{{short description|Canadian drummer}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2011}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Tim Waterson | image = | image_size = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB --> | birth_place = | origin = Canada | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date 1st) --> | death_place = | genre = | occupation = Drummer | instrument = Bass drum | years_active = <!-- YYYY–YYYY (or –present) --> | label = | associated_acts = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} '''Tim Waterson''' is a Canadian drummer<ref>[https://drummagazine.com/how-the-worlds-fastest-pedal-got-its-start/ "How The ‘World’s Fastest Pedal’ Got Its Start"]. ''Drum Magazine'', April 15, 2018, BY PHIL HOOD</ref> who holds the world record for the fastest number of double strokes on a bass drum using a double pedal, with a record of 1,407 in one minute (January 22, 2002).<ref>[http://www.rockdrummingsystem.com/underground/drum-reviews/axis-longboards-pedals.php "Axis Longboards - Double Pedals Review"]. ''Rockdrumming Underground'', accessed Dec 7, 2019</ref><ref name="Institute2013">Bathroom Readers' Institute. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=eilZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT69 Uncle John's InfoMania Bathroom Reader For Kids Only!]''. Portable Press; 1 March 2013. {{ISBN|978-1-60710-790-3}}. p. 69.</ref>
==Career== Waterson started an organization to promote speed drumming as a sport.<ref name=mouallem>[https://www.avenueedmonton.com/december-2010/edmonton-record-holders/ "Edmonton Record Holders"]. ''Avenue Magazine'', December 2010. by Omar Mouallem</ref> In 2006 he performed 1,075 single-stroke rolls on a bass drum in 60 seconds. <ref name=mouallem />
In 2007 Waterson released a two-DVD set, ''Techniques, Motions and Applications for Bass Drum Playing''.
Waterson uses the heel-toe technique<ref>[https://www.drumradar.com/heel-up-vs-heel-down-drumming/ "Heel Up vs. Heel Down Drumming – Bass Drum Technique"]. ''Drum.Radar'' website - accessed Dec 7, 2019</ref> and also invented the pump technique for fast single strokes. His use of the Vruk heel pedal system enables him to perform a modified version of heel-toe playing. Tim is profiled in the book ''Believe the Unbelievable'' by Bartley Press.
==References== <references/>
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016045454/http://www.drums.com/interviews/tim.html Interview on YouTube]
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