The Rig Vault
Drummers' gear, through the years
A community collection of drum setups — era by era. Document your own kit's evolution, or build the definitive gear history of a drummer you love. Every piece of gear links to where you can buy it (or find it used on Reverb).
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- Latest era · 2023
Mauricio Extreme Drums
Maurício Weimar — born in Porto Alegre in 1980, trained in violin by the Porto Alegre Symp…
2023 · 1 era🥁 0 Diana Llerena Vasquez
A conservatory-trained percussionist from Arequipa who took salsa and cumbia timbal playin…
2023 · 1 era🥁 0Kriss Drummer
The professional name of Kristina Rybalchenko, who built past 650,000 Instagram followers …
2022 · 1 era🥁 0Buckets The Drummer
A shower curtain, a bathtub, a horse mask and one five-gallon bucket — and roughly 3.9 mil…
2024 · 1 era🥁 0- Latest era · 2022
Giulliana Merello
Karol G's drummer from 2020 to 2024, through the stadium years — and a Modern Drummer cove…
2022 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2023
Arthur Dubois
The French drummer who plays water. Acoustic drums fused with unconventional objects, Sens…
2023 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2023
Alex Cohen
Called "incredible" by Thomas Lang and "a revelation" by Virgil Donati — and Drumeo's Loui…
2023 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Ramon Montagner
The Brazilian educator who holds two sticks in one hand and plays independent parts with t…
2024 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2025
Jamal Moore
Ariana Grande, Usher, the Backstreet Boys, TLC, Kelly Rowland and Stray Kids' dominATE wor…
2025 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2025
Caleb Hayes
A young English drummer, self-taught from the age of two, playing fast and clean rock and …
2025 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2025
Domino Santantonio
A Montreal touring drummer — Roxane Bruneau's, before the internet noticed — whose fifteen…
2025 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2025
Jonathan Barber
Vision Ahead's bandleader and UConn faculty — a drummer who plays straight-ahead jazz on a…
2025 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2011
Queen Cora Coleman
Prince's drummer in the New Power Generation from 2005 to 2010, and Beyoncé's from May 201…
2011 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2022
Fred Eltringham
Sheryl Crow's drummer and a Nashville first call — ACM Drummer of the Year in 2018. A thre…
2022 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2025
Cody Ash
Jelly Roll's drummer through the run that took him from mixtapes to arenas, and Drumeo's C…
2025 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2023
Harry Miree
Hardy's drummer, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, and the man who talked Charles Ba…
2023 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2026
Billy Freeman
Dustin Lynch's drummer and the first winner of Drumeo's country award, in 2021. A Nashvill…
2021 – 2026 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2023
Tosh Peterson
Touring since sixteen, and by his early twenties had played for Fall Out Boy, Lady Gaga, M…
2023 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2025
II
Sleep Token's masked drummer and the most-decorated player in Drumeo's history — Drummer O…
2025 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2018
Larnell Lewis
The Snarky Puppy drummer who learned "Enter Sandman" from a single listen and recorded it …
2018 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2014
Gregg Bissonette
David Lee Roth's drummer in the Eat 'Em and Smile band, a Los Angeles session fixture for …
2008 – 2014 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2021
Emmanuelle Caplette
Drum and bugle corps at nine, a competition snare drummer before she ever played a kit pro…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2022
Sarah Jones
A founding member of New Young Pony Club who became a first-call touring drummer for Hot C…
2022 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2023
Ashton Irwin
5 Seconds of Summer's drummer since 2011, playing arena pop on one of the biggest kits in …
2023 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Paulina Villarreal
The Warning's drummer and one of its lead singers — hard rock drum parts and a full lead v…
2024 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Roni Kaspi
Discovered on Instagram by Avishai Cohen in 2020 and in his trio at twenty. Thelma Yellin,…
2024 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Mark Guiliana
The drummer on David Bowie's Blackstar, and the man who worked out how to make an acoustic…
2016 – 2024 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Ulysses Owens Jr.
A three-time Grammy winner, Juilliard and New School faculty, and the drummer who taught D…
2024 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2023
Steve Jordan
Keith Richards' drummer since 1986, John Mayer's for a decade, a producer for four decades…
2006 – 2023 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2022
Stanton Moore
Galactic's founding drummer and the New Orleans tradition's most visible teacher. Second-l…
2020 – 2022 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2021
Anderson .Paak
The drummer who sings lead from behind the kit — and does it without the time moving. Chur…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2021
Aaron Spears
Usher's drummer through the Confessions era, then Ariana Grande, Alicia Keys and a great m…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2022
Tony Royster Jr.
