Master your addiction is an AUDIO CD designed to energize and motivate all levels of players to do more with their drumming. You will...
• Learn how to Set goals
• Why you should practice & jam and how they differ
• Discover what a professional really does to be a professional
• Hear how to create unique sounds
• Learn to get the best sounds from the gear you’ve got
• Find out a simple but very effective technique to control nerves
• See how different equipment suits different situations and learn how some small changes can make a HUGE difference to your set up
There's even a play along track on there (with and without drums).
RRP is $19.95
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................So..... once upon a time there was a kid who liked music.... blah blah blah........ (he he)I'll keep this as short and sweet as I can!!I was born 21st of May, 1971 as James Kuijpers (although I was only EVER called James when I was being told off! - Jamie is what it turned into). I started playing music when I was just 5 years of age, beginning with guitar and throughout my teenage years I performed in cover and original bands and created lots of music (or in some cases noise!!). Whilst at high school I was shown how to play a VERY basic 4/4 beat on a kit and suddenly my desire to play percussion grew and a new hobby was born.While spending a number of years (13 to be exact!) working in the music retail industry and teaching private guitar students, I found that I began to play more and more kit and less guitar. Then, when I left the retail industry to work with Music Link (Australian distributors for Pearl, Zildjian and loads of other brands), I finally made drums my main instrument and continued to perform regularly in the Adelaide music scene. I have spent the past 7 years working with the worlds leading musical instrument manufactures including, Pearl, Zildjian, Latin Percussion, Remo, and Vic Firth. In that time I have had an amazing opportunity to travel the world, meet and learn from some of todays finest musicians and business people including Karl Lewis of Savage Garden, Terrepia Richmond of The Whitlams, Michael Barker from the John Butler Trio, John Otto of Limp Bizkit, Virgil Donati, Steve Smith, Grant Collins, Dom Famularo, Nate Morton, Tommy Igoe, Alejandro Vega, Vic Firth, Debbie Zildjian and Remo Belli.I've performed clinics around the country, in front of hundreds of all types and levels of musicians, young and old, beginners to pros, sharing my thoughts, teachings, enthusiasm and knowledge with anyone thats open to learning. I've been the MC for some of Australia's biggest drumming events, including Zildjian Day 2002 in Sydney, Australian Drum Festival 2005 also in Sydney and have done work shops at the Ultimate Drummers weekend in Melbourne.I currently manage Billy Hyde Music Adelaide on Waymouth St, so I'm back in music retail and loving it! I also do fill in gig's for friends (when time permits) and occasional session work in studios. My favorite things to do these days (other than performing) are playing with my kids and kayaking (which I only started in 2004!)I am a vegetarian, don't drink coffee, a natural blonde and my favorite Disney character is Pluto!!There you go!!!
