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WELCOME TO THE KEVIN'S RANTS EDITION OF THE DAILY FILL WITH OUR OTHER BEARDED PODCAST HOST MR. KEVIN CIARLELLI

What's going on today?

Hello, it's Kevin with you today for another rant! On this episode, we have our first ever guest on Kevin's Rant. Scott Jackson will be joining us to have a very close look at drumsticks. As a matter of fact, the rant was so long we're going to break it up into two parts. 

Today in part one. We will be going over the different types of wood you can expect to find most drumstick manufacturers using these days. The big three types of wood. Maple, Hickory, and Oak. This segment can help build your knowledge of the characteristics of these different types of wood. Scott also touches on some of the exotic woods that some stick makers use.

The next topic we get into is tip shapes and how they can affect the sound and feel of the drumstick. Scott spends a lot of time explaining his take on what you can expect from some of the different types of tip styles. There are quite a few styles but we try our best to break down how you can tell what would best fit several different scenarios.

That concludes our first part on drumsticks. We are really excited to help everyone understand what you can expect in a drumstick just by knowing its parts. In part two of this series, we will be digging into the taper, diameter and sizing, length, and coatings. We can't wait to bring you next week's episode!

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Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Daily Fill with our Owner and founder Richard Ducat! Every Tuesday Richard gives us a dose of motivation, guidance, life hacks, marketing tips, and more!

Today’s quote “ where focus goes, energy flows “ - Tony Robbins

On today's episode, we talk about being proactive with your playing, your career, and your approach to life. We all have those reactive moments, you know, the guy cuts you off at a light and you roll your eyes or raise your hands at the driver. Sometimes it’s those reactive moments that get us punched in the face by the giant muscle man driving that truck who you flipped off. I know that’s a little much but you know what I mean.

The Stimulus-Response gap is the time between the action against you and your response to it. The better we can master this moment in time the better we can handle anything that is thrown at us. One thing I have always struggled with is my lack of patience with trying to learn to new songs on the drums. Sometimes my hands and legs just can’t make it happen and in the past, it would be like me to toss my sticks in frustration. My patience game was always weak growing up and even after learning this principle, practicing it, living it, and even teaching it I found myself having trouble applying it in every chaotic situation that came about.

One thing that helps me navigate through the mess is always keeping the end in mind. In an easy way to focus on your priorities as a person is by thinking about what you want people saying about you at your funeral. I know, it’s morbid… but really think about it. Did you want to be remembered as a guy that worked really hard? Do you want to be remembered as a good parent? How about being remembered for helping your community? Put this into serious consideration as you put together your day to day to-do lists and 1, 2, and 5-year plans. It can really help clarify things for you.

So let’s apply this to our lives right now! Ask yourself… What’s something I consistently have negative reactions to and how can I change work to expand the Stimulus-response gap we have during our typical quick reaction response!

That’s it for today’s episode of the Daily Fill! Tune in next week for more motivation, more guidance and more practical tips that can be applied to your day today!

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Welcome to the Monday edition of the Daily Fill with our lead educator Scott Jackson! Every Monday Scott drops into give us a quick drum lesson that we can apply to our playing right now! Let's get started...

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been discussing a very subtle and introspective topic. And that topic is, objectively judging your technique and more importantly your Sound behind the drum set. Similar to the previous lessons, this week we focus on the start of the 3rd Primary Class of a Drummer the "Advanced Class" within this class falls Level 7, 8, and 9 however; we will only discuss Level 7 and 8 this week

Let's break down the Advanced Class.

The Advanced Class: This class expands over three different levels, and is the class where you really come into your own. At this point in your drum career, the main focus is mastering what you know while still focusing on learning some new ideas or taking old ideas new the next level. What I mean by that is, you focus more on having extremely consistent time keeping within a groove and soloing. You take an old fill or lick and permutate it, play it in a new subdivision, or add more notes to it. You begin to focus on Mastering what you know to help you in your performing and teaching career

So in this stage, I recommend private lessons an elite player that knows what it takes to get to the career you want to have

Level 7: 7-10 years of playing experience: Master What You Know

 

New Skills: you continue to master new subdivisions like quintuplets septuplets, and new poly-rhythms, you also work on shifting between all subdivisions. You continue to learn how to read these new rhythms and master reading in any time signature.

