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In this podcast I sit down with good friends Tyler Kulik and Justin Hucker. Both are instructors at Live Music Community, a music school here in Palm Beach county, FL. Tyler is the drum instructor at the school and Justin is the owner/operator. Both are musicians in the local south Florida scene where Tyler is the drummer for Butch and the Fat Doobs, a south Florida punk/rock band
Also  Justin is the Guitarist and primary writer for Euphobia;  He is best known as the "Kurt Cobain Impostor" for Smells Like Grunge: The Nirvana Tribute
We share a lot of laughs and chat about how we all met, teaching music, how everyone got started in music and the reduction of gigs during COVID.

The opening track "Goodbye" is one of Butch and the Fat Doobs latest tunes. 
Check out Tyler and Justin's links:
https://www.facebook.com/LMCFlorida
https://www.facebook.com/ButchandtheFatDoobs
https://www.butchandthefatdoobs.com/
https://www.facebook.com/EuphobiaBand/
https://www.euphobiamusic.com/

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It's been a few weeks since our last podcast with Juan Mendoza. Well life sometimes gets in the way, but we're back to talk about taking the podcast on the road. With things starting to open up, we'll visit various drum shops, distilleries, studios, and drummers/musiciains. Time to get out of the drum shack and meet some interesting people talk about how their backbeat meets the spirits.

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Where the backbeats meet the spirits.

On this podcast episode number 8, it's a special one. So Rene Rivera is back to help me co-host for this guest. I also want to thank another Drums and Rums alumni, Dave Bloom for connecting us with our guest. Someone with 61,000 Instagram followers, 22,000 followers on Facebook and 46,000 YouTube subscribers with that many people interested in your social media, you gotta know that our guest has awesome and genuine content. I'd like to introduce Juan "Carlito" Mendoza. 

If you don't know Juan, he's the author of the book "Rudiment Creativity Volume 1, Rolls and Paradiddles, online drum teacher, a Drumeo alumni and the 2012 Guitar Center's Drum OFf Grand Champion. Also his sponsors include just to name a few   Pearl Drums, Remo, Vic Firth, Meinl.. 

On the show we talk about some Jersey references,  some of the challenges with teaching middle during COVID-19, his Drum Off journey, connecting with Jared and Dave from Drumeo, opportunities with performing on Broadway and affordable webinars he offers online.

Also Juan lays down a drum groove from Madagascar .

Make you check out his site carlitomendoza.com and tons content and video on YouTube, Instagram and 
Here's Juan jamming on a track written by Eli Menezes called "Talk to Me"  Check the YouTube video of him playing this track.

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In episode #7 of Drums and Rums, where the backbeats meet the spirits.

My guest is Shayne McGuire of Nashville by ways of Detroit. We met at Jim Riley's drum dojo back in December 2019. Shayne talks about what it's like to land in Nashville as a drummer and work his way into the scene on Broadway. 

He's currently backing original music, Cima. They are a blues/Funk/Rock/Hip-Hop band.
Also you can find him on Lower Broadway with his cover band Coco and The Nash Bash.

He's keeping busy on covid lock down by recording drum covers on YouTube and is ready to get back out there and perform.

The opening track is "I Won't Surrender" by Cima. You can find it on Spotify and Apple music here...  https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-wont-surrender-single/1510322945

Links to Shayne's sites:
www.mcguire-shayne.com
https://www.facebook.com/cima256/
https://www.facebook.com/CocoAndTheNashBash/

And check out our site.
http://www.drumsandrums.com/

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In episode #6 of Drums and Rums, where the backbeats meet the spirits.

We get back to adding rum to the show with some Havana Club Anejo Clasico.

My guest is Dave Bloom. He's an accomplished live and studio drummer, family guy and accredited educator. He has students of all ages and does lessons in person and online. He also does a daily live show on Facebook

We talk about his cymbal setup, stories from the road, the importance of a practice pad when you can't  get on the kit and encouragement of trying new things on the drums.

He also talks about his past sponsorship, in his early years, as sponsored runner, skier and rollerblader and some of his current ones for Sabian cymbals, drum dots, Aquarian drum heads, sledge pad, low boy customer beaters, and Honest Roast coffee. also Check out Alto Music and email them at [email protected] to get the Dave Bloom special.
If you want endorsements you got be able to help the companies move products.
 
In this world of staying at home and looking for an easy way to get some Havana Club Anejo Clasico delivered to your door, check out the Drizly app. They can get it to the same day

The opening track is a killer groove of Dave's collboration with bassist Heber Van Geeburt

Links to Dave's sponsors and site:
https://www.facebook.com/DaveBloomDrumsOnline
https://sabian.com/
https://www.honestroastcoffee.com
https://www.aquariandrumheads.com/
http://www.drumdot.com/
https://www.altomusic.com/
https://lowboybeaters.com/

And check out our site.
http://www.drumsandrums.com/

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In our first live stream podcast, I catch up with Ryan Tremblay. We met at Jim Riley's Drum Dojo weekend back in December 2019. Ryan's a husband, father of triplets, International Christian Recording Artist  and Touring & Session Drummer. I ask how he got into music, music career, and plans for a move to Nashville. He's a multi-instrumentalist where he sings, plays guitar and drums on his latest EP "Trust". Check out the video version of our podcast on YouTube.

Check out his links:
https://www.ryantremblaymusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/RyanTremblayMusic/

Don't forget to check out our site. https://www.drumsandrums.com/
 

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On this episode of Drums and Rums, we go metal international. I met Alejandro and Vik on the Facebook group "The Art of Drumming". Alejandro is the drummer for the German metal band Flame or Redemption and Vik is the drummer for the metal band Last Walk from India. We talk about what the music scene is like in their countries, dealing with COVID-19 and canceled gigs, what kits they play and some of their influences. If you consider yourself a metal head, you need to check these bands out. They will melt your face. Hope to see them here in the US soon.

Check out their sites:

Last Walk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheLastWalkBand 
IG: https://www.instagram.com/lastwalkband/ 
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB36YdQMqI3-u6UOuI7Q3mA  

Flame or Redemption
Demo Song: http://www.flameorredemption.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/flameorredemption

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Due to COVID-19 we moved to doing online podcast sooner than I though. On this episode, we welcome Erik Truelove to the first podcast via the Internet. We connected via Matt Patella's Facebook group, "The Art of Drumming". On this show we talk how he got into music, work / life balance, being a music teacher, NAMM, product endorsement and a product called the Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer. 

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Part 2 of episode 2,  Rene and Brad talk about their recent recording of new tracks at Rain Cat studios. Also a little something about getting down odd time signatures.
Rene discusses stick control, discipline to practicing and life long continuous learning. B-rad talks about pushing to learn a new song ever day to feed his music apetite. Make sure you catch part 1 first.

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We welcome our first drummer, Rene Rivera, to Drums and Rums and his rhythm section partner in crime, Brad Eavenson. Rene talks about the importance of playing to the click, putting the time in before getting to rehearsal, working with Brad and being a pocket drummer. This episode we sample Cayman Reef rum, a 5 year aged Barbadian rum. Check out podcast number 2 and a few of Lochness Monster's tunes