Born into the Escovedo Latin jazz legacy, Sheila E. broke into the mainstream in 1984 with her seminal LP, The Glamourous Life, which notched two GRAMMY nominations and propelled her to stardom.

With the advent of drum machines and electronic kits, many sensible beatmakers, took to programming the machines and loops themselves. Why? Because they were the people that understood how patterns ...

At the start of the film above Dujon plays a steady beat on the drum kit. Here’s how the different parts of the kit work together. The snare drum produces a loud ‘crack’ sound with a higher ...

The Polar Express that blasted into Washington for President Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural in 1985 forced the whole ...