Do You Have What it Takes to be THE WORLD’S FASTEST DRUMMER??
PROVE IT!
NAMM International announces the eleventh outing to find the ‘World’s Fastest Drummer’. This highly charged Interactive Event is a feature at this year’s Summer NAMM Show in Nashville, TN.. The contest, which consists of two categories, Fastest Hands and Fastest Feet, will be held each day on World’s Fastest Drummer Lobby Stage at the Nashville Convention Center starting at 11:00am Thursday, July 21st, with “heats” continuing through 1:00pm on public day Saturday July 23rd. The top ten Fastest Hands and top ten Fastest Feet will compete in a ‘Finals Battle’ of both categories held Saturday, July 23rd.
Note: Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd. Preliminaries are for NAMM Members only. Saturday 23rd is open to the public with a Wanna Play Music Day ticket. WFD will have public preliminaries starting at 10:00 a.m. and running till 1:00 pm. World Finals Battle is at 2:00 pm Saturday July 23rd.
WFD-Extreme Sport Drumming has been a feature on The Warped Tour, OzzFest and most major networks including ESPN, FOX SPORTS, MTV, VH1, ABC, BBC, PBS and CNN. WFD The Game produced well over 1.5 million plays for MTV’s Addicting Games in it’s first 90 days. WFD is the official ruling and certification organization for Guinness World Records.
“WFD as an X-Sport is celebrating it’s 10th year anniversary. We are totally elated to commemorate this 10 year milestone with NAMM in Nashville. This will truly be an awesome WFD Official World Finals. If you think your local coffee shop manager is a bundle of energy, wait till you get a load of these guys! says Boo McAfee, creator of WFD-Extreme Sport Drumming.
Contestants should sign in at World’s Fastest Drummer Contest stage area located at the WFD lobby stage in The Nashville Convention Center starting the morning of Thursday, July. 21st.
WFD Competition @ Rhythm Base in Scotland! To mark the launch day of their new store, Rhythm Base will be hosting the World's Fastest Drummer Contest
on
Saturday, 11th September 2010. The winner of the Battle of the Hands contest will win £500.00 to spend in-store!!
NEW! WFD LICENSING KIT - Host Your Own WFD Events!
Spring 2010 WFD Event in Hawaii!
WFD competitions will be happening at
"A Day Of Percussion" Sat. March 06, 2010
McKay Auditorium
@ BYU-Hawaii
Laie, Hawaii
presented by the BYU-Hawaii Department of Fine Arts and the Percussive Arts Society
Nov - Dec, 2008:Press Release
Indy's Fastest Drummer Contest
at CHOPS Percussion: Indianapolis IN
Rules:
• Enter as many times as you'd like. Only one entry per day.
• Score equals the number of single strokes you can play in 30 seconds. No rolls allowed.
• Fastest score wins the Pearl Chad Smith Signature snare drum
• Second fastest score wins the Pearl P-1000 foot pedal
WFD SINGAPORE, 2008!
Singapore Drumfest Main Event
September 13 & 14
12pm – 6pm
Fort Canning Centre http://www.singaporedrumfest.com/ for more information,
DVDs,
Videos,
Drumometers, Drum-O-Pads,
Drum-O-Triggers,
Accessories, T-Shirts
and More Available! Visit the New
WFD Online Store
CONTEST
RULES
1. All contestants for both Battle of the Hands™ and Battle
of the Feet™ competitions will be scored on playing single
strokes (no bounces, presses or buzz)
for 60 SECONDS and recorded by the Drumometer™.
2. Contestants may run as many times as they like during the Preliminary
Heats.
3. Contestants' top Preliminary score will be used toward Finals
qualifying.
4. Preliminary scores will NOT be used to determine Grand Prize
winners!
5. FINALS scores will be the ONLY scores
used to determine GRAND PRIZE winners.
6. NOTE that WFD Champions AND previous GRAND PRIZE winners are
ineligible for prizes. 7.
It is the contestant's responsibility to verify if he/she qualified
for the Finals and to be signed in.
8. Due to filming and various time restraints,
there will be NO equipment changes.
9. WFD only recognizes
scores from Official WFD sanctioned events.
10. World Record scores MUST
be witnessed and certified by proper WFD officials.
11. Judges decisions are
FINAL!
