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I started playing the drums when I was 16, a few years after I started guitar (skip to Here's How I Did It if you don't care). It fed a different need—one that had me drumming on my steering wheel to a turn signal metronome. A few years after I rented an apartment in Los Angeles, it came time for me to find a neighbor-friendly electronic drum kit. These kits have some issues, though. If they're affordable, they probably sound like crap. Kick drums always seem to slide around, even with a dedicated rug to sit on. I needed something stable that sounded authentic. Like manna from Heaven, I found the answer—the Roland TD4KP. A lightweight kit with a kick drum attached to the frame. It folds up, and it doesn't sound half-bad either.  Unfortunately, Roland discontinued the TD4KP somewhere around 2018. I only discovered this change afterward, having declined buying one for half price during B&H Photo's Christmas clearance sale that year. I thought it could wait, but m...

A few years ago, a friend of mine asked me for help writing SEO-driven content. I wrote him the following email, and I'm sharing it here for anyone who needs it.   ------------ What's happening, Drew? So, when writing a web page, you want to create a series of headers that will draw traffic. I'll try to explain them here. First is your H1. An H1 looks like this. Your H1 is ONLY the main search term and geographical area . Only.  Nothing fancy, as much as you'll want to make it a catchy headline. Don't. That's for the next one.  So, what's the main search term? I was looking up my friend's solar company, and this is what I found, courtesy of the free website called UberSuggest . You'll see here that I typed in the search term, "solar power ogden utah," but the major search term was alternative energy . All my ads and marketing should be optimized for that, because that will drive traffic and boost my SEO score. My headline would now...