Simply stated, You guys Rock!!

 
Brad Roulston Love my KickPort

 
Terry G. Taylor Best addition ever for the cost!

 
John Martin I have researched and have found that there is a reason for what I hear on recordings since I am sitting behind the drums when performing I rely on playbacks and wow there is a significant difference with or without and I happen to perfer it with!

 

First up at 25: Journey’s Steve Smith

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“Big, clean and punchy low end. Great for articulation on the busy patterns. Just out right- a better kick sound!” -Stephen Perkins

The new and improved KickPort features the recently developed Firm-Flex collar for easier installation, a better fit, and even a fatter bass drum tone. KickPort 2 is now available in black (KP1-BK2), white (KP1-WH2), chrome (KP1-CH2), and gold (KP1-GO2).
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He will be Playing at The Orleans in LV May 15-20 with Mischief

“Just finished a weekend @ The Agua Caliente Casino and the sound engineer and I we’re very impressed with the Kickport. He said it was the best sounding kick he ever heard in that room. (we did add another mic to the outside of the Kickport as well as my Sure that’s mounted internally and the combination of the 2 was awesome!”

Credits:  Divinyls, Michael Bolton

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Six months, that is.

In two recently published papers, psychologists Laurel Trainor and David Gerry of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind report music training can foster babies’ emotional development and communication skills.

“The infant brain might be particularly plastic with respect to musical experience,” the researchers write in the journal Developmental Science. “When parents are actively involved and materials appropriate for infants are utilized, musical training can profitably begin early in infancy.”

The researchers describe a six-month experiment featuring 34 infants and their parents. The babies’ average age at the time of the first session was six and one-half months; the last week of classes occurred around their first birthday.

Twenty of the infants and their parents participated in weekly, hour-long interactive music classes, which utilized the well-known Suzuki method.

“Two teachers worked with the parents and infants to build a repertoire of lullabies, action songs and nursery rhymes,” the researchers write. “Parents were encouraged to use the curriculum CD at home and to repeat the songs and rhymes daily.”

The other 14 infants and their parents enrolled in passive music classes, where they listened to “a rotating series of recordings from the popularBaby Einstein series” while playing together with balls, blocks or books.

After six months, those who took part in the active music lessons demonstrated a preference for tonal over atonal music—a pattern not found in the passive group. (Struggling record companies: These passives might grow into a potential audience for that backlog of Arnold SchoenbergCDs!) In addition, the researchers found “significantly larger and/or earlier responses” to piano tones in the brains of the babies who took active lessons.

But the benefits of this training went far beyond early indications of music appreciation.

“After participation in active music classes, infants showed much lower levels of distress when confronted with novel stimuli than after participation in passive music classes,” the researchers report. All the babies smiled and laughed less as they aged during the experiment, but the fall-off was greater among the passive listeners.

Communication skills were also positively affected. “Use of gestures increased greatly between six and 12 months of age,” the researchers note, “but increased more so for those in the active compared to the passive music classes.”

Trainor and her colleagues do not view these developments as isolated. “Positive social interactions between infants and parents likely lead to better communication and earlier acquisition of communicative gestures, which in turn lead to more positive social interactions,” they write.

So never hesitate to teach your little one a lullaby. Even at a very young age, making music together is great way for parents to bond with their budding baritone or Beyoncé.

Think deterrents. Keep your drums hidden and/or covered in your car or van. Take extra precaution at clubs and venues. Cover your drumset. Make sure someone is always around when you’re not there. Don’t underestimate the thief. He’s just waiting for you to let your guard down.

It’s about time. Our primary responsibility before anything else is to lay down a steady drum beat for the band. This is before drum fills. You should understand “groove” thoroughly and be able to lay a backbeat down like nobody’s business. Drum fills are secondary. Don’t forget to use a metronome or drum machine during your drum practice sessions. This will help ensure accuracy and imporve your overall time.

Drum Tuning Tips: Don’t be afraid to crank down your bongos when tuning them. Too often people confuse the sound a bongo should make with congas or djembes. Bongos should be able to pierce above all of the drums with your fingertips.

Don’t underestimate posture. This is one of the most overlooked facets of drumming. Sit up straight when you’re playing the drums so your back is aligned properly.

In general, 1966 was very much one of those years in which the old and the new mingled freely in the commercial world. Yes, the Beatles exerted great influence, but so did Frank Sinatra.

While the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was certainly celebratory, tomorrow’s 9 p.m. premiere of the footage on HBO will be met by a somber tone in the wake of today’s news that Beastie Boys founding member Adam “MCA” Yauch has died. The seminal rap group was immortalized at the musical shrine during the April 14 ceremony, though Yauch was reportedly too ill to attend. HBO is now planning to dedicate the show to Yauch, according to Billboard.