Double drumming

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Double drumming (or double drums as it is sometimes referred to) is a musical technique, used mostly in rock music, where two drummers play two drum kits at the same time. One may play the rhythm while another may play another style, or both may play the same rhythm.

Bands/Artists that have used double drums

• 38 Special
• Adam and the Ants
• The Allman Brothers Band
• Beyonce (her all female backing group has 2 drummers)
• ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
• Blur, used in the song Song 2
• Brand New
• Broken Social Scene , have been known to do so on tour
• Bright Eyes
• Butthole Surfers
• Caribou
• The Dirtbombs
• Do Make Say Think
• The Doobie Brothers
• Dream Theater, Mike Portnoy's Siamese Monster Kit as well as the Albino Monster Kit were set up for Double Drumming
• Ensiferum
• The Fall, especially on the album Hex Enduction Hour.
• Finntroll
• Fugazi, for their album The Argument
• The Funk Brothers
• Genesis
• The Go! Team
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Grateful Dead
• James Brown
• King Crimson
• KISS Used on Nothin' to Lose and Rock & Roll All Nite on MTV Unplugged
• Korn, On their 2006 See you on the Other Side Tour.
• Led Zeppelin, during their performance at Live Aid, had both Tony Thompson and Phil Collins on drums
• John Lennon when he had Elephants memory backing him in 1972
• The Melvins
• Metallica Live tour for the black album
• Miles Davis on Bitches Brew
• Ministry , featured on In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
• Modest Mouse only live since the release of Good News for People who love Bad News
• Murder, Inc.
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on their Abattoir Blues Tour
• Nine Inch Nails
• Norther
• Pavement
• Pink Fairies
• Pink Floyd, on the live DVD Pulse from 1995
• Shadows Fall
• Slipknot
• Queens of the Stone Age
• Sigue Sigue Sputnik
• Smashing Pumpkins
• Showaddywaddy
• K.T. Tunstall, while performing at the BRIT Awards in 2005.
• Wolf And Cub
• Manowar, in the live at the Earthshaker Festival (DVD "The absolute power"), in the song Battle Hymns, where Scott Columbus play with 2 former members of Manowar (Donny Hamzik and Rhino).
• Godsmack<
• Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention

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