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Drum Set Fills & Grooves
Apr 13th
Drumming DVD, “Practical Drumming” with Brian Lutz, is an all-around Drumming DVD featured in DRUMHEAD MAGAZINE & MODERN DRUMMER MAGAZINE!
The DVD covers a wide range of topics and skill levels. There are some foundational portions there were surprisingly new to me. It is critical to build on a solid foundation, so I feel this alone helped me progress and break some old habits that were holding me back.
It includes a 12-page booklet of P.A.S. Essential Snare Rudiments & Drum Set notation (printable in full-page format), 3-Hours of Snare & Drum set Instruction & Live-Performances. Musical Performances in 21 Different Playing Styles PLUS Full-Length Live-Band Performances!
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Now playing: Bon Iver – Re: Stacks
via FoxyTunes
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DDrum Kit for Under $350!
Apr 11th
I’ve been checking out a few online drum shops lately – just seeing what’s around really, and I came across this awesome looking drum set. I can’t believe how good it looks for a drum set that’s under $350!!! It’s the DDrum DBOP20 4-Piece Drum Shell Kit.
This DDrum DBop 20 includes a 20 x 18 inch kick, a 12 x 8 inch rack tom, a 14 x 13 inch floor tom, and a 14 x 5-1/2 inch snare. The kick and snare drums are constructed of 8 plies of basswood and the toms are made of 6 plies. Each drum shell in the Ddrum DBop 20 4 Piece Drum Shell Kit features black powder-coated 2.5mm hoops and hardware, Remo heads, and a sparkle finish! The kick hoops are wood and color match.
DDrum DBOP20 4-Piece Drum Shell Kit
Features
- Sparkle lacquer finish
- Color matched wood kick hoops
- Black powdercoated 2.5 mm hoops and hardware
- Remo heads
- Cymbals and all other hardware not included
From what I’ve seen, the reviews around the internet have been very positive, with one reviewer saying that the DDrum DBOP20 “sounds like a much more expensive maple kit only just a bit louder.”, “excellent value!”, and “I purchased this kit because I love vintage kits but , I was sick of constantly destroying the very things that I loved so much. Thus the DBOP. I can take it gigging without worry of damage because it is not priceless and it has modern hardware that can take a real beating.”.
The DDrum DBOP20 Drum Kit is the perfect beginner’s kit, practice kit and certainly good enough to use for gigs too. For under $350, you can’t go wrong!
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SABIAN Cymbals Set-Up Builder
Feb 23rd
I guess this has been around for a while, but I only recently discovered it and I’d wish I knew about it when I was in the market to buy a new Drum Set with Cymbals.
It’s the Cymbal Set-Up Builder by SABIAN.
All you need to do is:
- Create your set-up from scratch OR
- Choose your favourite Sabian artist template, OR
- Choose a Genre template.
Then you can move things around, edit what drums you prefer and best of all, you can save your Sabian Cymbal Set-up and play the kit so you can find out what each cymbal sounds like. The only downside with the site is that you can’t share your set-up easily with Facebook or Twitter etc, and I’ve noticed from a few blogs out there that people have had trouble working out how they were supposed to share it, when someone at Sabian stated they needed to screen grab it and resize with MS Paint! What type of response is that?!? Anyway, all negatives aside, the website is still pretty cool.
Here’s a pic of my current kit: TAMA Superstar with a variety of Sabian Cymbals.
TAMA Superstar with SABIAN AA, AAX and Paragon Cymbals
On the Cymbal list, I have:
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AA Splash 06″
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AA Splash 10″
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AAX Fusion Hats 13″
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AA Thin Crash 16″
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AAX X-Plosion Crash 18″ (This is my favourite cymbal on the set-up. If you’re looking to get one at a good price, check out zZounds)
- Neil Peart Signature Paragon Ride 22″
Here’s the set-up of my favourite drummer, Jose Pasillas II:
Jose Pasillas II Drum Set-Up
Awesome cymbal set-up, but bugger setting it up every gig unless you had a roadie to do it for you! Read my earlier post about shrinking your Drum Set and Cymbals could make you be a better drummer.
Have a go yourself at building your Sabian Cymbal Set-Up at http://www.sabian.com/EN/setupbuilder/
If you’re looking for a cheaper place to buy Sabian Cymbals, check out zZounds.
And if you’re a Sabian advocate, you can become their fan on Facebook here.
Please leave a comment! I’d love to get some feedback on what you think about my set-up!
Cheers
Greg
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