Thanks for watching guys! The Alesis gig was disclosed to all of my endorsers before it happened, and everyone is totally fine with it. (E-drums are very much in their own category of “gear”.) There are no changes to the acoustic gear that I play, and I still have great relationships with Meinl, Pearl, Evans, CTM, etc. Pearl actually invited me to do a signing at their UK drum show booth, where I got to tell several hundred of you about the gig a few weeks ago! More to come in my follow up video, where I hope to address some of those details.
Hi Adam - Aha that all makes sense - thanks for the update!! - I came to say hello at the Alesis stand at the UK drum show in Liverpool (and nearly took your head off whilst you were adjusting the cymbals!). I wish you and your family well, and your future relationship with Alesis.
Same thing happened to me with Drumeo. 😂 Been working in the marketing dept making ads for them full time for the past year and I absolutely love it. - but yes, my channel has since died lol (hoping to find a way to change that and manage my time) Anyways, congrats on the new gig and wishing you and your fam the best. ❤
This was a very relatable video Adam. You're 100% right, our mindset, values and sometimes even our interests change. That being said, my advice is to just be you, being you isn't selling out. I'm here for the journey either way 😊
Selling out? Heck no. You're still a drummer and still in the music industry. And the positive contribution to the world you're responsible for, is irreplaceable. Maple is a heart warrior! My cousin's son Grayson is a heart warrior, too. Take care of yourself and your family. Thanks for all you do.
This is fantastic, this is career development at it's best. Congratulations and I will be looking forward to seeing and hearing more on your relationship with Alesis and not just a job.
Huge congratulations Adam. Maple is absolutely beautiful and a stronger heart warrior. My son was born with a heart defect when he was born and required emergence open heart surgery at 5 months… scariest time of our lives but he smashed it.. it’s amazing how our babies can handle more than we can! I’m so happy maple is doing well.
Wow seems that you had a really nice journey so far! Hope it keeps that way, doing espectacular things working for the industry that you love! and hope that you and your family achieve everything makes you happy guys! Glad hearing Maple is healthy! Enjoyable and looong live for her and the rest of the family!
Adam, you’re such a talented. So happy to hear your little beautiful girl is doing so much better.. appreciate your talent and great channel. There isl y grace to you in regards to your life as it is.
Very nice to hear you and your family are okay! Long time struggling musician here happy to hear you have been able to move onto something new and a different challenge :D Best of luck in the new endeavours, can't wait to see what you bring out
So happy to hear that your daughter is doing well. I can’t imagine going through something like that. Congratulations on the new job with Alesis! And taking on new opportunities is not selling out. Steady income, benefits, more recognition and stability for your family. Seems like the next logical step.
Ohhh man breaks my heart seeing her like that ❤so glad shes ok, such a beautiful girl! Your a pure beast dont worry about posting do your thing just great to heAr everything’s good and things are well despite the adversity!!!much love brother to you and your family
My heart goes out to you man. My daughter had open heart surgery at 4 months old. And our best friends son was born with HLHS. Both are 8 years old going strong. 💪❤
Omg Adam I followed you that long from the start omg . 🎉 congratulations . You are a star Adam . Love your content always . We weird as drummers . Big love to maple 🍁 xxxx . You guys have been through hell and back I send you all my love from London uk . Fantastic well done you keep going forward mate congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉 love to your family big kiss to maple. OK ❤❤❤❤ she is beautiful 😍
Had 2 kids since I started watching you and yea goals slightly change when humans depend on you for survival. Can't imagine how tuff open heart surgery would be on one of my girls. Good luck man you're living the dream!
Welcome Welcome back, dear friend! I’m glad your daughter is doing better and that Hurricane Milton didn’t cause too much damage. I wish the best for you and your family! A big hug.
Congratulations! They needed someone like you! I like the direction that Alesis is going! Happy to hear little Maple is recovering well they grow up really fast so enjoy!
Wishing your daughter all the best. In terms of what would be interesting to bring to your channel related to your new position, insight into the marketing process itself or the r & d of a company like Alesis would be cool.
Oh my. 1st and foremost, congratulations on the new baby. I wish nothing but best healing and healthy results. Wow great opportunity for you. I always loved following your project's and video's. I hope you keep your page lessons video's stay accessible. Perhaps you can build that bridge and show how the acoustic and electronic kits can meet the middle road. Your style is so unique and original. Best of luck and wishes in the new chapter.
I am so happy to hear that your daughter is doing well. I know that is always a concern for us that are parents, keeping our children safe and healthy. Well wishes and continued success to you and your family.
