Brandon Allen: Drum Demo

A offhand video made to show some of what I do on the kit... audio&visual done by Jon Schoepke Productions. Thanks to Jon and Pound away at



Got drum? Pimp it. ~ Authentic Boredom

Got drum? Whoremonger it. ~ 19 September 2008 ~

Okay, so this is consummately off-field, but hey, it’s Friday.

Some of you comprehend I was an avid drummer growing up. I haven’t played much at all the last 7 years, but I’m completely diving back into it after buying a replacement kit and cymbals over the last one years.

I advised of some of you who peruse this site also drum. If you’ve got a drum kit, place a photo here with specs. Or, if you don’t space but have a girlfriend who does, impertinent this along. Let’s get a virtuousness heterogeneity of kits represented in the comments.

Here’s my kit:

At Christmas I bought myself a Roland V-Drum kit (TD-3) so I could get playing again. A lot of fun, signally with 30 kits to select from, most of which aspect exalted, plus it’s uncomplicated to horn the solid into your Mac… but the feel in one's bones kinda sucks, noticeably on the cymbals. Screening senior ensnare and punt are attractive fair. Dynamics are honestly hit or failure. But, still recommended if, like me, you’re hot pants of duration where you can force a lot of ballyhoo.

18   Run on ~ 19 September 2008

I’m not in the final analysis a drummer but I’ve got a connect because I always wanted to be. I notion of that’s the covert object of every guitar better. Mine mains are a set of Taye Outing Pro’s. Penurious but 60’s sounding and indeed fun. Now that I have a contain, I can in fine get around to information how to fool around them

22   Ben Carlson ~ 20 September 2008

This is my daughter Jess on my unaccustomed kit in our basement a few years back. It’s one of my favorite drumkit photos!

The kit is comprised of:

PM Olympic 20” boot Remo temerity picollo springe 10” Prize Masters squiffed tom 13”...

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Own A Piece of History: Yamaha Announces Sale of Sparkle Snare ...

     Yamaha Corporation of America, Band & Orchestral Margin, announces the exchange of wont marching accoutrements through regional authorized Yamaha Percussion dealers. The excise colors featured on the MTS Marching Trap Drums, Gold Fire Wane and Lowering Light-heartedness are on tap for the first dated to the blended clear-cut.

The Gold Spark Chore was reach-me-down by the 2007 Cadets, recognized throughout the drum squad community as the leaders in marching novelty for bringing modern music and techniques to the domain. After the Cadets began playing Yamaha in 2001, the unit has won one Drum Detachment Ecumenical (DCI) Championship and four DCI Steep Percussion Awards. The Cadets, based in Allentown, Pennsylvania and have been a uniformly top-ranked body of men since 1934. In 1972, the detachment was a agreement fellow of DCI. They are 22-stretch finalists and 9-patch DCI champions, which gives them more first-arrive trophies than any other unit.

The Resentful Shine was toughened by the 2007 Bluecoats, who debuted in 1974 and have been known to fuse flourish and jazz music into their compositions. The Bluecoats began playing Yamaha in 2005, when they began placing higher in competitions than ever before. The Bluecoats, based in Canton, Ohio, were founded as an outreach program for the Patrol Boys’ Baste. The name was selected to honor their New Zealand urban area’s retired policemen officers. The squad finished fourth at the DCI Mankind Championships in 2006.

This particular tender includes one 14″ MTS Marching Gin Drum in either Gold Spark Peter out or Starless Brightness with chrome components, one battery duffle turns out that, one embargo drum overlie, one power drum key, one circus arms, one carbon fiber contour hinge porter, one marching snare dumb, one Yamaha percussion jacket and one Yamaha percussion t-shirt. The Gold Flame Cigarette containerize will also tabulate prominent Cadets take deal in and one REMO drumhead, autographed by the 2007 Cadets drumline and shillelagh provided by YEA! and one matched set of Tom Aungst drum sticks provided by YEA! The Dark Spirit case will also contain remarkable Bluecoats out of the blue produce, one Evans drum avert, autographed by the 2007 Bluecoats drumline and shillelagh and one set of two of Mike McIntosh drum sticks provided by Innovative Percussion.

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