drums
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You Need To Hear The Unreal Sound Of A Snare Drum In An Abandoned Nuclear Cooling Tower
Those giant, curvy, concrete towers that rise above nuclear power plants aren’t only useful for cooling superheated water. Once decommissioned, the massive structures can also be used to naturally create amazing sounds and effects when playing instruments inside them.
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One-Man Band Will Rock You
Video: The standard power trio usually includes a drummer, a guitarist and a bassist. In his latest YouTube video, mega virtuoso Rob Scallon decides to be all three at once.
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Watch And Listen To The Fascinating Process Of Making A Steel Pan Drum
Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of banging and hammering and mashing and even torching involved in making a steel pan drum. Watching it all come together and seeing flat steel get shaped in the most irregular pounding way to create the most perfect sounding notes for each section is pretty damn awesome. I couldn’t turn…
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Remote Control Drumming Toy Keeps The Beat Without Any Electronics
If you’ve lost count of how many times you’d wished you could’ve drummed along to a song with a set of remote controls in your hands instead of drumsticks, here’s an adorably-odd toy called Mr Knocky that does the actual drumming for you — without electronics, batteries or incompatibilities with your OS of choice.