Jost Nickel | Vic Firth Drum Set Artist

Jost Nickel is one of the new breed of drummers emerging from Germany. A top session and tour player and drum clinician, like his friends and contemporaries Benny Greb, Marco Minnemann and Anika Nilles (one of Jost’s students). Jost was nominated “Best Clinician” by Modern Drummer Magazine in 2016 and was voted on MusicRadar’s list of “the 10 best drum clinicians in the world” in 2016 & 2017. He has released two best-selling books through Alfred Publishing: “Jost Nickel’s Groove Book” (2015) and “Jost Nickel’s Fill Book” (2017), which was nominated “best educational product 2019” by Modern Drummer Magazine.