PRIMAL FEAR's RANDY BLACK Schedules Canadian Drum Clinics

PRIMAL FEAR drummer Randy Black has scheduled the following Canadian drum clinics:

Jan. 05 - Axe Music - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jan. 09 - Long & McQuade - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Jan. 11 - Axe Music - Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Randy Black recently released an instructional DVD, "Randy Black - The Black Book: Creative Metal Drumming", via Hudson Music.

The DVD's official description: Randy Black is synonymous with extreme metal drumming and with many years of performance and teaching experience behind him, the master is releasing this two-DVD, limited-edition, digipack pack so that anyone can benefit from his wealth of knowledge.

"What started out as a plan to record a few songs in pro quality for promotional purposes ended up being this double DVD, filmed and recorded at Monongo Studios in Berlin, Germany," Randy said. "When I approached ROAX Films about it they suggested I do a full-fledged instructional DVD. It was not my original plan but after thinking it over and coming up with a concept I thought I'd give it a shot. It also had to do with the fact that I'd been teaching for quite a few years and knew I had something to offer to a wide variety of levels of players.

"I hope you can take something from these DVDs and apply it to your playing in your own personal way.

"With today's recording methods it's very common that certain programs/software are used to improve or fix someone's playing; it's standard procedure. I wanted this DVD to be 'old school' in the sense that there was not one note I played that was moved or quantized. Nor were there any samples used. I wanted the listener/viewer to hear and see how I play naturally and how the drum kit sounds acoustically. Every single drum note you hear played on this DVD was played by yours truly, from start to finish."

Disc 1 includes:

* Basic rudiments on the practice pad
* Advice to young drummers
* Hand grip and technique
* Stretching and stick tricks
* Applying various rudiments on the kit
* Hi-hat foot technique
* Independence exercises/moving accents
* Various fills and rhythms from Randy's recordings
* Crossovers
* Applying different styles to metal music
* Tools of the trade
* 3 solos - pad/studio/live

Disc 2 includes:

* Documentary/Interview
* Drum performance of 7 songs:
* Seven Seals/Primal Fear
* Hit You Harder/Skew Siskin
* Blood On Your Hands/Primal Fear
* Heart Of A Brave/Primal Fear
* Blackened Beauty/Marcus Forstbauer
* A Promise From Underneath/DuskMachine
* Cold Blooded/Annihilator (Cover Version)

For more information, go to this location.