Drum It With Brummet

  Drum Trash As a drummer, sustainable entrepreneur and instrument inventor, I am forever finding uses for items often thrown away.  Hardware and stands: Keep everything! Spare parts can go a long way when fixing or customizing drum kits and percussion rigs. Be the guy that supplies spare parts to drummers in need. I am considered the local drum doctor and often help my students out with fixing their kits. Organize your collection of parts and pieces by storing them in clear containers (like clean peanut butter jars) so things can be readily found when needed.  ~~~     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 " Drums all have their own particulars  each drum has a place where they sound the best  where they ring out and resonate the best,   and the head surface isn't too loose  or too tight,  mainly so you get a good rebound  off of the head." ~ Chad Smith ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    Answering Your Q's  Q:  What resources do you recommend for drummers that could widen their experience of the realm of percussion? Definitely check out the group Stomp which uses everything from their bodies to brooms and water to create rhythm. One of my favourite bands is Vinx , which is entirely percussion and vocals.  Mickey Hart, the drummer for the Grateful Dead , went on this lifetime quest to learn about world drums and he has some great music too. His latest CD is called Superlingua , which merges musicians from around the world. I totally recommend his two books Planet Drum  and Drumming at the Edge of Magic to anyone who is interested in drums from around the world. Rusted Root is a great group that incorporates reggae and world beats in a funky style. Drum Prayer is a good group, too. But if you want to hear true Senegalese drum music try Dou Dou  Rose . Also check out the  Brummet Media​ Channel​  ​ 's playlist: Our Favourit...

Modern technology used to blend  authentic South African drum patterns, ancestral chants, and deep earthy tones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1puH4o6JrEk ~~~     Find our Books:   on Amazon Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    Drum Trash As a drummer, sustainable entrepreneur and instrument inventor, I am forever finding uses for items often thrown away.  Broken drum sticks: Cut down & sand rough areas smooth - to make cowbell beaters.  Cut down and attach rubber ball to make sticks for hand pans. Tool handles in the workshop. I utilize short pieces for djembe repairs. Giveaways at performances (a broken stick has a story - tell them which song you broke it on!) Sign it and it is even more special. Use in the garden. Mark measurements on the stick, and use to make holes just the right depth for the seeds. Alternatively, use as a stake-marker - poking the stick in at each end of the newly sown row. ~~~     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 "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...

    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...

Happy    Uncommon Instrument Day     ! ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

Another great performance by the band HU transporting us to the time of spirits, instruments and great Mongolian legends  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpOjUCuk-5I ~~~     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 "Nobody could have predicted  the effect of John Bonham's drum introduction  on 'Good Times, Bad Times,'  because no matter what he'd played in before,  he'd never had the chance  to flex his muscles and play like John Bonham." ~  Jimmy Page ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    Did you know ? Larger rodents, like gophers and rats, communicate by tapping their paws on the ground!  Skunks will stomp their back feet so hard they lift their body off the ground.  Beavers will slap their wide tails. Mice will pat their paws on their sides or leaves. That percussion resonates in the soil and across water-ways  letting their families know when there is danger, or if it is safe to come out.  This can also be used to communicate territory, dominance or familiarity.  ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    Answering Your Q's  Q:  What can you tell us about the history of drums? It has to be the East Indian Tabla, a finger drum. When they are learning to play these drums they have to learn to sing the rhythms first, then they learn to play them on the drums.  You can play many notes on the two drums depending on how you might even change the tension of the skin with the heal of the hand while hitting the drum with the fingers.  Instead of a 4 note phrase like there is in most popular western music, they could have a 23 note phrase. So that's one bar of their music. 23 notes, that he would have to learn πbefore going on to the next one, all this on top of the different timing of the sitar player.  The Tabla is a very intricate instrument and requires mastering polyrhythms.  ~~~     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.  Broken cymbals: Use for special effects (stacks, ribbon crashers) Cut down to make cup chimes: check out the two links below for my method of safely cutting down broken cymbals and the resulting cup chimes.  Part 1: https://drumitwithbrummet.blogspot.com/2024/12/repurpose-broken-cymbals-part-1.html Part 2: https://drumitwithbrummet.blogspot.com/2024/12/homemade-cup-chimes.html ~~~     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 "My favorite instrument is the snare drum.  In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands.  The Scottish style of playing is in my blood.  It's a very powerful instrument,  but it can also be soothing,  like velvet.  It's a real challenge for composers." ~ Evelyn Glennie ~~~     Follow Dave:   on Amazon Subscribe to:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~