Styles: Styles continue to develop, in this stage you are focused on mastering the styles you know on the drum set. Exact time keeping and consistency becomes a major focus

Time Keeping: Being more consistent while mastering how to be "center" " behind" or "in front" of the beat.

Level 8: 9-12 years of playing experience: Master and Sustain

In this level, you are focused on not just creating more opportunities in your career, but also sustaining your career. You have probably quit your day job and our doing a great number of things to create and sustain a viable career with drums. You could be teaching, performing, making online lessons, making YouTube Drum Covers, and so on.

This stage is a stage of gaining experience and mastering the skills required through that experience. In pursuit of this, one thing will happen you will begin to create a sustainable career within music.

A quick note here, this is also the level that you start to find your niche or your strengths as a drummer. You start to realize what you a really good at and you realize you have two options. 1: You could solely focus on those strengths and make your career that. An example is, being a rock or pop drummer, a gospel or rnb drummer, or a jazz drummer. 2: You can try to master a number of styles in order to have more opportunities. Whichever you prefer is perfect, and that choice is yours to make. No one else can make that for you. Your journey with Music and playing drums, in the end, is something that is YOURS to take. So, a lot of decisions will ultimately come down to YOU. People can help you or advise you, but yous till make the choices all the way down to what you play, how you play, and how often do you practice etc. Hope this helps. Now... go drum.

For a more detailed breakdown, I will be posting a PDF file with the last Podcast of this series that will available for download.

Remember, Each stage will be different for everyone, and over the coming weeks I will outline each Level via my

Welcome back to another episode of the Drummers I Like Podcast! This week Kevin and I are back on track and excited to be chatting with the talented, successful, and true drumtrepreneur Bianca Richardson. Bianca is an absolute class act and this episode truly reflects what happens when three drummers get caught in the moment. Bianca has played with a multitude of highly praised artists including the legendary Marcus Miller.

About our guest:

Bianca Richardson is a professional drummer, educator, and touring artist with a background that truly preserves the idea that you have to be work diligently without sacrificing prudence and delivery. Her assertive nature and ability to dominate all styles of music have put her in endorsement positions with Turkish Cymbals, Protec, Vector Pedals, GoPro, and Evans Drumheads! Her powerful skillset has given her opportunities to work with a handful of superstar artists such as Artur Menezes, Marcus Miller, and Nick Walker.

What started off as a stand against sexism turned into the motivation behind the drums that would grow into an extremely successful future and jam-packed experience. Getting her drumline licks in behind the bass drum really gave her an advantage on drumset as she grew some pretty solid chops and some serious control with her hands.

Key Points from today's episode:

* Drive and motivation can be converted into some serious chops if focused correctly.

* Taking advantage of every opportunity can get you that much closer to your goals.

* The Key to success is learning to be everywhere at once.

Bianca is a success machine and we can't wait to see what the next few years bring to her on her journey to the top. Her unparalleled approach to this whole drum game is something not many drummers have attuned to so if you're looking for a new path to explore for success take some notes.

That's it for this episode of the Drummers I Like Podcast, tune in next week!

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WELCOME TO THE KEVIN'S RANTS EDITION OF THE DAILY FILL WITH OUR OTHER BEARDED PODCAST HOST MR. KEVIN CIARLELLI

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Hello, it's Kevin with you today for another rant! On this episode, I want to take a minute to revisit the Promark Firegrain drumsticks. With more time playing with these sticks, I believe it's time look at how they have continued to hold up as well as how the sticks feel.

Starting out first today we talk a little about the new Circa Survive album, and we enjoy the track Mandala from their earlier days off of the album On Letting Go. The track has some fabulous drums. Steve Clifford also really shines on the newest album The Amulet. So go check it out.

Listen out for more of my experience with the Firegrain's. I won't spoil the show but I can say I'm pleasantly surprised. Promark has really done well with this line of sticks. Now with a busy weekend gigging with the Rebound 5A size under my belt. I really thought it was time to have another chat about these new sticks!

Make sure to check out next weeks show cause I've got a great surprise in store for next week. Listen to the rant today to hear what that's all about! I can't wait to rant more next week!

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That's it for today's episode of the daily fill! Want to add to the conversation? Leave a comment below and let us know what you want to hear on Kevin's Rant or just to add to the topics we talked about today! You can also reach out directly to me at [email protected] or at my Instagram handle kmc_drums. The links are also below. Thanks again for listening and I'll talk to you next week for another rant.

