Drum It With Brummet

Drum soloing – some drummers are very adept at them. When I was younger, I often felt like I just fell  on my drums when I am pushed to do one.  It was never a priority on my list of things to practice when  alone with my drums as I was usually busy working on songs to play in a cover band. Recently, we saw live music get a reboot after the COVID shutdown had people realizing how much  they missed seeing a live band in a club setting. The weekend rock band I was in at the time saw the  potential of this and put together a very energetic rock set list that had me playing harder and faster  than I had – ever! This group also required me to do a drum solo that I was dreading.  It had been  probably more than thirty years since I had done a long solo and, as you know, I had always disliked them. It’s not that I  don’t like drum solos that other guys do, in fact I love them - when done well. I just felt that  I wasn’t in that category probabl...

  As I had mentioned in the last post, this time around we are going to get into some deep thinking with the help of Gavin Harrison and his CPU theory . I recently stumbled upon this incredible drummer though Drumeo , an online drum channel that offers lessons and has tons of free resources.  https://youtu.be/woI6t8dCQcQ?si=r5yddF8yXKBudgju Gavin’s thinking in this video puts into words what I had discovered (eventually) over the 40 years of my career in music.  Which is:  If you are playing so intensely that you can’t self analyze (and correct) your own playing, or truly listen and react to the other musicians around you, you need to back off. Once you have this concept in mind and learn to apply it you will be much more in control of everything you do. It is important have time to look around and smile instead of staring at your snare drum like a transfixed cobra. In the video you might have noticed those little chime-like cymbals that Gavin has on his left.  ...

Marco Minnemann - Drum For Your Life, Drumeo Video :  Check out this fascinating video where Marco displays some very interesting time changes. This is not your typical wackity-wack drummer.  See how he melodically plays, seamless, flawless, and with class. https://youtu.be/Z89riOo-8pM ~~   Find us online via :  https://taplink.cc/brummet  ~~