Welcome to the Drum Clinic

Hello everyone! Welcome to drum-clinic.com... A website recently resurrected and aimed at helping the worldwide drumming community. I sincerely hope you enjoy the contents here and find them useful.

Feel free to use the submit link if you would like to submit an article, comment, product.... anything drumming related, for inclusion to this site.

All the materials provided from drum-clinic.com are 100% free, but we may link to other resources too.

ABOUT ME:

I'm Jim McCarthy. I'm now in my 50s and live in Canada mostly as a percussion instrument developer and builder. For MOST of my career though, I was mostly a performer and teacher... teaching percussion to a wide variety of students and concentrating mainly on hand technique which was my specialty, and running clinics and masterclasses based on my book — Stick Technique.

Developing and teaching the technical aspects of hand and stick motion at the leading edge of drumming, was my primary passion for well over two decades, and started whilst studying and performing the snare drum solos of legends John Wooton and Marty Hurley in my university days.

I studied Percussion at Adelaide University for a number of years first under Richard Smith then under Jim Bailey, and finished in 1996 with a Masters degree in performance.

May you always find success and joy with drumming!