A national name at eleven and the youngest ever Vic Firth signature artist at thirteen — t…
2018 – 2022 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Mario Duplantier
Gojira's drummer since the band formed in 1996, alongside his brother Joe. The most restra…
2021 – 2024 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2022
Matt Garstka
Animals As Leaders' drummer since 2012, and the man who dragged gospel-chops vocabulary in…
2016 – 2022 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2018
Aric Improta
Night Verses' drummer and a co-founder of Fever 333, now in House of Protection. The drumm…
2018 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2021
Nandi Bushell
The English drummer who challenged Dave Grohl to a drum battle in 2020, won the internet, …
2021 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2025
Nate Smith
Three Drumeo awards across two genres — Jazz in 2021, Soul/Funk in 2022 and 2025. A warm, …
2017 – 2025 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2010
Roy Haynes
"Snap Crackle" — the bebop drummer who broke up the ride pattern and made it groove anyway…
1962 – 2010 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2022
Terri Lyne Carrington
Three Grammys, a professional union card at eleven, and the founder of the Berklee Institu…
2022 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Matt Cameron
Soundgarden from 1986 and Pearl Jam from 1998 — for a stretch in the 2010s, both at once. …
1994 – 2024 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Josh Dun
Half of Twenty One Pilots, and the whole rhythm section. A hybrid acoustic-and-electronic …
2015 – 2024 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Eloy Casagrande
Sepultura from 2011 to 2023, Slipknot since April 2024, and probably the best drummer in h…
2017 – 2024 · 2 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Tré Cool
Green Day's drummer since 1990, and a surf-rock player hiding inside a punk band. Two floo…
1994 – 2024 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2022
Jay Weinberg
Slipknot's drummer from 2014 to November 2023, across three albums, and the son of the E S…
2014 – 2022 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Scott Travis
Judas Priest's drummer since 1989 and the first American to join the band. He arrived with…
1990 – 2024 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2026
Terry Bozzio
The drummer who composes. Bozzio got the Zappa gig at 24 by sight-reading "The Black Page"…
1977 – 2026 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2012
Alex Van Halen
Van Halen's co-founder, and the man behind the biggest drum sound of the 1980s. Ludwig she…
1978 – 2012 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2022
Tomas Haake
Meshuggah's drummer since 1990, and the reason djent exists — his kit was sampled in full …
2008 – 2022 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Mike Portnoy
Dream Theater's co-founder, gone from 2010 and back since October 2023. A song drummer hid…
1992 – 2024 · 4 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2020
Questlove
The Roots' drummer, the Tonight Show's bandleader and the man who worked out how to play J…
2000 – 2020 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2020
Steve Gadd
The most copied session drummer of the last fifty years — "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", "…
1977 – 2020 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2025
Bill Ward
Black Sabbath's founding drummer, and the jazz player who gave heavy metal its swing. Slin…
1970 – 2025 · 3 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2022
Chad Smith
The Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer since 1988 and the reason their funk-rock actually swin…
1991 – 2022 · 4 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2024
Chris Slade
The Welsh drummer who played on AC/DC's The Razor's Edge, and before that Tom Jones, Manfr…
1984 – 2024 · 4 eras🥁 0 - 👑 Rig of the WeekLatest era · 2026
Ray Luzier
Korn's drummer since 2007, and before that eight years with David Lee Roth. A Pearl and Sa…
2013 – 2026 · 5 eras🥁 1 - Latest era · 2013
Zak Starkey
Ringo Starr's son, Keith Moon's godson, and The Who's drummer from 1996 to 2025 — then fir…
1975 – 2019 · 8 eras🥁 0 - Latest era · 2021
George Kollias
Greek extreme metal drummer for Nile since 2004, celebrated for blistering single-foot bla…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2021
Greyson Nekrutman
Young New York jazz drummer who blew up on social media recreating classic performances by…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2021
Joey Jordison
Founding Slipknot drummer and nu-metal icon whose double bass, blast beats and intricate r…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0 - Latest era · 2023
Tommy Lee
Mötley Crüe's showman — the most-searched drummer on the planet, famous as much for drummi…
1989 – 2023 · 3 eras - Latest era · 2009
Dave Grohl
The drummer of Nirvana before he was the frontman of Foo Fighters — one of the hardest hit…
1991 – 2009 · 3 eras - Latest era · 1985
Phil Collins
Genesis drummer turned megastar — and the man behind the most famous drum fill ever record…
1973 – 1985 · 3 eras - Latest era · 2021
Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters' beloved powerhouse from 1997 until his passing in 2022 — a Roger Taylor disc…
1999 – 2021 · 2 eras - Latest era · 2019
Ringo Starr
The Beatle. The reason half the world's drummers started playing, and the owner of the mos…
1963 – 2019 · 3 eras 
Travis Barker
Blink-182's tattooed engine and pop-punk's most influential drummer — marching-band chops …
1996 – 2023 · 14 eras- Latest era · 1977
John Bonham
Led Zeppelin's once-in-history drummer. The heaviest right hand and fastest right foot roc…
1969 – 1977 · 3 eras - Latest era · 2015
Neil Peart
Rush's Professor — the most air-drummed drummer of all time. Four decades of meticulously …
1981 – 2015 · 3 eras - Latest era · 2023
Lars Ulrich
Metallica's co-founder and engine room — the Danish tennis prodigy who traded rackets for …
1986 – 2023 · 3 eras - Latest era · 2019
Danny Carey
Tool's polyrhythmic sorcerer and the thinking drummer's favourite drummer — 6'5" of jazz t…
1996 – 2019 · 3 eras - Latest era · 2026
Eric Moore
Stockton, California's finest — Guitar Center Drum-Off champion, founding voice of the Gos…
2012 – 2026 · 3 eras - Latest era · 2026
ZackGrooves
The East Carolina jazz graduate who became one of drum YouTube's funniest creators, then q…
2021 – 2026 · 2 eras - Latest era · 2026
66Samus
Samus Paulicelli — blast beats, filthy jokes and a million-plus subscribers. Ex-Decrepit B…
2021 – 2026 · 2 eras - Latest era · 2026
Chris Turner
Oceans Ate Alaska's founding drummer and one of the most precise players in metal — accura…
2017 – 2026 · 2 eras