WELCOME TO MY NEW PAGE!

Welcome to the online home of drummer, composer and producer

Forrest Robinson

Hello, my good brothers and sisters!!!

THANK YOU for visiting my site! I am endlessly thankful to God for blessing me with the love I have for music and the opportunity to share my gifts. I am humbled and honored to express my gratitiude to my endorsers for their endless support: GRETSCH Drums, MEINL Cymbals, TOCA Percussion, GIBRALTAR Hardware, ROLAND V-Drums, EVANS Drumheads, VATER Sticks, FUTZ Practice Pedals, E-Pad! practice pads, PHATFOOT drum harness and sustain pedal stabilizers, Artist Relations for the software synths from IK Multimedia, and BEHRINGER Audio. You can also visit me on my Myspace page.

Feel free to contact me if you need live drum tracks, drum programming, or production work. I recently acquired my own recording facility, so just give me a yell.

DRUM LESSONS: I am currently teaching privately at Coast Music Conservatory in Hermosa Beach, CA. For convenience, I also make house calls as long as there is PROPER SUPERVISION (for kids), you are equipped, and your neighbors won’t bite our heads off during the lesson process. I’d really like to keep my head. Just send me an email and we can discuss which direction you’d like to go with your skills. Jazz/Swing (Straight-Ahead, Big Band), Rock, Metal/Double-Bass, Punk, Trip-Hop, Breaks, Jungle, Dubstep, Hip Hop, Funk/R&B, World Rhythms, Hand Technique (Rudiments), as well as strengthening your music chart Reading Skills are a few areas I offer as a good starting point. If you don’t see your direction here, just ask! If there is something that I am not feeling, I WILL TELL YOU! Email me for rates and other information.

The GIGVAULT has been launched! This is an online music community for networking, cd reviews, and possible gig opportunities. More news to come from thia new site. But check it often, as content and information are added frequently.

The third cd release from JIVA, “Day Into Night” is now available. All tracks were written and produced by Khari Simmons (India.Arie), recorded and mixed by Alex Lowe, and co-produced by Forrest Robinson who also contributed rhythm arrangements for the record. Please visit JIVA on Myspace to hear more music from the band’s arsenal.

The Park Elevator label will be releasing a compilation cd featuring music from some of the best unsigned bands and artists around. The mission of this compilation is to help rebuild the world’s awareness to the gifts that music gives us everyday, as well as honor those who wish to instill hope in others through their music. Every cent of the proceeds will go to theAmerican Red Cross. This compilation will also feature music from artist, guitarist and songwriter Jermaine Rand as well as my own music.

I appear on Utada Hikaru‘s live dvd UTADA UNITED, available from Toshiba-EMI, as well as on Utada’s cd, ULTRA BLUE. I played live drums on the song “Yellow” from India.Arie’s latest cd and I appear on theMusic In High Places dvd: India.Arie: “Live In Brazil”. Well, that’s it for now, um… I think!!

May God richly bless each of you with Love, Health, Peace, and TRUTH!!JUST SAY NO to HYPOCRISY!