Congratulations, Adam...and I'm so very thankful that Maple is successfully making her way back to total health! Looking forward to more of your content, whatever it ends up being! 😊
So glad Maple is doing great. As for ideas, maybe talk about how Alesis can help acoustic drummers. Like making a hybrid kit, the possibilities of a hybrid kit, and sampling its sounds to enhance the acoustic drums for both live and studio.
In no way are you a sellout. Your job is to take care of your family, and you’re doing a great job of it. The fact that you found a stable gig, and got to stay in the industry, is just icing on the cake. Congrats on everything
Huge, man. So many great things happening in your life and that's so amazing. You've definitely worked hard and earned it. But it's also incredible to see the universe give you a break, so to speak, with everything else that's happened. Proud of you, dude. 🤘🏽
First so happy to hear your beautiful daughter is doing well and you and your wife are good with the storm. First, you have did not sell out. You adapted to keep growing in the industry you know and have found success in. Second part of being a Dad is going with the flow and doing what’s right for your family and sometimes decisions are made for you. Cheers and thanks for the update.
Congrats on the success and the always evolving good health of your little one. I think going forward the continuation on this VLOG format with the new job may have some good nuggets of info. Especially for up coming musicians who maybe need to understand how the business side works.
Who would've thought THE "Orlando Drummer" would be hired as a Marketing Specialist for Alesis? Extremely relieved to see Maple all cute and bubbly. So cool and very happy for you, Adam!
Congratulations on this next step in a fantastic career that it's been great to watch. You've given so many of us great benefits from your lessons and your examples and you deserve to see the next milestones in your life unfold in ways that put your experience and the talents you've developed to good use. I've honestly taken my eyes off your channel for a few months and wow did a lot happen. So happy for Maple and her resilience. Best wishes for your family life and your new professional endeavor, and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens. Maybe I'll run into you at NAMM.
Adam First off Congrats on the new Alesis gig and so glad your daughter is doing well and is healthy. She's too adorable As far as what you mentioned about your channel One thing I'd really appreciate is if you're still able to go in depth with different e-kits you can play from time to time. My real experience with e-kits is the roland td30 While I've enjoyed my experience with that particular set I am selling it and looking to get my hands on a newer set Space for me isn't really an issue so I've been looking at the strata prime and the new zildjian alchem-e kits as two big contenders at the moment. Just waiting to get more feedback from others before actually rushing out and buying a new set. But yeah it's just something that I think could be beneficial assuming you can still get your hands on other e-kits. Regardless hope everything continues to work out with Alesis and hope everything continues to go smoothly with your daughter.
Congrats! I could listen to you play drums all day, but the content I enjoy most about the TH-cam drummers I follow are the behind the scenes, day in the life vlogs. Just you being you.
So happy for you, Adam! Your communication skills and genuine personality will both be invaluable in your new career and I think Alesis is lucky to have you. As a middle aged drummer who used to play a high-end Roland kit and completely abandoned edrums for acoustic drums in the past decade, what I would like to learn about is how you think edrums can be best used in live contexts--especially in the age of IEMs for all. Best of luck to you and your young family!
One idea for content is providing the backstory about customer ideas/suggestions and how they’re processed inside the company. Customers always have tons of ideas which sometimes get implemented & sometimes not. I would find it interesting to learn how the company evaluates these ideas for inclusion into future products.
Congratulations my guy. Sorry to hear everything about your little girl. I'm glad everything has turned out well. My band is based out of asheville, and it has been weird, to say the least. I'm glad yall came out well from Milton. Glad you got the gig. No way did you sell out. Anyone who thinks so, as you said, isn't in their mid to late 30's lol. Congrats again on everything
Glad to hear Maple's doing well, and congrats on your new role. In regards to potential ideas on how to merge aspects of your new job with your channel, I'd be interested in some behind the scenes how they made it, recorded etc. the strata prime and some of the challenges and decision making processes; and roadmap type stuff.
something that would be insanely dope and insightful would be a real breakdown of how relationships between companies and artists are built, whether organically or through what might be called "door knocking". and congrats! moving up in the world. love to see it.
Awesome! I said hi to you (was great to meet you) … but then wondered why you were on the alesis stand at the UK drum show. Fantastic news re Maple and the new job! 🥳🙌🏻
Congratulations for all Adam ! Your career is evolving with opportunities and this is well deserved in your case. I'm sure that you will find a way to combine your content with that new position.
