Are you in shape

Bought one of these new fitness bracelets, you know the ones that count your steps, will after playing a gig for three hours with two breaks, I down loaded the results, it seems I got over 10,000 steps that about five miles. Look like I don't need a treadmill after all.

Are you in shape

Flams 4 3 2 - Flam Exercises [The Exercise Pad Session]

Hellow fellow drummers!!!
Here's another episode of The Exercise Pad Session and the time of flams has arrived! One of my favourites rudiments of all, especially the Flam Tap, but the Flam is pretty good too :)

Check out the video and don't forget to hit the Like button and to Subscribe if you find this tutorial useful.
Stay tuned for more!

Download the PDF of the exercise from
http://ift.tt/1KHBYj1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQ6gfOOCxI

Flams 4 3 2 - Flam Exercises [The Exercise Pad Session]

DW bass drum muffling pillows

Recently, I realized my 22x18 DW performance kick sounded flat, dull and lifeless. The toms and snare got a lot of attention in the last year, 2 head replacements and regular re-tuning, but I always figured the kick sound was "that DW kick sound" and I should get used to it.

Yesterday, I finally took the time to settle the matter.

After a couple of tests, I left the factory-installed reso-side pillow velcroed to the bottom without it touching the head at all to act as an overtone magnet, and turned the batter side pillow so only its "tip" would barely touch the head.

Here is a link for a description : http://ift.tt/1MpECeo

I tuned the batter well over JAW and the reso a half-turn more.

To my taste and in the environment in which I played yesterday, it was a game changer : I finally got a rich and full sound out of that kick.

Feathering it produced a nice manly whisper, playing it fully-open gave me tone and at last left me in charge of managing volume and resonance.

Of course I don't play double kick anymore, and a blastbeat might have been harder to control.

So instead of a dull unidimensional kick, I now have a great drum which needs a bit of control but has so much to give in return. That kick is a well-crafted instrument, and trust me I am no DW worshipper, far from it. In fact I came close to replacing the kit a couple of times in the last year by another manufacturer's set, but now [gear lust notwithstanding] I am set on keeping it.

It is all a question of taste, but if I can help someone else who is in the dark and like me did not give that kick enough love, I think it is worth it !

DW bass drum muffling pillows

Some metal drum tracking videos

So i have been tracking drums for an upcoming ep from Aftermath and thought i'd share 2 videos from the session.

80's influenced metal is the name of the game and a ton of fun to play.

All comments are welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csXleLz2FA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rx9P2ZhsJk

Some metal drum tracking videos

Playing in front of 15 000

Fellow drummers!

I had a great show on Sunday, and I just had to share it. I was playing with a new artist named Justin Baron for KTUphoria 2015.

We shared the stage with Ricky Martin, Kelly Clarkson, Shaggy and more.

This is a short video of the show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNSzkPwMzc

Thanks for checking it out!

Playing in front of 15 000

Making switch from Clear Emps to Clear Ambs: what to expect?

Hey guys,

In my return to drumming a few years ago, I bought a Tama Silverstar (birch) set and went with my old faithful of Clear Emperors over Clear Ambassadors on the bottom and keep doing so.

Time to buy new batter heads so on a whim, I ordered Ambassadors instead of Emperors. You guys are much more knowledgeable than I but I felt like my drums could "sing" more possibly with a one-ply and that possibly the 2 ply was too "dark". I play 90's alternative and some classic rock mostly and would prefer NOT to use any extra muffling on any drums (aside from using a P3 for my snare batter and for my kick batter.)

I'm not a hard-hitter so I don't feel like I'll be denting the Ambs because I never did that with Emps. Just looking for a "brighter" sound out of my toms (especially playing live usually with no mics or occasionally one overhead.)

Did I make a good choice?

Making switch from Clear Emps to Clear Ambs: what to expect?

Using older Ipad for Performance and Teaching

Anyone around here using an older Ipad 2 or something similar for performance and teaching? I'm looking for something to hold charts and exercise sheets and for playback of tracks, etc.

Has anyone experienced any problems with the older version not behaving well with newer software versions?

Any other info/comments from those already using any Ipad or tablet for similar stuff would be welcome as well.

Using older Ipad for Performance and Teaching