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My First Drum Set

My First Drum Set

When I started playing drums at age 14 I had the most not amazing $80 drum kit that you could imagine. It was a 5 piece Ludwig kit that was not very well managed or maintained. I bought it from a kit at my school with the idea that we were going to "start a band". We were 14 and this kit was a "drummer" that had moved off the kit to pursue his goal of becoming the next Phil Anselmo. He used to carry around this Shure SM58 knock off with electrical tape wrapped around it. Every change he got to pull it out and throw down some Pantera lyrics it would happen. It was like Phil on demand! Whether it was a 1,2,3,4 or a Walk on Home Boy, it was alway cocked and loaded. (Read More....

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Watch this GIANT kick drum in action

Watch this GIANT kick drum in action

Joey Bones just got an amazing new Love Custom Drum drum kit and it's awesome! He's getting his first taste of playing those awesome drums on a hard surface without a drum rug by adding KBrakes and the KBrakes Grips attachment. The KBrakes Grips are an attachment that allow you to play your drums on any hard surface without a drum rug. Watch him kick this drum with the force of 10 men and watch the drum not move 1 mm. Big Drums, Big Beard, Big Beats, No Creep! 

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KBrakes Experience and how to install

KBrakes Experience and how to install

Tim Ortman from "Lunch Break Covers" talking about KBrakes and even shows us how to install them. Tim like many others suffers from his kick drum sliding around on him while he is practicing or playing a show. Even with his drum spur spikes fully exposed and digging into the carpet the drum still slides. Tired of pulling his kick drum back every few songs Tim has discovered KBrakes and tells us how the 256 stopping points on the bottom of each foot dig into the carpet stopping your bass drum in it's tracks. Tim is now a happy drummer and...

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KBrakes Grips

KBrakes Grips

Check out KBrakes Grips and HiStops on the Ludwig vistalite in the KBrakes Drum Room! KBrakes Grips are the only hard surface kick drum anchor of their kind. With KBrakes Grips you can play you drums on a hard surface with out a drum rug. The kick drum creep is annoying but it's even more annoying when you aren't playing on a rug. Drummers have always had to play on a rug because there was never a low cost option that provided the stability that a drummer would need to be able to kick the drum 5000 times a night...

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Check out KBrakes Review in Modern Drummer Magazine

Check out KBrakes Review in Modern Drummer Magazine

Full Article - Mitigate kick drum creep with these simple-to-install feet. I don’t know how you feel on the matter, but I think drums sound the best when they are being beaten to the brink of exploding. Especially kick drums. Unfortunately, laying into a kick drum with the force of Thor’s hammer leads to an issue every hard-hitting drummer has experienced: the dreaded sliding bass drum. This brings us to a product I’ve had the pleasure to gig with for the past month called KBrakes, which is the brainchild of Wes Keely, a frustrated touring drummer with an entrepreneurial spirit....

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