                     | Welcome to my musical home away from home. Herein you may find some things to interest the drumming enthusiast in you. The articles and exercises are intended to help you become a better drummer. Enjoy your stay!
Everything on this website is free! This is one of my hobbies, and it gives me great joy to share with you some of the things I have learned in over 40 years of drumming. I also love helping you connect with other drummers, both through this site and through the Yahoo!Group Rudiments (see below). However, some of you have enjoyed the site so much, you have asked if you can make a financial contribution to help keep it running. I've politely refused these in the past, but I've recently decided to give you a mechanism to make a donation, if you would like to. I created a Pay Pal Donations page. Simply click on the button below and you will be taken to this page. You will be returned to the Drumming Web when you are finished. There is no obligation, of course. Enjoy the site! 
Well, I finally did it - I took The Plunge into Online Forums! BBS's, as some of you may know them. The Tomás Howie Drummingweb Community Forum (whew! THAT's a mouthful!) is now officially up and running! Just click on the link to the left that says Community Forum. Or, you can click here. OR, if you really want to make a shortcut of it, just type forum.drummingweb.com into your browser. I've tried to make the Community Forum as comprehensive as possible - I made have overdone it a bit. Please let me know! In the Announcements section is a Feedback forum. Just start a new topic and I'll get back to you! If you are more interested in the traditional email group, check out Rudiments (just below). Enjoy! And keep drumming!
I've added Search capabilities to the site! You can now search the Tomás Howie Drumming Web! This search engine is provided by Atomz. Try it! (This search feature will be on the bottom of the left-hand menu on every page.)
Thanks to Yahoo Groups!, we have a Drumming Discussion Group called Rudiments! The list is devoted to discussing drums and drumming with other drummers (sounds pretty straightforward, doesn't it?). It's basically a free list anyone can join. All you need to do is put your email address in the following form and click the "Join Now!" button to send it off. You will be taken to a Yahoo Groups! page where you will be asked to choose a password and fill in a short form. Nothing intrusive here: just your name, city, state, country, and age (I'd like to know where the subscribers are from so I can get an idea of the global Rudiments community). You will then get a welcome message in your email with instructions on verifying your subscription; you must verify to be added. Thanks for joining the list! [Are you interested in advertising Rudiments on your drum site? Feel free! Just click here - a box will open with the appropriate html code. Simply copy and paste it into your site.]
I'm continually striving to improve this site; be it new exercises, sound files, monthly lessons, and other features. This is the spot to look for site improvements. If you have any ideas you would like to see included on this site, please don't hesitate to drop me a line! · Time to take the Forum Plunge! The new Tomás Howie Drummingweb Community Forum is now online. Click here to join, and start contributing. Enjoy! (08/31/07) · It was a long time coming, but I finally made peace with MySpace and put together a page (http://www.myspace.com/tomasdrummer). Most MySpace pages are so filled with crap, they take forever to load. You know what I'm talking about. I've intentionally kept my page simple - it's not a "Music" page, but it is a musician's page - there is an MP3 player with some work I've done, including my band, Serebro. Enjoy! (04/18/07) · In the 10 years this site has been up I've received thousands of emails; most have been questions, but the tone has always been positive, and the compliments have been many - and humbling. TODAY I received my FIRST hate email:
· Monthly Drum Lesson - A new lesson every month. This month we look at Charting (09/01/05). · I added a Pay Pal "Make a Donation" Button for folks who are interested in saying "Thanks!" with a little coin. It's at the top of the Home Page. (08/03/05) · The Online section of The Drum Resources Directory has surpassed 1,000 links! · I finally finished the update of the Drum Resources Directory section! · I added an Atomz Search bar to the bottom of each page in the site. · I've started using the EX-29 Extreme Isolation Headphones for my drumming sessions - mainly for rehearsing, recording, and performing. They're perfect for drummers! Click here for a full review of the EX-29s. · The Practice Tips are now current. I have updated the Equipment page to reflect changes in my gear. I have also updated the Heroes page to remove dead links and update existing links. I also removed the CDNow links - it was never a valued service. · EDO has updated his Independence Exercises, called "Bass and Snare drum independence workout on Jazz Style." The new file replaces the old file - the Key file is the same. Both can be read with Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The links below will dowload each file. You can email EDO here. These documents are copyright by Edward Hironimus Wulia and are used by permission; all rights reserved. · The Rudiments page has been updated to reflect changes in Rudimentary Drumming. There are now two pages: the first page presents the old, standard NARD 26 Essential Rudiments of Drumming; the second page (linked from the first) presents the PASIC 40 International Drum Rudiments. Enjoy! · I finally listened to your patient prodding and got a domain name! www.drummingweb.com. Had to change the site name to fit it, though! :-) Please update your bookmarks. If you have a link to this site on your own site, please change it to reflect the new URL. Thanks! · Thanks to the prodding of readers, I've added a section on Snare Drum Tuning under the Tuning page. · Many of the Exercises now include Real Audio sound files! Just click on · Thanks to Modern Drummer and Matt Peiken for the write-up in the August 1999 issue. While I think the site is far from "basic", I appreciate the interest. If you've come here because of the MD article, please drop me a line and let me know! · Reading Music - A new page has been added to help you get started in the important skill of reading music. · To get back to this home page, click on the "Tomás Howie Drumming Web" graphic at the top of the screen from any page in the web. · To send me an e-mail, click on the little face at the bottom of the screen (it's called a Wit-Won, but I'm not supposed to tell you that). The subject line will indicate the page you're on. · I have included a handy pop-up window that explains the notation used on this site. Every page that includes notation will have the following graphic at the bottom of the page:
This will launch the Notation Key pop-up window, which you can leave up for easy reference. Try it now!
This spot will feature additions and changes in the site as they warrant.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Drumming Web
next to the Exercise to hear the file. (If you need an updated plug-in, just click on the Real 5.0 Player button at the bottom of the page.) The pages that include sound files are 
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