Dialtune Hosts First-Ever Drum Clinic with Kyle Smith at West Coast Drum Shop

Dialtune had been building toward something like this for a while. On March 4, 2026, it finally happened: the drum hardware brand hosted its first-ever clinic at West Coast Drum Shop in Bellevue, WA, with session drummer Kyle Smith, better known online as The Arizona Drummer, holding court for a room of drummers who came ready to participate.

The clinic kicked off at 5:30 PM, with check-in starting at 5:15. At $25 a ticket, the evening drew an intimate crowd, and West Coast Drum Shop had warned early on that space was limited. The night leaned into exactly that intimacy. As Dialtune described it in their March 10 wrap: "Just a room full of drummers, honest conversation, and a lot of time behind the kit."

Smith brought more than two decades of professional session work to the clinic, along with the credibility of The Arizona Drummer, his YouTube channel with more than 100,000 subscribers and over 1,400 videos. But the moment that defined the night was interactive and unrehearsed. Dialtune's recap described it directly: Smith walked the room through how to learn a new song fast, then proved the point by having the audience shout out titles he'd never heard before. He listened once and played them on the spot, then broke down his process: the patterns, the cues, the structure. It's the kind of ear-training and adaptability that matters when a last-minute gig lands and you need to be tour-ready in days.

Smith is part of what Dialtune calls its artist community, though the brand is deliberate about how that relationship works. "Not because of a traditional endorsement deal," Dialtune wrote. "Kyle plays what he loves, tells the truth about gear, and helps us build better drums by actually using them in real situations."

That philosophy was on full display through the kit he played: the brand-new Dialtune Drum Set, which had just begun shipping at the time of the clinic. Dialtune noted it was "one of the first times anyone outside our team had played it live in front of a crowd." The set is built on 100% North American maple shells and features the company's patented cable tuning system, quick-release hoops, and independent dials for both the top and bottom heads on every drum.

March 4 also served as Dialtune Day at West Coast Drum Shop, a free, all-day event that ran alongside the ticketed clinic. Attendees who arrived early could explore Dialtune snare drums at special pricing, pick up brand swag, and get in on in-store giveaways and demos before the 5:30 start.

West Coast Drum Shop, which hosts clinics and classes across styles from rock and jazz to funk and world rhythms, positioned the event as open to drummers of all levels. For Dialtune, it marked a first step into live, in-person education, with a clinician whose background is built on exactly the kind of real-world, working-drummer experience the brand says it wants informing its gear development.