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Benjamin Porter: Drummer/Percussionist
Welcome to my online portfolio.
In this site, you will find background information about my drumming history. -Ben
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Equipment Used
Drums- 1975 Vintage Slingerland Black Beauty Maple Drums: Steel Snare: 5"x14", Tom: 10"x12", Tom: 10"x 13, Tom: 11"x 14", Floor Tom: 18"x16", Bass Drum: 18"x22" 2008 C&C Custom Maple Drums (Silver Broken Glass Sparkle): 12" tom, 14" floor tom, 20" bass 2007 Ludwig Maple Vintage look Snare Drum (Emerald Green Sparkle): 5"x14" Snare Cymbals- Sabian: 14" AAX Stage Hats -- 17" AAX Stage Crash -- 10" AA Splash -- 18" AA Medium Crash -- 20" AAX Stage Ride -- 18" AA Chinese Cymbal Sticks- Vic Firth: 5A Wood Tip, 8D Wood Tip, Jazz brush, Jazz rake, Bams, T1 American Custom Timpani Mallets, M3 American Custom Keyboard Mallets, and Promark: Lightning Rods, Hot Rods Home Made by David Porter: Rods Percussion- Toca: Hi Hat Tamborine Latin Percussion: Soft Shake (Shaker) Hardware- Drum Workshop: 5000 Hi Hat stand, 5000 Double Bass pedal, and 9700 Straight/Boom stand, 5300 Snare stand, Tom stand attachment Drum Heads- Remo: Snare- coated ambassador Toms- clear pinstripe/ coated ambassador Bass- power stroke 3 with double falam slam pad/ coated power stroke 3 with double falam slam pad/ power stroke 4 (front)
Drumming Influences
Ringo Starr, Buddy Rich, Steve Gadd, Vinnie Colaiuta, Greg Ritchie, Adrian Gardner, Louie Weaver, Matt Cameron, Jeremy Taggart, Lars Ulrich, Chad Smith, Travis Barker, Chad Sexton, Wuv, Rodney Holmes, Jojo Mayer, and Max Wienberg.
Music Influences
King David, David Porter, Cathy Porter, Catherine Porter, Andrew Porter, Beethoven, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Metallica, Nirvana, Petra, Relient K, P.O.D., Quincy Jones, Toby McKeehan, The Yellow Jackets, Eric Clapton, Goo Goo Dolls, Cross Movement, Skillet, Switchfoot, Matt Redman, Lauryn Hill, and The Funk Brothers. As seen here Benjamin plays a very versatile style of music, ranging from Jazz, Gospel, Soul, R&B, Funk, Hip Hop, Rock, Grunge, Metal, Salsa, Flamenco, and Big Band. He uses a traditional style of grip and sticking as well as the match stick grip style.
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