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Erik Truelove may be the â€œWorldâ€™s Most Accurate Drummer,â€ but he is also a skilled professional who believes that keeping solid time is the most important contribution a drummer can make to music.A natural musician, Truelove was only 10 when he began performing in junior and senior high school bands. At 15, he bought his first drum set and taught himself, playing by ear. Heâ€™s been performing ever since and has seriously expanded his knowledge of drumming through countless drum clinics, videos and books.Today, Truelove can be found touring with bands internationally, in a Nashville recording studio or on the eclectic Fourth Avenue in Tucson performing with local bands when not teaching at the Tucson Drum Studio he founded in 2001. Also a drummer for hire, Truelove has performed throughout the U.S., and also in Germany, Austria and Mexico, touring Europe in 2007 with Rich Hopkins & the Luminarios. In January of 2008, 2007 and 2006 Truelove took home the â€œWorldâ€™s Most Accurate Drummer" title at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California and at the Drum Corp. International finals in August of 2007, competing against 500 other drummers . Those accolades lead to a national sponsorship with Onboard Research Corp., the company who developed The Beatnik, a â€œrhythmic analyzerâ€ product that combines a traditional drum pad with a computerized metronome.If not on the road or performing in Tucson, he is holding drum clinics at the Guitar Centers and other locations or teaching privately. A consummate drummer and instructor, Truelove has given an average of more than 1,000 lessons and 100 performances per year for the past three years. He began teaching drums in 1999 while living in Seattle, both privately and at the Edmonds CyberSchool, a resource center for home-schooled children.While teaching provides a fulfilling addition to his musical repertoire, Truelove says that performing and recording are his primary focus. His goal this year is to perform with or join an emerging or nationally established band.For additional information visit www.eriktruelove.com. MyGen Profile Generator

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Member Since: 11/6/2005
Band Website: ErikTruelove.com
Band Members:Excerpt from Erik's Guitar Center Drum Clinic 10/03/07 Above: August 4th 2007 Rosebowl Stadium- see BLOGClick here to visit the Silverfox MySpace!
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new hobbies

Being self employed as it were, you can sometimes get so absorbed in your work that you can end up leaving very little time for relaxation or recreation. Theres no time clock to punch out on. Being ...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:47:00 PST

Getting my feet wet in the studio (my studio)

So I started building a home recording studio about a year ago and recently just got it up and running. The first project that came out of it was the "Jamadaweek" video that is on my page that I did ...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:27:00 PST

DRUM! magazine April ’08

Hey all,here is the article from the April issue of DRUM! that I was talkin’ about. Have a great day!Erik...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:27:00 PST

Arizona Daily Wildcat Article

Local drummer 'world's most accurate' By: Laura Hawkins Issue date: 2/7/08 Section: WildLife Erik Truelove has upstaged hundreds of professional drummers, earning himself the title of "Wo...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:08:00 PST

Official Press Release

For Immediate Release ; Jan. 28, 2007 &...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:21:00 PST

NAMM Show 2008 BLOG (win 4)

The NAMM show this year was fantastic. Although I didn't take near as many pictures or meet as many celebs, it was still awesome. I had decided that I was there mostly for business purposes and had an...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:26:00 PST

Whiskey Song 29

So in Dec. of 2007 I was hired to lay down a few drum tracks for a new artist who goes by the name "The Young Whiskey" aka Mark Wystrach, but you may know him as "Fox Crane" of the TV soap "Passions" ...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:05:00 PST

The END of an ERA

So after nearly 3 years crawling in the muddy trenches of 80's cover band boot camp, I have quit the Mockingbirds and am making room for bigger and better things in my life. I'd like to say thank...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:01:00 PST

2007 year in review

Hey friend, thanks for taking a minute to read my blogs. I haven't written one in a while, so I figured it was time. Ahhhh.... 2007 what can I say? It doesn't get any better? While that maybe true, I ...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:21:00 PST

Hometown Press......

What a cool thing to have your hometown newspaper put you on the front page. All I can say is wow and thanks. I'm hoping to go back home to Grants Pass, Oregon this summer and attend my 20 year highsc...
Posted by Erik Truelove on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:56:00 PST