In keeping with the time honored tradition of taping things and then selling a DVD of said things to people... Hudson Music has released the DVD of last year's Modern Drummer Festival. Way to go guys. Source: Harmony-Central.com Featuring amazing performances and illuminating interviews from eleven of today's greatest drum artists, Hudson Music's new, four-disc, twelve-hour DVD of the 2008 Modern Drummer Festival™ is much more than merely the highlights of the most prestigious, longest-running, largest live ...

It has been a while but I'm back from my vacation and I'm brining the reviews son! If you own the DVD set for the 2005 Modern Drummer Festival then don't bother with this one because you already own it. This DVD is merely the two clinics that these two drummers gave during the modern drummer festival so it's kind of like a HMMS (Hudson Music Master Series) double feature. There's not much else to say ...

So while searching for a story for today, I stumbled across the Hudson Music Youtube channel and found a whole channel for Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials 2 DVD. This particular clip popped out to me. It's about rideless grooves and how to use them. I found it incredibly useful. Same ole Tommy. However, I noticed he's using Evans heads now where he was using Remo before. Enjoy! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlAuXhP9I5o&feature=related[/youtube]

Jazz and studio great Billy Ward (Friend of the Podcast) has gifted us with some excellent tapes of his band rehearsing for this past Modern Drummer Festival as well as some videos of the band playing a gig in New York's The Cutting Room prior to the MD Fest. Pretty great stuff. He's also made charts of the songs available. Very cool. Looks like Billy's set up a "Pay For It What You Will" system a ...

Studio great Russ Miller (friend of the podcast) and Hudson Music have released Miller's new DVD, "Arrival: Behind the Glass." Seems like it's part instructional DVD, part performance DVD. Russ is a great guy and phenomenal player. Check out Dave's interview with Russ on the 1.19.07 podcast. Source: Harmony-Central.com Presenting one of today's leading drum artists along with a host of LA's top studio musicians and more than a dozen of the world's best-known drummers and percussionists, ...

You can follow along to all 24 hours of the VISIBLE SCHOOL 2008 Drumathon!  We're still accepting donations at visibleschool.com/drumathon and it's not too late to enter the iPod/iTunes/Guitar Center raffle!

Source: Harmony Central Hudson Music announces the latest addition to its Master Series of drum instruction DVDs — John Blackwell: Master Series. The third title in the popular series features one of today's top R&B drummers and showcases the playing that has earned him the drum chair with such high-profile artists as Justin Timberlake and Prince as well as international acclaim in his own right. The three-hour DVD is divided into two main sections. In the first ...

Hudson Music has recently added a lot of new videos to their YouTube channel. Most of the clips are sneak peeks at DVD released, but they are all worth a watch. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=wUJ97Wel1ks] In case you didn't know, Hudson Music has produced several of the top tier instructional DVDs out on the market today. They are AMAZINGLY well produced and feature A-list players strutting all their goods. Best of all, the DVDs are PACKED with ...