Drum It With Brummet

    Drum Trash As a drummer, sustainable entrepreneur and instrument inventor, I am forever finding uses for items often thrown away.  Reuse cowbells: A broken cowbell can be cut down to a smaller version of what it once was but with a higher pitch.  I once cut down a large, cracked cowbell to about a third of its original size. It turned out to have a very unique, high pitch not readily found on the percussion market.  ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

50 years of innovative funnky music from this band - Tower of Power ... check out this full concert  ( David Garibaldi on drumset) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVbeMyQaH1Q ~~~     Find our Books:   on Amazon Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    Answering Your Q's  Q:  What can you tell us about the history of drums? Drums were almost lost in history. They flourished from 9000 to 4000BC with the Dionysus (mother-goddess) cults but were eliminated when Christianity came to dominate. The drums were all but eliminated from culture except for parts of West Africa.   That is why it is often thought that the birthplace of drums is Africa, however they can be found in neolithic cultures and animal species that drum too around the globe.  Drums were brought to the New World with the slaves and they influenced the birth of Latin, Reggae, Calypso, American Jazz and the birth of the drum-set. The drum-set does what would traditionally have been played by a group of people.Today cultural living is common, and with that comes a blend of traditional music. Historically, in Africa, they had royal drums, which only the masters could touch. They were kept in a hut where food offerings were made to them. T...

    Sound Quotes Sharing inspirational, informative,  amusing quotes from people in the music industry.  Want to submit a quote with our audience?  Find our  Submission Guidelines & Contact Information   HERE " Music is like a conversation.  One person says one thing  that speaks with a harmonica,  with a bass, with a drum.  They're all conversating,  and we're just trying to find a way  to make conversation  But it's not really so hard a thing to do  if you know the way to approach it." ~ Stephen Marley ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

Drum It Forward In 2009 I organized the Drum it Forward project after hearing of the condition of percussion instruments at a local school. My drum student mentioned that his school had no drums to play due to the fact the instruments were in disrepair and no one could fix them. Deciding to do something about it, I arranged with the school to repair their drum set as well as various hand drums and some marimbas. Now their music class had rhythm once again. I recognized that other teachers may not have the budget or skills to maintain drums and percussion instruments and likely would appreciate this help I could give. I was able to help out numerous schools in the interior of BC offering my skills to fix their drums and percussion - and did several trips... loaded up the RV with my wife, two dogs, boxes of parts and drum heads. I donated 2 - 3 labour hours servicing instruments at each school, college or community music teaching centre; piecing together what they had and drawing from th...

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