August 1st Issue, 2008

In this issue..

1) Rudiments Around The Kit DVD filmed at the snow & outback desert!
2) Broken Swiss Fills - applying a broken up version of the Swiss Army Triplet as a fill around the kit!
2) UDS 2007 gets 5 stars and "..the best and certainly cheapest one-stop package I've seen" in Rhythm UK magazine!

Rudiments Around The Kit - Around Australia DVD - available late Nov 2008
Filmed outdoors around Australia from the Alpine Snow, Devils Marbles, Pinnacles Desert and more!

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What is Rudiments Around The Kit? (RATK)

Rudiments Around The Kit is an exciting new multi DVD set we're releasing in time for Christmas this year. It covers absolutely every aspect of applying your standard and non standard rudiment / hand patterns around the kit as fills, beats or solo ideas.

All of the DVD's like this on the market today, teaching systems of applying rudiments around the kit, only teach a few ways to play the Standard 40 PASIC Rudiments. While RATK will definitely go in depth into demonstrating great ways of applying the standard 40, it goes WAY beyond this, covering (we can guarantee it) twice as much information as our competition. Here is what is covered in RATK..

* Complete Technique Workshop
* Standard 40 Rudiments - Applied
* Standard 40 Rudiments - Permutations
* Advanced Rudiments - Applied
* Advanced Rudiments - Permutations
* Rudimental Independence
* Snare / Drumkit Solos
* Groove Tracks and heaps more!

"Broken Swiss Fills!"

This issue comes to you from Mt Hotham where we filmed RATK yesterday. It nearly didn't happen at all. After lugging a full kit, recording gear and a labyrinth of mic leads and cables 150 metres UP a ski slope, it then took us 4 hours to set up the gear under tarps (see pics above), in order to keep all the electrical gear dry while it snowed heavily. Finally we got there!

One of the sections in the Advanced Rudiments DVD's is a very in depth workshop on the Swiss Army/Blushda rudiment which is an extremely popular pattern/fill. Today's video shows you the section that comes after that called Broken Swiss Fills. Enjoy!

This video is 28MB, please be patient. 

UDS 2007 gets 5 stars in Rhythm UK magazine!

We're very excited to report that our flagship product "Ultimate Drumming Solution 2007" (12 disc set) got an outstanding review in the August 08 issue of Rhythm UK magazine. The reviewer gave UDS 2007 5 stars and amongst other wonderful comments said that it was "the best and certainly the cheapest one-stop course I've seen".

Many thanks to Rhythm UK mag for a great review, buy it in stores now, it has this cover..