News — my drum is sliding

KBrakes Grips

KBrakes Grips

Check out KBrakes Grips and HiStops on the Ludwig vistalite in the KBrakes Drum Room! KBrakes Grips are the only hard surface kick drum anchor of their kind. With KBrakes Grips you can play you drums on a hard surface with out a drum rug. The kick drum creep is annoying but it's even more annoying when you aren't playing on a rug. Drummers have always had to play on a rug because there was never a low cost option that provided the stability that a drummer would need to be able to kick the drum 5000 times a night...

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Drummers leave your cinder blocks at home!

KBrakes are a product for drummers to stop their bass drum from sliding. We hear from a lot that drums DO NOT SLIDE if you "know how to use your gear" if you "have good and expensive drums" if you "set up your drums correctly" and if you "just use the spikes".  Touring drummers will say that sliding "sometimes just happens". Drummers all over the world play amazing drums like DW, Mapex, Tama, QdrumCo, C&C, Slingerland, Ludwig and more and from time to time they all move, jump, twist, shift and slide around. We see a lot of make shift solutions out...

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