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Emmanuelle Caplette

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Drum and bugle corps at nine, a competition snare drummer before she ever played a kit professionally, and now one of drumming's clearest educators — 20 million YouTube views and the book "Smile! You're Drumming". Sonor shells, Sabian cymbals, and hands built on a practice pad.

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2021 — Smile! You're Drumming

The year of her book and of Drumeo's Jim Chapin Award for Education. A conventional kit, deliberately — her whole argument is that the gear is not the answer, and that most of what makes a drummer good happens on a flat surface with no drums attached.

Bass drum — Sonor kit Floor tom — Sonor kit Rack tom — Sonor kit Rack tom — Sonor kit Snare — Sonor 14" snare 14"Hi-hats — Sabian Hi-hats Crash — Sabian Crashes Ride — Sabian Ride
The 2021 kit at a glance. Tap a piece to find it below; sticks, pedals and hardware aren't drawn.
Sonor kit ⤷ who plays this
Sonor 14" snare corps hands — clean doubles, even singles, an immaculate roll ⤷ who plays this
Sabian Hi-hats ⤷ who plays this
Sabian Crashes ⤷ who plays this
Sabian Ride ⤷ who plays this
Evans heads ⤷ who plays this
Vic Firth sticks ⤷ who plays this
Practice pad the actual instrument, on her account of it ⤷ who plays this

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