Drum It With Brummet

  Time to enjoy some good music One of our favourite bands - Gov't Mule... who self-identifies as a southern-rock-jam band. With a touch of funk and sometimes downright blues,  Drummer Matt Abts makes his job seem like the easiest, casual thing... no big deal - lol - It takes a real pro to make it seem so easy... so relaxed. This video is of their performance several years ago in  Jamaica:  https://youtu.be/TkBz731Tn58 ~~~   Find us online via:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  ~~~ 

            Answering Your Q's Q: Hi guys... What is the greatest pain point of marketing within the music industry right now?   A: Dave:  My wife Lillian is the one that could answer this better as she is the one that is on top of the marketing end of what we do. She spends a lot of time hunting down the answers to everything we do to market our business, whether it is promotion the books we have written, the drums I build or the teaching studio and anything else – she is amazing and a real go-getter. In fact the book we have published Purple Snowflake Marketing is a guide for self-promoting writers based on all the techniques and means she and I have developed in our own writing career, as business owners and entrepreneurs. Many of the principles in this book are also applied to the music portion of our business. A: Lillian: Networking is probably the greatest tool that any business owner, entrepreneur or artist could embrace. We...

Drummers on the beach "On the 9th of September 2018, 2.000 drummers & percussion players assembled on the beach of Scheveningen, The Netherlands.  They played a 2-hour concert called ‘FOUR HORIZONS in front of a crowd of 40.000 visitors, conducted by Cesar Zuiderwijk (drummer of GOLDEN EARRING, DRUM DEMONS) and produced by Koen Herfst (DRUM DEMONS, ARMIN VAN BUUREN). This is a compilation of the 2-hour concert…enjoy, and share the video with your drum-friends!"  https://youtu.be/1O3xjhC9MHU ~~~   Find us online via:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  ~~~ 

     Kootenay / Boundary Musician Resources The Kootenay & Boundary regions are filled with artists of all kinds including of course, musicians of all shapes and sizes playing noise makers of every kind you could imagine. :) If you don't reside or vacation here, don't worry you can still use these resources to network. Many of the small and medium sized cities or communities are spread quite far apart and so, especially if you are new to the area, it can seem difficult to find others to network with.  Therefore we are doing a series of blog posts offering some online networking resources for you to check out. Some of these will be buy/sell related, but this will also give you insight as to instruments available and the people selling them. Kootenay Connect https://www.facebook.com/kootenayconnect Creston BC Events https://www.creston.ca/2228/Events Creston Valley & Kootenay Lake  https://www.crestonvalleykootenaylake.com ~~~   Find us onli...

            Answering Your Q's Q: Have you had any notable achievements or hardships? A: We have found that there are a lot of local business support organizations and programs from Innovate to KAST, Factor 5, Basin Business Advisors, KES and a dozen others who helped us focus an action plan. The hardest part here is having the patience to take things slowly, one step at a time. We are not in a position to outsource or hire help and therefore everything is on our shoulders - the weight can sometimes feel quite heavy. COVID of course brought on the greatest hardship because it resulted in shutting down the teaching services and much of the studio for 2 years. Also live gigs dried up for a while.  Now it has once again opened up with a new excitement from the students due to that down time. My band, too, is really busy now that establishments can have live performances again. Sometimes a break from the schedule can inspire a new love for music and r...

          Answering Your Q's Q: Hey Dave it seems like you have a lot going on...   Is there anything you’ve wanted to try but haven’t been able to? A: Lots! I think I've mentioned some of these things already.  Time is always limited: with our 6 books currently on Amazon to promote and a trilogy coming out this year, and a busy teaching studio... I find myself stretched thin.   However, I have always wanted to release recording projects of my own, and our action plan has this goal coming up on the schedule soon. ...Stay tuned. ~~   Find us online via :  https://taplink.cc/brummet  ~~

 Musician Resources The Drummer's Journal website has plenty of archived editions of their online magazine for musicians to browse: https://www.thedrummersjournal.com The Drum Ninja   website offers a few drum lesson genre articles, information on gear and interviews with drummers: https://thedrumninja.com Angle Hill Studio http://brummetmedia.ca/anglehill.html ~~~   Find us online via:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  ~~~