What is Making Music About | For Parents and Kids
Posted in Learn
You may be new to learning an instrument or to singing, and you ask yourself, “What is making music about?” “What do I need to start off with and how do I get good at it?” In this post I am going to give you tips and advises, which can be implemented in your kid music Read More »
Djembe Drums Overview | 5 Reason Why You Will Love It
Posted in Percussion
Some folks may not have learned about the djembe drum; it’s a percussion instrument used your hands. Not long ago I wrote an article about it's history and reviews of the drum, but now let's focus on it's charm. OK, it is basically help drum… but not simply any hands drum, it’s a djembe. This is Read More »
Reading Drum Music | Trust Me It's Easy!
Posted in Learn
Introduction Drum music is typically written in Bass Clef. However with drums, you don't need to worry about key signatures so it doesn't really matter. You may ask ''So is it hard to read drum music?'' and I will answer you - Hell no! There is standard method for writing out drum notations. However, drum charts Read More »
Peace Drums - Review 2016
Posted in Drums
Peace drums is a division of Peace Best Music Co., Ltd. They offer a wide range of musical instruments like drums, marching percussion, latin percussion instruments and saxophones. They are based out of Taipei, Taiwan. Additional wraps and lacquer finishes for many of the kits are available upon request for a small fee of Read More »
CB Drums Overview
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CB drums or CB Percussion as its known, is under the parent company Kaman Music Corp (KMC). KMC owns many famous music brands such as Takamine, Ovation, Hamer, Sabian and Gibraltar. They currently only offer snare drums, marching snares, and bells (small compact versions of xylophones). While their drum sets are now largely unavailable, you Read More »
Traps Drums Review - 2018
Posted in Drums
Traps drums manufacturers acoustic and electronic sets that are basically a molded rim to hold a drum hoop and a head. They don't actually have a shell. Much like a practice pad set. This of course makes them extremely easy to pack and travel with. Of course having no shell at all gives you Read More »
African Drums. Types and History
Posted in Percussion
There are many different types of different African drums. They come in a variety of shapes and produce a wide spectrum of different sounds. Here we'll take a close look at some of the most common types of and explore their different traits and how they were used. Djembe Drums OVERVIEW The Djembe or Jambe Read More »
Brazilian Drums Overview
Posted in Drums
There are many types of common Brazilian drums. These include the Surdo, Pandierno, Caixa, Repinque, Tambourim. They are typically used in Samba as one of the most common Brazilian instrument. While commonly used in Carnival parades and celebrations, these various types of drums have found their place into other genres of music and are widely used today Read More »
Drum Tuning - How To Get a Perfect Sound
Posted in Learn
This article is divided into 5 sections: 12 Short Tips What Music Do You Play? Getting The Head "In Tune" Top/Bottom Head Relation Tuning The Bass Drum Tuning The Snare Drum Before you can start banging on your custom drum set, you need to set it up first, so without further ado. Here’s how you Read More »
Drum with Kids Using Floor Drums
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Although there is no universal formula of how to drum with kids, here are some suggestions that help you get rolling. Drumming together with your kid deepens your relationship, makes fun, develops your rhythmic sense, your rough and fine motor behavior, your sensibility of movement and feeling, and the strengthened networking between your cerebral hemispheres.All Read More »
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