel Duperron teaches you how to play here. With this free drum lesson, you’ll learn how to practice and play the double paradiddle, and how to apply it to the drum set through a couple of drum beats and drum fills. More »
If you’re reading this, you must be well aware of one of the most popular drum fills out there by now, the constant 16th note single stroke roll drum fill. This pattern is a cool and simple one to use, and can actually give birth to a ton of different drum fills if you spread the strokes around the drum set. In this free drum lesson however, Jared Falk takes you away from that constant pattern by subbing some of the strokes with rests, for coming up with three broken 16th note drum fills. More »
In this free drum lesson, DrumLessons.com sound engineer Victor Guidera teaches you the meaning of some of the most common technical terms and theory behind drum set miking for both live and studio settings. With this video you’ll learn what are audio spectrums and frequency responses, and how the type of microphone you use to record a given instrument affects the overall sound you’re capturing. More »
In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk and DrumLessons.com sound engineer Victor Guidera guide you through the microphones and miking techniques used for getting the cymbal sound you hear on all the free drum lessons on DrumLessons.com. This free drum lesson on cymbal miking includes tips on microphone positioning for the ride cymbal, hi-hat, auxiliary hi-hat, and for the remaining cymbals. More »
In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk and DrumLessons.com sound engineer Victor Guidera, guide you through the microphones and miking techniques used for getting the tom-tom sound you hear on all the free drum lessons on DrumLessons.com. This free drum lesson on tom miking has tips for bottom and top microphone positioning, and includes some tricks you can use to avoid microphone leakage. More »
