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Welcome to the website of multi-percussionist Pete Lockett. Pete is one of the most versatile multi-percussionists in the world, having immersed himself in percussion and drums from every part of the globe, from Indian to Arabic and from Japanese to Latin.He has a number of collaborative projects and has released five albums. The wide range of artists he’s worked with reflects the diversity of his playing, inc: Björk, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, Dido, Jeff Beck, Bill Bruford, David Torn, Vikku Vinayakram, Selva Ganesh, Ustad Zakir Hussain, The Verve, Steve Smith, Texas, Damien Rice, Craig Armstrong, Bernard Butler, U Shrinivas, Ronan Keating, Nitin Sawhney, Evan Dando, Adrian Sherwood, Afro Celt Sound System, Vanessa-Mae, David Arnold, Evelyn Glennie, Errol Brown, Jarvis Cocker, Rory Gallagher, Pet Shop Boys, Beth Orton, Hari Haran, Mel C, A R Rahman, Eumir Deodato, BBC concert orchestra, DJ Judge Jules, Sinead O'Conner and lots more!

This web site is more than a standard artists web site. Besides being a showcase for Pete and his projects, the site is one of the most visited drum and percussion resource sites on the net with hundreds of drum / percussion lessons free to download without registration.

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ABOUT PETE NEWS/EVENTS PHOTOS PRESS CONTACT

MEDIA ZONE FREE LESSONS LINKS PERFORMANCE OPTIONS

Petes new percussion APP for iDevices developed with Sonosaurus LLC.

Pete's Projects

TAALISMAN With Amit Chatterjee [A rich mix of global percussive styles, Ragas & electronics]

PARALLAX BEAT BROTHERS [An electro-acoustic duo with the digital media artist Scanner]

KINGDOM OF RHYTHM [Duo with Bickram Ghosh]

TAIKO TO TABLA [Multi-cultural World music project featuring Joji Hirota ]

NETWORK OF SPARKS [Dynamic and versatile percussion quintet featuring Bill Bruford ]

BUY PETE LOCKETT'S NEW CD
ABOUT TIME Released May 2010

Latest additions to the site

TABLA VIDEO LESSONS - An introduction to the instrument

INDIAN RHYTHMS FOR DRUM SET - VIDEO LESSONS

KANJIRA VIDEO INTRODUCTION

Check out Pete's new sample CD on Loopmasters. Click the image above.

Available online + info, HERE Download a free track HERE

Also, Pete's new book 'Indian rhythms for the drum set' got five stars and was in the Top five books 2010 in Modern Drummer. Click here to visit the HUDSON web site

Email Petes assistant Lucy for online recording options by internet. EMAIL LINK

[Check out the videos below, inc lots of solo stuff and duets with STEVE SMITH, SELVA GANESH, ZORO, JOHNNY RABB, BENNY GREB, BICKRAM GHOSH & lots more!!]

Pete was voted best live percussionist 2005 by readers of Rhythm magazine and best percussionist 2005 by subscribers to mikedolbear.com. Pete's Album, Taiko to Tabla with Joji Hirota included in top 55 rhythm albums of all time in Songlines magazine, August 2006

Watch recent TV specials in India (Web page with links)

Bill Bruford and Steve Smith comment on Pete

Bill Bruford
You’re never going to meet anyone quite like Pete Lockett, with that kind of ability and energy. He’s a force of nature. He’s been taken to the bosom of some of the highest-calibre classical Indian percussionists, who want to share their art form with him.

Pete is persistent. He deserves all the success he has. His career has really rocketed since 1998, when he and I recorded [the One album by] the percussion quintet Network Of Sparks. I believe Pete and I are kindred spirits in that we both stem from the idea that modern pop rhythms in the West are rather dull with 2-4, up-down. Everything attached to that is cosmetic, but any way you skin it, it remains 2-4. Pete knows that life can be so much more interesting for us drummers in the West. Once you see the musical light from the point of view of someone like Pete, who has a very advanced sense of Indian rhythm, there are all kinds of interesting things you can bring to Western pop music.

Pete does big movie scores. When you see James Bond running through a Vietnamese marketplace, knocking all the vegetable stands over, you’re hearing Pete in the background. He knows the origin of the instruments and finds the music of other cultures much more interesting than ours. And I have to agree. If I tried to do anything at all in my drumming career, it was to try to bring other things into dull pop. Pete and I come at it from different angles, but we are both aware that there are some wonderful rhythms out there.

What I also love about Pete is that he is the ultimate world traveling, one-man percussion lesson/concert. In other words, for readers who don’t know of Pete’s talents, he can do a two-hour solo show, no problem, with lights, unbelievable electronics, and audio backdrops. He could easily do a two-hour lecture on Indian vocal rhythms and clapping. He could do a two-hour lecture on tabla. He can thrill anybody in any town square pretty much anywhere in the world with kanjira, which is a small instrument. He has the whole frame-drum thing down. He has the tabla thing down. He plays rock drums like crazy. He’s released books on rock drumming and now has released the amazing Indian Rhythms For Drumset educational package. He’s a really valuable character, doing really valuable work.

I think in twenty-five years’ time, kids will be learning Indian classical rhythms and learning to vocalize them and clap in the Indian tradition as much as they’ll be doing Western drum rhythms for their basic drum instruction. I think the world will be a whole lot better place as a result of that. And I think everybody will say, “Oh, I remember Pete Lockett started all this.”

Steve Smith
Since we met in 2003 Pete Lockett has become a friend, inspiration, teacher and collaborator. As one of a few musicians who is a virtuoso in both North Indian and South Indian percussion, his abilities on the tabla (from the North Indian Hindustani tradition) and kanjira and konnakol (from South Indian Carnatic music) are world-class. Significantly, Pete is not only acknowledged and appreciated by Westerners, but he has been accepted into the rarefied circle of maestros of both North and South Indian percussion, no easy feat!

I like the fact that Pete has taken his knowledge of Indian instruments, rhythms and techniques, along with his innate knowledge of Western music and has applied these skills into a unique “world-view” of percussion. This inclusive approach incorporates rhythms and percussion instruments from around the globe. Pete has the kind of high-level musicianship that is a universal language, crossing all boundaries of style or culture.

To me, that is what makes him a valuable contributor in a musical situation and outstanding as a solo artist. Pete and I have played duo concerts together, he is featured on my latest Vital Information recording Vitalization and Pete has performed live with my band, contributing a beautiful mix of colours, texture, groove and excitement. I look forward to more collaborations and lessons with Pete!

Dirty Linen World music magazine. "Pete Lockett's performance was a pulse-pounding rhythmic odyssey, full of complex structures and invention".

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