Hello Drummers 🥁

This week we’re thinking about independence!

Not the kind of independence where you leave home and start having to wash your own socks, but the four-way independence of your body, where you can get your arms and legs to start doing different things separately from each other!

Here’s a few simple things to try:

◦ Rub your tummy while you pat your head.
◦ Tap one foot on the floor - one,two. Tap the other foot - three, four. Now bring the hands in, get your dominant hand counting the one, while the non-dominant hand counts two, three, four. Keep going!
◦ Brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand (so, if you’re right-handed, use your left hand, or vice-versa if you’re a leftie!). Don’t try this when you’re wearing a suit though, it can get really messy!
◦ Start doing other things with your non-dominant hand! Try opening doors - it’ll feel weird at first, but the more you practice the better you’ll get. Eat your cereal with the wrong hand at breakfast - just make sure you have a napkin at the ready!

Now isn’t that more fun than washing your socks?

Have a great week, everyone! 🥁🥁🥁


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Blog post for 07/02/2022


Hello Drummers 🥁

Something we get asked from time to time here at Ravebugs HQ, is about posture. It’s worth getting into good habits with your posture, because if you spend a lot of time at the drum kit, either practicing or performing, it’s easy to end up with aches and pains. A lot of this comes down to getting your kit set up correctly to suit you and your frame, for example the drum set-up for someone who’s 5’3” is going to be a lot different to someone who is 6’3”!

Phill usually directs people to this article on the Drumeo website, which goes into more detail - check it out to find out more!

https://www.drumeo.com/beat/good-drumming-posture/

Have a great week, everyone! 🥁🥁🥁


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Blog post for 31/01/2022


Hello Drummers 🥁

Have you seen any of the Beatles Get Back documentary series? It’s well worth a watch, featuring hours of footage of The Beatles as they create the masterpieces we all know and love.

Watching this got us looking into more of the inspiration of other Beatles songs, with this particular nugget proving very interesting! It’s the poster bought by John Lennon (this very week in fact, in 1967) from an antiques shop in Surrey, which provided him with most of the lyrics for the Beatles song ‘Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite’. The actual poster dates from 1843 - I wonder what the original creators of the poster would have thought of what they inspired, more than a hundred years later!

Have a great week, everyone! 🥁🥁🥁


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