Will Calhoun

Calhoun is best known as the drummer of the funk metal band Living Colour. He has also played with Jungle Funk and HeadFake, recorded several jazz albums as a leader, and has appeared as a sideman with a diverse group of acclaimed artists, including Pharoah Sanders, B.B. King, Herb Alpert, Dr. John, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Marcus Miller, Public Enemy, and Ronnie Wood.[1]

Calhoun’s drumming incorporates many different stylistic influences and various augmenting technologies. With Living Colour, he was one of the first drummers to blend advanced funk and fusion techniques with elements of hard rock and thrash metal. More recently he has integrated Drum and Bass grooves, ethnic percussion and sampling into his playing. He is a very physical player, with a broad vocabulary from extremely precise grooves to more free-form avant-funk and jazz approaches.

Will is just one an array of artists who have performed in clinic for Newcastle Drum Centre.  Will appeared with us on 23rd October 2006 and gave us on for the best clinics we’ve put on to date.


Gear

Will uses Mapex Saturn Series drums and Sabian cymbals.

Drums

  • 20” x 18” Bass Drum
  • 18” x 16” Bass Drum
  • 10” x 8” Tom
  • 12” x 9” Tom
  • 14” x 14” Floor Tom
  • 16” x 16” Floor Tom
  • 14” x 5.5” Black Panther Snare

Cymbals

  • 14” Vault Mad Hats
  • Vault Resonating Bells
  • 19” Prototype Crash Ride
  • 18” HHX Evolution O-Zone Crash
  • 21” Prototype Ambient Ride
  • 10” Alien Disc
  • 28” Prototype Hammered Meanie Crash
  • 21” Prototype Jazz Ride with rivets


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Acoustic Drums
At Newcastle Drum Centre we sell a wide range of acoustic drum kits and drum sets. We sell all major brands of drumkits, including Pearl drums, Premier drums, Mapex drums, Yamaha drums, CB drums, Pork Pie drums, Tama drums, Gretsch drums, Dixon drums, PDP drums and many more cheap drums. Check out our drum kit & cymbal packages for some great deals and low cost drums in our drum sales!

Electronic Drum Kits
Electronic drum kits look completely different from the conventional drum kits we are all used to seeing. Electronic kits may look different to acousitc drums, but they sound just as good as any acoustic drum kit. Electronic drum sets take up less space than a conventional acoustic kit and are great for silent practice drumming. With a wide range of Roland electronic drum kits (Roland v-drums) and Yamaha electronic drums we know we will have the electronic drum set you are looking for.

Cymbals
Newcastle Drum Centre supplies a full range of Sabian cymbals, Zildjian cymbals, Istanbul cymbals and the often under-rated Stagg Cymbals. We keep crash cymbals, ride cymbals, hi-hat cymbals, china cymbals, splash cymbals and matched cymbal box sets. Beginner drummer, professional and everything in between, we can supply every drummer with cheap cymbals.


Samba Drumming
Newcastle Drum Centre are main dealers in all of the major samba drumming brands. If you are looking for samba drums or samba percussion from Gope, Contemporanea, RMV, Bauer, Percussion Plus, Remo, Stagg, LP, NDC, Bauer, Pearl, Meinl, Izzo and Liverpool then you've come to the right place. We supply samba instruments from surdo, repenique, caixa, tamborim, rocar, ganza, chocalho de platinela, timba, agogo bells, cuica, whistles, pandiero and reco reco, tan tan and rebolo. We have ethnic musical instruments for every samba bands drumming needs, cheap samba is right here.

Djembe Drumming
Newcastle Drum Centre is a main dealer for Djembe drums and all djmebe drumming, including Kambala drums, Kambala Bassam, Bucara, Festival, Toca, Pearl and Remo. Djembe drums can be rope tuned djembe drums or key tuned djembe and are made from lightweight wood or heavy wood or even fiberglass djembe drums. There are many African drumming instruments, including djembe, doum doum or djun djun, bougarabou, ghana bells, talking drum, shekere, caxixi and balaphon. We have African percussion and ethnic musical instruments for every djembe drumming bands needs.

Great Deals.
With many offers on cheap drums, drums for sale and discount drums, cheap percussion, cheap cymbals and many cut price percussion instruments we know that we will be able to get you the gear you want, at a price you like. We are the best for cheap drums uk, discount percussion and great value cymbals uk, and with our price match guarantee you know that we will be the best priced uk drum shop, if you find a better price at any other drum store in the uk then just get in touch and we will match the price of the other drum supplier, no other uk drum seller will outsell us.