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"Play eighth notes on the hi-hat, kick on one and three, snare on two and four and you’re playing AC/DC”: 13 easy drum songs every beginner should learn

Stop cramming and start jamming with these must-know easy-drum classics for beginners

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"I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard. I wanted it to sound enormous, to grab you by your throat": How Bruce Springsteen saved his career with Born To Run

The Boss spent six months working on the album's title track

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"We had no idea that what we were doing was groundbreaking or revolutionary": Read our classic interview with Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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“Liminal is set in the borderlands between song and non-song (or ‘nong’ as we call it)": Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s new album in their own words

Apparently, new album contains 11 new ‘nongs’ "exploring an intimate and unfamiliar new sonic world"

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"How can you tell a drummer's at the door?": 20 of the best drummer jokes ever

Bu-dum-bump!

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“One night Zeppelin were all going down the boozer and I said, 'You guys bugger off but Bonzo, you stay behind because I've got an idea’”: The genius behind John Bonham’s towering When the Levee Breaks drum sound

It’s one of the best drum recordings in history, but the resulting sound was just as much a feat of engineering as it way playing

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What’s on Josh Homme’s to-do list when Queens Of The Stone Age play Sheffield next week?

You might see him lurking around High Green

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"Sometimes you get to the double time in Paradise City and think, ‘Man, I’ve got to play this now!?’”: How drummer Frank Ferrer powered Guns N’ Roses for 19 years

And why You Could Be Mine was his favourite song to play

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"I've analysed hundreds of players over the years. They're all a part of what I do": Clem Burke's 10 essential drum albums

"You've got to listen to what the greats have done," the Blondie 'heartbeat', who passed away this year told us

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“A versatile set with dry and dark tonal qualities”: Zultan 25 Series Cymbals review

Zultan delivers another extremely versatile cymbal range for a wallet-friendly price

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“He came in, and just on the first take, I was like, ‘Oh my God. I didn't know that a person playing eighth notes could do that much”: How Pino Palladino transformed the simple bassline in Miley Cyrus’s End of the World into something "so much better"

"I just thought it would sound the same, but my God," says awestruck producer Shawn Everett

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“We came off stage and looked at each other in amazement, because all that singing from the audience was so extreme. And I said to Freddie, ‘Maybe we should be harnessing this kind of energy’”: How Queen created the mother of all rock anthems

“I was hoping it would catch on," Brian May said

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“We decided that our audiences would come along with us, rather than it being down to us to feed them a conventional diet”: Paul McCartney on how the '60s avant-garde influenced the Beatles

I Am The Walrus drew from John Cage

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'Illness' forces The Who to postpone Philly date on final US tour

Though it’s not known who exactly is ill

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“We tried it as a laugh in sound check one day. Drummer II and I loved it so much that we stayed with it”: The secret sauce behind Sleep Token’s live drum sound

Because delivering drums for one of rock’s hottest acts requires the breaking of more than a few rules

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“Back At It”: Are the rump Jane’s Addiction recording an album without Perry Farrell?

No clues as to what name they might use

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“His influence is referenced by many contemporary drummers and he has no doubt spawned his fair share of copyists”: 6 of the most inspirational drummers of all time

Welcome to MusicRadar’s Drums Week! To kick things off, we’re spotlighting some of the most consequential sticksmen of all time

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“Instead of shouting ‘Maiden! Maiden!’ they were going ‘Sooty! Sooty!’”: Iron Maiden legend Nicko McBrain's funniest moment

His famous drum battle with two glove puppets

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Where to start with a drum kit

Before you start your drumming journey, let’s take a tour of the instrument it’s all about…

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Spotify responds to Apple Music’s new AutoMix feature by letting you turn your playlists into ready-made DJ sets with “seamless transitions”

You now have BPM and key information for all your playlist tracks, too

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"They may be the spiritual successor to Sony’s Scheps-approved mixing cans, but they tread their own path": Sony MDR-M1 review

Sony’s new studio cans nod to the legendary MDR-7506, swapping forensic mids for balance you can wear all day

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Beatles Anthology compilations, documentary and book all restored, revamped, repackaged and reissued this autumn

But still no Carnival Of Light

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“Can someone fill me in pls. Cause I actually don’t know who this is?” Some Fortnite players have never heard of Gorillaz

Others think they’re a “late 90s band”

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“When Bowie lived with me, he kept pushing me, saying, 'You’ve gotta keep changing. You can’t keep repeating yourself’”: The legendary rock singer whose band stopped him from recording with David Bowie

“We were joined at the hip in 1974!" says Glenn Hughes

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“There were plenty of drummers who could copy what Nicko did, but we don't want one of those. We didn’t want a clone”: Bruce Dickinson on why Maiden chose a drummer with a different feel

Plus singer isn’t keen on The Sphere

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