This year\'s Vancouver International Drum Festival, held at Tom Lee Music Granville Store, featured one of their heaviest lineups to date, including drum artists like Ryan Van Poederooyen, Gene Hoglan and Flo Mounier.
October 28th
Pearl and Sabian presented Ryan Van Poederooyen\'s first ever drum clinic. He showed why he has become one of most respected drummers on the Vancouver music scene. And afterwards the drummer for The Devin Townsend Band also played an exclusive first concert by hiw new band Terror Syndrome:
October 30th
Gene Hoglan, renowned for his work with such acts as Dethklok, Strapping Young Lad, Death and Dark Angel, was presented by Pearl and Sabian. The 41 years old drummer showed his creativity in drum arrangements and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms, mainly using his kick triplets. Gene\'s highly technical playing is extremely accurate at very high and challenging tempos, earning him the nickname \"The Atomic Clock\":
November 1st
Again presented by Yamaha, Mike Michalkow returned on stage to show all visitors how to play drums in the 21st century. Mike played a hybrid acoustic kit with Yamaha\'s newest DTXtreme 3. He showed how to create sequences and samples, play bass and piano parts on the drums, edit sounds, add crazy effects, play along to great songs, trigger sounds at will, and how to develop perfect metronomic time. Quite creative and very instructive!
November 2nd
Roland presented Flo Mounier of Cryptopsy, one of the most extreme metal drummers around. Flo amazed his audience by playing things many would not think possible utilizing Roland Electronics in the most extreme fashion.
