The best drum websites, by what each does best
There are maybe eight drum websites genuinely worth your time, and they are good at different things. Here is what each one does best, so you spend your practice break reading the right one.
Updated July 13, 2026
News and magazines
Modern Drummer
The institution. Interviews, features, and lessons since 1977; if a drummer mattered in the last five decades, they sat for a Modern Drummer interview, and the archive of those conversations is the closest thing drumming has to a historical record. Read it for depth, not speed.
Sick Drummer Magazine
The metal desk. Extreme and underground drummers get real coverage here that mainstream outlets never give them: interviews, playthroughs, audition news, tour announcements. If your listening leans heavy, this is your magazine.
Drumeo Beat
Drumeo's editorial arm. Drummer stories, technique breakdowns, and drum culture writing with actual production budget behind it. It exists to feed the lesson platform, but the articles stand on their own.
Learning
Drumeo
The biggest structured-lesson platform, and the rare case where the biggest is also the best. Courses, coaches, and a YouTube channel that gives away more good teaching free than most sites charge for. Pair it with a real practice routine or it becomes very well-produced procrastination.
Drummerworld
The encyclopedia. A profile and performance footage for nearly every significant drummer alive or dead, all free. When our jazz drummers guide tells you to go watch Elvin Jones, Drummerworld is where the watching happens. The design is vintage; the archive is priceless.
Gear research
Drummer's Review
UK-based, video-first, and rigorous about it: every review is properly miked and played hard, so you can hear a snare's crack instead of trusting someone's adjectives. Watch here first, then go argue about it on the forums.
Drum Spy
Release tracking and roundups. New kit lines, limited runs, price movements. Useful as an early-warning system for gear you did not know you were about to want.
Community
Covered properly in our guide to the drum forums still worth joining: Drummerworld's forum for the archive, DFO for vintage and trading, VDrums for electronic kits, and r/drums when you want an answer within the hour.
Where Drumlist fits
We read all of the above, every day, plus the brand announcements and the video channels, and put the week's worthwhile items in one Saturday email and on the Drumlist front page. The sites in this guide are the sources; this is the filter.
The short version: Modern Drummer for depth, Sick Drummer if you play heavy, Drumeo to learn, Drummerworld to watch the greats, Drummer's Review before you buy, Drum Spy to know what is coming, and the forums for everything with a debate in it.
Common questions
- What is the best website to learn drums?
- Drumeo, if you want structure and are willing to pay; their free YouTube output alone beats most paid courses. Drummerworld if you learn by watching the greats: it hosts profile pages and performance video for practically every drummer who ever mattered, free.
- Is Drummerworld still active?
- Yes, both the site and its forum. The design has not changed much in a decade, which people tease it for, but the archive underneath (thousands of drummer profiles, clips, and twenty years of forum threads) has no real substitute anywhere on the internet.
- What is the best site for drum gear reviews?
- Drummer's Review for video: every review is filmed, miked properly, and played by working drummers, so you hear the gear instead of reading adjectives about it. Drum Spy for staying on top of releases and roundups. For long-term ownership opinions, the forums often beat any review site.
- What is the best drum magazine now that print is mostly gone?
- Modern Drummer is the institution still standing: over 45 years of interviews and features, now digital-first. Sick Drummer covers the metal and extreme side that mainstream outlets mostly ignore.
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