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 Drumheads: Cut strips from snare side head (thinner) for mounting snare wires. Also the snare side is in better shape as it isn't hit. Utilize the aluminum rings from old drumheads for flesh rings on hand drums (cut off mylar and smooth any sharp edges). Use as parts trays in workshop. Give away to less fortunate drummers if not too damaged - drummers change out their heads regularly and their "used" heads are in better condition than a beginning drummer's.  In an upcoming post I describe how my extra parts and pieces helped to implement the Drum it Forward program to repair some school instruments. ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   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 "It's certainly no coincidence  that big bands became the entertainment  of the army in WWI and WWII,  and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced.  The snare drum comes from the military  and becomes the core sound of jazz drums." ~ Damien Chazelle  ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    Did you know that Dave is also an author ?  Find this book at:  https://www.amazon.ca/Down-Road-Collection-Dave-Brummet-ebook/dp/B0DYS8DVS9 His family memoir recently received this amazing review: “Lillian and Dave - your  Down the Road  feels like a time capsule cracked open with heartbeats still echoing inside.  Four generations, wars, migrations, love, grit you didn’t just write a memoir; you stitched a quilt out of history’s forgotten whispers.  The kind of book that smells like old photographs and coffee-stained letters. You two have done it all from talk radio to blogging to drumming up (literally) inspiration and somehow your story still deserves louder applause.”  ~ M. Meadows Aren't our readers absolutely wonderful !? ** Visit our full library of books & be sure to follow us there to be notified when we publish one of numerous #books in our publication schedule.   https://www.amazon.ca/stores/author/B0845RLK1X ~~~...

  Did you know ? The oldest drums were found in Neolithic cultures in China  about 5,500 BC, & scientists believe  they were  often played for ceremonies. ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    This is one of our favourite performances by these master musicians, led by Jesse Cook.   Set in an empty theater, the musican is taken away with his music and in his mind a stunning performance emerges, only to find that at the end it was all in his mind.  Such a cool theatrical way of presenting this concert.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6343H42j_YI Find our Books:   on Amazon Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

  Dave - the author - & musician A professional drummer/percussionist and educator, Dave has collaborated on many songs that later led to him writing lyrics of his own. Most of his poems in this book were in fact initially written as song lyrics, thus the presence of repeating choruses though out.  Actually it was Dave who first sparked the idea for the Brummet’s to walk this path they tread today – he decided to take a writer’s course to learn what he might be able to do with his short stories that he has compiled over the years.  Most of those stories have remained unpublished to this day due to other projects taking precedence, but Dave plans to release some in the near future. His poem UFO Dream  is the theme of one of his soon-to-be novels that he has been working on. Today we are sharing one of Dave's poems excerpted from the book: Rhythm & Rhyme Grooveyard Author note:  * My thesis on the magic of the power of music. How it keeps us young and take...