Drum It With Brummet

When it comes to the nuts and bolts of a drum set and all the hardware that holds it in place, there is no substitute for good maintenance.  A poorly maintained kit will provide you many bad memories of scrambling to fix something either just before, or during an important performance you are playing in. Face it – any performance is important and it is good practice to not screw ANYTHING up, if possible.  When on stage you want everything to go smoothly so the audience remembers the music, the performance - not the time the drummer’s cowbell fell onto his snare mic during that delicate intro!   ~~  Find us online via :  https://taplink.cc/brummet  ~~

With the New Year approaching we have been discussing future plans for the Drum It With Brummet blog, and have come up with some fantastic projects - some of which Dave is proud to share with you below: What's To Come: Over the many years of teaching drums and percussion my students have asked many mechanical questions regarding this complicated instrument we play. As well as the playing aspect, there is so much to consider when you are out playing gigs on a regular basis. Whether it is a broken part or something gone missing, or worse -  stolen, there is always something you need to be prepared to fix in a pinch.  Having been in the music business for over 40 years, playing both live and studio gigs I happen to have gained quite a bit of trickery when it comes to on-the-spot fixes and customizing.  Part of my drum business, other than teaching, is repairing and customizing hardware as well as advising school bands and maintaining their instruments. I also manufactur...

             Answering Your Q's Q: I'm curious, Dave - What is something you’re looking forward to in music marketing? A: I look forward to increasing the Drum It With Brummet blog and YouTube content - sharing drum expertise with the world. I plan on releasing series of videos sharing drum and percussion tips and techniques that others will find incredibly useful.  The endless opportunities available to us for marketing these days is only limited by the time and effort you put into it.  I feel that the best thing is not to allow one's self to get into a rut of feeling of overwhelmed with to-do's and underwhelmed with results.  Keep a file on hand where you can make notes about opportunities, tools or resources that you want to check out so that you don't lose track of them. Create a 5-year business plan, make an action plan at the start of each year that details the steps you will be taking - break it down into a do-able sched...

  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...