Hello my name is Kyle Briere (Mr.SmashKAB), a Canadian musician with 14 years of experience specializing in Percussion playing a wide variety of styles most notably, Hard Rock & Metal. My influences include Danny Carey (Tool), Phil Collins, Josh Freese to name a few. I endeavor to network and work with high caliber songwriters to produce sharply written, memorable tracks.

Over the last 7 years I've produced about 120 videos for my Youtube channel www.youtube.com/mrsmashkab and amassed 315,000 views. These videos include: Drum Covers, Gear Showcases, Original Content from my band “A Dallas Welcome”, and some session work I've done for international collaboration projects. With aspirations to add an analytical flare to my channel, you can expect that I will always be trying new things and sharing my experiences.

• Alternative
• Blues
• Classical
• Experimental
• Folk
• Funk
• Hard Rock
• Hip Hop
• Industrial
• Instrumental
• Jazz
• Metal
• New Age
• Old School
• Orchestral
• Original Score
• Pop
• R&B
• Rock
• Singer/Songwriter
• Soft Rock
• Soundtrack
• Swing
• World

Drums:

My current setup:
Yamaha Recording Custom: 22” Kick (Emad) 10,12,16,18 Toms (Emperor Coated)
Black Panther Maya 14” Snare Drum (Pinstripe Coated)

Left to Right Cymbals:
14” Zildjian Mastersound High Hats
Cymbal stack: 15” Dream Energy hh Bottom with a Zildjian A custom Splash on top.
18” Dream Energy Crash
16” Dream Energy Crash
20” Sabian AAX Dry Ride

10” Dream Bliss Splash
8” Zildjian Trashformer
6” Dream Bell (What’s left of my Dream crash prototype)
16” Wuhan China
24” Dream China
8” Zil-Bel

Recording:

Presonus AR16 board
Shure Mics
Studiolive DAW

Hi there, right now I have a flat rate of $100 per song. I can provide raw drum stems (8 Channels + sample line), production cycle is 3 weeks from when I receive the arrangement. Rough progress mixes will be provided along the way to the final drum tracks.
(With permission, I would also like to include a drummer perspective video on my channel aligned with your final release)