Benny Greb

Benny Greb
Background information
Born June 13, 1980 (1980-06-13) (age 31)
Origin Augsburg, Germany
Genres New Wave/rock , Jazz
Occupations Musician, Music Teacher
Instruments Drums, Percussion,
Years active 2002 – Present
Website http://www.bennygreb.de/

Benny Greb (born on June 13, 1980 in Augsburg, Germany) is a prolific German drummer and clinician. He started playing the drums at age six and began taking lessons at age twelve. He plays a large variety of music and can be seen playing rock with Stoppok and The Ron Spielman Trio, jazz with The Benny Greb Brass Band and Sabri Tulug Tirpan, funk with Jerobeam, reggae with Bobby McFerrin, fusion with the NDR Big Band on their Frank Zappa Project, with 3erGezimmeR and Wayne Krantz, and acoustic punk with Strom & Wasser. He has also performed at the Modern Drummer Festival 2010.

Greb appeared on the scene in 2009 with his Hudson Music DVD "The Language of Drumming".

Greb endorses Sonor drums, Meinl cymbals and percussion, Remo drum heads, and Pro-Mark sticks. With Meinl, he designed the Filter X Trash Hat, a 12" splash and 14" china stack that delivers a trashy auxiliary hi-hat sound, and the Byzance Vintage Sand Ride, a dry cymbal with a sandblasted top and partially lathed bottom. Recently, he developed the Byzance Vintage Sand Hats, hi hats with a similar construction to his signature ride.[1]

Contents

Equipment

Current kit

Clinics and Performances

Clinics in 2010
Benny Greb is embarking upon a short run of clinics at select North American Meinl Cymbal and Sonor Drum Dealers. Current dates are as follows:

Clinics in 2011

External links

Notes

  1. ^ http://meinlcymbals.com/blog/blog_post/archive/2010/08/march/article/the_new_benny_greb_sand_hat.html?cHash=0c9f8690e0