News — Kickdrum

KBrakes Grips are designed to allow you to play your drums on any hard surface without any slipping issues. With KBrakes Grips you have the option to leave your drum rug at home. This Sonor kit is equipped with KBrakes HiStops which are designed with 256 stopping points on the bottom along with the KBrakes Grips attachment for hard surfaces. With this combination your kit will be locked down on carpet or hard surfaces.

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! 

Check out KBrakes on the The Drum Heads Podcast talking drumming, funning and silly stories. On this episode Daniel asked me about one of my craziest stories while on tour and I don't think he was quite expecting the weirdness of the story that he got.  We did get to catch up on what's been happing with KBrakes and about the new products that we just launched a few months back at Summer NAMM!  Check out the pod cast for more antics and silly stories about drumming, drums, and drummers!   

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...

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....