I love his drumming style, so entertaining and educational. However, the most valuable skill he has is the ability of expression. Suck an amazing communicator, I think the new gig is a perfect match, not the drummers can't communicate, but this guy has great communication skills. Congratulations on your baby's health and new gig. Peace ✌️
It’s good to hear your daughter is getting well, can’t imagine the stress that comes with it. Congratulations on the job! And I got so excited about the mention of a video you made for Alesis with Mudvayne…..but when will that be released?
Congrats Adam, and in terms of what to do with social media and “youtuber” : I’ve read leadership books that highlight to truly, always be the complete you. You come out as the most authentic from that. Good luck!
No way you're a sell out. You're a father now and need to take care of your family first and foremost, so if this job is pretty much covering bills, and giving you stability, then it's the natural thing to do. Besides, you get to play drums, do it from home and still make content! Keep on rockin man, we love your content
Hey man congrats on the family and the new job! So, I found you a while ago by just searching for drum shed/ trading videos to play along with. Besides 1 or 2 jazz drummers, you seem to be one of the ONLY people I could find with that type of content. I think it'd be cool idea to use those to help showcase the new gear/kits ! "Trading in 3s with the Alesis Strata rock kits" or something like that. Just spit balling but im sure you'll find a way to make this new gig your own! Best of luck!
Hi Adam, I've been following Orlando drums for more than a decade now,you have really inspired my drumming a lot. Thanks for the inspiration mate. Congratulations and best wishes to your new chapter of life your fan all the way in the Pacific islands of PNG🇵🇬.
Thanks for watching guys! The Alesis gig was disclosed to all of my endorsers before it happened, and everyone is totally fine with it. (E-drums are very much in their own category of “gear”.) There are no changes to the acoustic gear that I play, and I still have great relationships with Meinl, Pearl, Evans, CTM, etc.
Pearl actually invited me to do a signing at their UK drum show booth, where I got to tell several hundred of you about the gig a few weeks ago!
More to come in my follow up video, where I hope to address some of those details.
Hi Adam - Aha that all makes sense - thanks for the update!! - I came to say hello at the Alesis stand at the UK drum show in Liverpool (and nearly took your head off whilst you were adjusting the cymbals!). I wish you and your family well, and your future relationship with Alesis.
Congrats on the new gig dude! Maple's beautiful. Isn't it crazy how fatherhood is both the best and the scariest thing ever?
Same thing happened to me with Drumeo. 😂 Been working in the marketing dept making ads for them full time for the past year and I absolutely love it. - but yes, my channel has since died lol (hoping to find a way to change that and manage my time)
Anyways, congrats on the new gig and wishing you and your fam the best. ❤
I would love to see you back ! I miss your own content 😊
Miss your content brother, but enjoying what you're doing > grinding content for sure. 🙌
YOOOOH! you still here😂!
Thank God Maple is doing great!!! Such a little sweetie :3
Great man! You left us a treasure of good content.
This was a very relatable video Adam. You're 100% right, our mindset, values and sometimes even our interests change. That being said, my advice is to just be you, being you isn't selling out. I'm here for the journey either way 😊
Selling out? Heck no. You're still a drummer and still in the music industry. And the positive contribution to the world you're responsible for, is irreplaceable. Maple is a heart warrior! My cousin's son Grayson is a heart warrior, too. Take care of yourself and your family. Thanks for all you do.
This is fantastic, this is career development at it's best. Congratulations and I will be looking forward to seeing and hearing more on your relationship with Alesis and not just a job.
Congrats, man! Man’s gotta get paid and your new gig not only suits you perfectly, but also seems like a blast!
Huge congratulations Adam. Maple is absolutely beautiful and a stronger heart warrior. My son was born with a heart defect when he was born and required emergence open heart surgery at 5 months… scariest time of our lives but he smashed it.. it’s amazing how our babies can handle more than we can!
I’m so happy maple is doing well.
This is really great news!! So glad Maple is doing so well!! Congratulations to you and the family!!!
Wow seems that you had a really nice journey so far! Hope it keeps that way, doing espectacular things working for the industry that you love! and hope that you and your family achieve everything makes you happy guys! Glad hearing Maple is healthy! Enjoyable and looong live for her and the rest of the family!
CONGRATS on the new gig!!! U bring a ton of experience and ur reach to millions will only help the company.
Maple looks absolutely adorable!!!