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Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Daily Fill with our Owner and founder Richard Ducat! Every Tuesday Richard gives us a dose of motivation, guidance, life hacks, marketing tips, and more!

On today's episode, we talk about my favorite topic in the entire world. Daily Planning through Journaling. It is by far my number one key to success and how I keep track of my entire life every day. The best part is that It only takes me 5-10 minutes a day to prep it.

Step 1: Template it and ride

Ok.... There is a big misconception with templates and it all starts with the issue of repetitive tasking. Trust me... This will not be an issue if you are creating a Journal theme for each day. This is something that plays a big role in your journaling process. It's a lot easy to choose a specific day of the week for different types of tasks. Example: I choose Monday and my most coveted day. This is the day in which I need the most time to focus on my tasks and abilities to structure the important tasks that span my week. So on Monday I write content, follow up on email, handle tedious tasks like planning and strategy along with the recordings of two of my podcasts. That's it. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my outreach days and the days I try and schedule my phone calls, in-person meetings, and guest podcasts. This is also a school day for my Son so I cram a lot into a small section of time which is why I choose tasks like graphics, content curation and quick turn-around items that I wouldn't need much time to handle. Wednesday is my cool down day and the that focuses on big-picture tasks like the team and company goals, organization, long-term strategy and more. Friday is my follow-up day. I try and stay away from heavy tasks because I am so anxious to hang with my son all weekend that I don't perform at my highest abilities.

Step 2: Evaluate, adjust, review. Every week

This is the most important step in the simple 2 step process to Daily Planning and Journaling. Every week you need to take a step back and evaluate your week. What worked for you and what didn't work for you? What tasks did you easily complete and what tasks were truly impossible to get to? One issue I constantly face with my journaling is scheduling tasks that are not conducive to my company goals and needs. What I end up doing is skipping the task or pushing it to another day to waste a section of my journal. You must prioritize and create a master calendar for all your most important recurring weekly tasks is a smart move( I will cover this in a future episode). Once you get through your first month of templating your daily planners you will see a pattern of what does and doesn't work for you.

So, what's the point, Rich?

The point is being the best version of yourself that you can be. The point is succeeding as a drumtrepreneur, being the best employee you can be, being a great teammate, and being able to excel for the better of your personal career in music and in any organization that you have the pleasure of working with! I know this value doesn't apply to everyone but I like to think that most drummers really work hard to be the best they can be all across the board.

Got a working template that is kicking ass for you? Send me an email at [email protected] and let me know how it's working for you! Also, if you think my templates would help you then I would be stoked to start creating digital versions of them for you all! Just let me know!

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Welcome to the Monday edition of the Daily Fill with our lead educator Scott Jackson! Every Monday Scott drops into give us a quick drum lesson that we can apply to our playing right now! Let's get started...

Over the next couple of weeks, I wanted to talk about a very subtle and introspective topic. And that topic is, objectively judging your technique and more importantly your Sound behind the drum set. Similar to last week, this week we focus on the start of the Second Primary Class of a Drummer the "Intermediate Class" within these class falls Level 3, 4, 5 and Level 6, however; we will only discuss Level 5 and 6 this week

Let's break down the Intermediate Class.

The Intermediate Class: This class expands over four different levels, and Level 5 is the pinnacle turning point in your study of drums. This is the level that you either climb the mountain of drumming or you decide, "I am happy with what I can play" Level 6 is the moment you break free, sort of...

So in this stage, I recommend private lessons at least TWICE a month either in person or online via Skype or any other platform. If you want to be self-taught, this is the time for you to seek guidance. Second, I recommend increasing your practice time. Instead of 30 minutes a day of practice time, amp it up to one hour a day.

Level 5: 4-6 years of playing experience

This is the most demanding level in your development behind the drum set. You are learning a ton of different concepts all at the same time. New styles, grooves, rudiments, techniques, soloing skills, reading, rhythms, and anything else drum related. You will have to be behind the drum set more and more! Practicing more will help you through this stage. The less you practice the longer you will be here... So, practice and just don't practice but practice SMART.

