Drum It With Brummet

    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 "I'm always getting injuries  like bruised and bloody knuckles f rom catching a cymbal  or the edge of a drum." ~  Tommy Lee ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

Love to listen to this one when we are hanging out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYE3_iTNlc ~~~     Find our Books:   on Amazon Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    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 "One of the instruments that really stuck out to me was the talking drum,   which is basically the first type of communication device.  It's a drum you put on your shoulder,  and you can pitch it with your arm,  and you can 'talk' with it." ~  Ludwig Goransson ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    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...