Drum It With Brummet

  Media Appearance Did you know that Dave is a published poet and lyricist?  Well, his work appears in our book: Rhythm & Rhyme   ...including this poem titled " Grooveyard ", which is about the powerful healing nature that playing music brings to the musician.  Check it out here...  https://thewritersdigest.com/2021/07/01/feeling-the-rhythm-through-rhyme ~~   Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~

 

If Drums Were Lost * Written by Dave Brummet As a drum teacher I was asked recently by a student, what would it be like if there were no drums? It took me a minute or two to come up with an answer that could possibly explain the loss of what I do for an income/hobby, and more importantly what it would mean to music. It is hard to imagine life with out the rhythm we hear in our popular music. No rock and roll, blues, funk, disco, reggae, jazz as we know it  as they all are rhythm based. It is almost unthinkable what the world itself would be like if the drums were gone… First lets go back to an era where there was actually was an absence of drums in music.   James Blades author of Percussive Instruments and Their History , wrote: “ With the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire, percussive music was banned as mischievous and licentious; the drums and cymbals were particularly singled out as evidence of the devil’s pomposity ”.   As B.C. becomes A.D., drums...

  Quote of the Day  *Excerpted from an interview we did on the Mcfly Book Bliss Blog Q : Who, or what, inspired you to pursue a career in writing?  Dave:   " I was inspired by various sci-fi writers at first and felt I would go the fiction route but haven’t yet found the time to develop anything of my own in that genre.  I definitely have some story ideas rattling around in my head. Some day… I was also inspired by Neil Peart, he’s the drummer and lyricist from Rush. He inspired me as a drummer to get songwriting credits whenever I am involved with original music.  Oddly enough, as a drummer, there are no credits for your performance as compared to a guitarist, keyboard player or songwriter.  So I started by writing song lyrics and most of my poetry found in our Rhythm & Rhyme book is also penned in that style ." ~~   Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~

   Recommended Resources Jeff Beale's The Marketing Strategy Session with DC "The Brain"  (a musician and online marketing specialist) where DC ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVP77pz7_4 ) explained that as we grow into the business we hope to be, we are planting all these seeds and we never know when they will come to fruition or if they will come to fruition, but we do the work just the same. Those seeds will sprout up in surprising ways, even years after they were sown.  Right after viewing this, I watched another of Jeff's helpful videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1alAQy_W4 ).  You will learn: - There's always a new or better way that entrepreneurs can explore, ready for them to discover if they are willing to do the research. - Entrepreneurs must set aside their pride and emotional reactions, and instead - concentrate on finding solutions. - Entrepreneurs need to be flexible and also prepare for eventualities that may happen. ~~   Visit th...

 Managing This Blog ( Part 2 ) *Written by Dave Brummet, continued from November 20th) Like any business service, blogs have to be promoted if we hope to have a readership. As I write this, we are in the 10th month of publishing the Drum It With Brummet blog and the readership numbers are slowly crawling upwards. My wife and I have a long list of promotional activities that we are tackling whenever time allows.  I have personally been a part of a lot of music groups and bands, worked with theatre groups, am connected with numerous online groups and have made connections with individuals over my 40 years of working in the music industry. I plan to reach out to each of these to let them know about the blog and how it may be useful to them. This will also give me a reason to reach out to all these connections, making our relationships stronger. There are multitudes of ways we have already begun basic promotions for the blog. Starting with links to the blog on our main website ht...

Managing This Blog (Part 1)  *Written by Dave Brummet As business owners, we periodically take the time to evaluate our 5-yr business plan and based on our findings we then re-write a 1-year action plan. This action plan works like an organized guide that we can follow as we work toward business activities and project development.  I open with this statement, because it was this plan that brought us closer to expanding the reach of our Angle Hill Studio services while striving toward o ur future goal, which is to open an e-store for the percussion accessories that I invented. Starting the Drum It With Brummet blog back in January 2021, was one of the tools we are using to achieve more exposure and to create a networking hub with other musicians, and to offer support to those working in the music industry. In particular we encourage my students to visit the blog, as there is a lot of helpful information there for them to browse.  My wife and I have are not new to the wor...