Breakdown of Skills you could learn: The Standard 26 Rudiments, Styles such as Swing, Afro-Cuban, Progressive rock/metal, Soca, Calypso, Samba, Salsa, Guanguanco, Rhumba, Africa styles, etc. Furthermore, you will be learning new rhythms, reading rudiment or snare drum solos. Performing in Jazz Band, Concert Band, Symphony, Cover Bands, or an Original Band. You will start to learn Linear Style of playing Drums

Level 6: 5-7 years of playing experience

Level 6 is a big stage too. You are not quite done studying drums, however; compared to when you first started you are extremely comfortable behind the drum set. Although, you notice something is missing and it can be frustrating. That thing is being creative, finding your "voice" behind the drum set, and is becoming a better musician not just a better drum set player. The drum set is an awkward instrument to play, so you start to put more time in becoming comfortable behind the drum set. So, a primary focus during this stage is Time Keeping while playing a Groove and(NEW AWARENESS) Timekeeping while you SOLO...

For a more detailed breakdown, I will be posting a PDF file with the last Podcast of this series that will available for download.

Remember, Each stage will be different for everyone, and over the coming weeks I will outline each Level via my drum lessons page. The outline is not to tell you what you should be learning, but what you could be learning. Again, this is a very personal guide and each level will vary for each drummer. However, by the end of this series, you should be able to write down the skills you are working on and how skillfully you perform them to determine which Level you are in.

This topic is extremely subtle, and sometimes can make you confront areas of your playing you haven't thought of before. So, just stay with me,

Welcome back to episode 67 of the Drummers I Like Podcast! This week Kevin is back as he joins Richard for a guest-less episode of the podcast. This is a particularly fun episode as it's the first time we have ever been live for questions. Granted, it was only through Instagram it was still something very cool. We ask the big question... rack toms or floor toms? 

That's it for episode 67 of the Drummers I like Podcast. We will be back Monday with another episode of the Daily Fill featuring a new Drum Lesson from our head educator Scott Jackson.

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This month of Drummers I Like Pro is our biggest month yet. Scott is severely talented at what he does and that fact that he is dropping so much knowledge for SO little is mind blowing to not only me but the entire team here at Drummers I Like Pro! Want to get involved? Want to get a free drum lesson from Scott right now?  JUST CLICK HERE

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WELCOME TO THE KEVIN'S RANTS EDITION OF THE DAILY FILL WITH OUR OTHER BEARDED PODCAST HOST MR. KEVIN CIARLELLI

What's going on today?

Today Kevin is finally back after 2 weeks, with another one of his rants. On episode number 8, Kevin rants about being down over the last couple of weeks due to hurricane Irma, as well as talking about playing along with a click in a live setting. Don't forget to reach out to Kevin for a chance to have your input shared on the next podcast. Or possibly choose the next topic for a rant

Tempo is something we all strive to master as drummers. But what do we do when musicians in our group have tempo issues of their own? The Pro Metronome app is a great tool to be able to set up click tracks to have at the ready for live shows. But how do you get the entire band to gel to your tempos? We talk about that and more on today's rant.

It's no secret... Keeping up with Drummers I Like Pro, managing 5 podcasts, structuring content plans and trying to create a community takes a toll on a team. This is why we are looking for interns again but this time we are picking very specifically. We need some help building our community, managing our social media, creating graphics, branding, editing videos, creating blog content, and more! It is a lot! I KNOW!!! That's why we need so much help from our listeners as we grow our shows to farther height than ever!

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That's it for today's episode of the daily fill! Want to add to the conversation? Leave a comment below and let us know what you want to hear on Kevin's Rant or just to add to the topics we talked about today! You can also reach out directly to me at [email protected] or at my Instagram handle kmc_drums. The links are also below. Thanks again for listening and I'll talk to you next week for another rant.

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Welcome to the Wednesday Morning Fuel edition of the Daily Fill! Every Wednesday Richard gets on the line with close friend and associate J.C. Clifford to chat everything from Business, life, the great outdoors, survival, drums and more!

On today's show, J.C. updates us on his evening with Troy Luccketta of Tesla as well as a few cool programs he has up his sleeve.

A few points we cover:

* J.C.'s amazing evening with Troy Luccketta of Tesla

* We talk about the new iPhone and how cell phone plans have become the new Car Lease

* We catch up on everything going on at Drummers I Like!

- Richard

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