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A Look Back On The Steve White Clinic

On Wednesday 12th May, we had the pleasure of putting on a drum clinic with Steve White in association with Mapex at The Venue in Derby. Tickets sales for the event were excellent and as the sound check was being completed a queue had already started to form outside!

It was a fantastic evening and great to see it so well attended by drummers and non drummers of all ages, coming down to take a look at this respected drummer. Steve not only played some virtuoso drum solos, but also talked about music history, offered practice tips, showed different techniques and played along to some well known tracks.

We were also extremely privileged to welcome bassist Damon Minchella to the evening for an impromptu duet with Steve. This was one of the first times Damon had played publicly since a potentially career ending accident, although you could never have told as the pair played a number of tracks that were all well received by the audience.

Steve was a pleasure to watch and spoke with great passion about drumming and this seemed to rub off on the crowd with some of the youngsters’ air drumming their way through his entire final piece!

The evening was completed with a small raffle with the first prize of one of the new Mapex Black Panther Snares going to a lucky young drummer, who seemed very happy with his prize!

We hope to have more clinics announced in the coming months so keep your eyes out on the website, or sign up to our mailing list to get information straight to your inbox.