Wish you and your family a happy life
And thanks a lot for your support enhancing our drumming skills ❤
Nothing makes me more stoked than hearing the update about your daughter! 🫡
So much respect for you and your loving family
Adam, you’re such a talented. So happy to hear your little beautiful girl is doing so much better.. appreciate your talent and great channel. There isl y grace to you in regards to your life as it is.
Very nice to hear you and your family are okay! Long time struggling musician here happy to hear you have been able to move onto something new and a different challenge :D Best of luck in the new endeavours, can't wait to see what you bring out
Wonderful❤❤❤ peace and blessings to you and your family.
I love everything about this video. As someone who has learned a lot from your content….i love seeing people like you have success!
So happy to hear that your daughter is doing well. I can’t imagine going through something like that. Congratulations on the new job with Alesis! And taking on new opportunities is not selling out. Steady income, benefits, more recognition and stability for your family. Seems like the next logical step.
Shux Adam sorry for what you went through bro Grace to you and the fam and congrats on the beautiful baby
It is so good to hear that Maple is doing well. You and your family have been in our prayers and this was great to hear.
Keep exploring, keep pushing for new and better ideas...you are what you make yourself.😎
🔥🔥🔥 Glad you’re doing well bro!
Right on. Picked up many great tips and grooves from you through the years. Looking forward to seeing what your future path brings.
God bless you, your family and path in life
Z
Happy for you and your family!!
Congrats on the health of your baby girl and landing a dream job.
So glad Maple is well! God bless
Great to hear Adam and congrats on everything! Right on!
Ohhh man breaks my heart seeing her like that ❤so glad shes ok, such a beautiful girl! Your a pure beast dont worry about posting do your thing just great to heAr everything’s good and things are well despite the adversity!!!much love brother to you and your family
My heart goes out to you man.
My daughter had open heart surgery at 4 months old. And our best friends son was born with HLHS. Both are 8 years old going strong. 💪❤
Omg Adam I followed you that long from the start omg . 🎉 congratulations . You are a star Adam . Love your content always . We weird as drummers . Big love to maple 🍁 xxxx . You guys have been through hell and back I send you all my love from London uk . Fantastic well done you keep going forward mate congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉 love to your family big kiss to maple. OK ❤❤❤❤ she is beautiful 😍
YES, may the Blessing BE!!!
That’s awesome, dude! This is a great move for you, and especially your family.
Hello Adam, just wanted to wish you the best. You deserve it after all your hard work. Hope Maple, family and work will always go well. Keep it up!
Relief that your daughter's operation went ok. Wish you further success with your new venture.
Had 2 kids since I started watching you and yea goals slightly change when humans depend on you for survival. Can't imagine how tuff open heart surgery would be on one of my girls. Good luck man you're living the dream!
Welcome Welcome back, dear friend! I’m glad your daughter is doing better and that Hurricane Milton didn’t cause too much damage. I wish the best for you and your family! A big hug.
Pumped for you Adam! I love'd to hear you incorporate some of your alesis gear into your acoustic kit and stuff!
...and fuckin.. fatherhood. Lol I felt that! Glad your daughter is doing well ❤. And congrats on your new venture 🙏🙏
Congratulations! They needed someone like you! I like the direction that Alesis is going! Happy to hear little Maple is recovering well they grow up really fast so enjoy!
Wishing your daughter all the best. In terms of what would be interesting to bring to your channel related to your new position, insight into the marketing process itself or the r & d of a company like Alesis would be cool.
I have been watching you for over a decade. I'm proud of you, man!
Oh my. 1st and foremost, congratulations on the new baby. I wish nothing but best healing and healthy results.
Wow great opportunity for you.
I always loved following your project's and video's. I hope you keep your page lessons video's stay accessible.
Perhaps you can build that bridge and show how the acoustic and electronic kits can meet the middle road.
Your style is so unique and original.
Best of luck and wishes in the new chapter.
🍁 maples strong. Glad she is well. I hope everything goes well for u with alesis
God bless you, your wife and precious baby. Shes beautiful. How stressful. Glad things are going well. Always family first!
I am so happy to hear that your daughter is doing well. I know that is always a concern for us that are parents, keeping our children safe and healthy. Well wishes and continued success to you and your family.
Sooooooo glad things are looking up 4 your family as always peace out cincy
Congratulations, Adam...and I'm so very thankful that Maple is successfully making her way back to total health! Looking forward to more of your content, whatever it ends up being! 😊
🥰 cute Bebe beautiful family. If Alesis picked you that means your the best of the best 👍🏽 keep up the good vibes
Congrats on the new job and happy to hear your daughter is doing better. All the best to you guys. 🤘
So glad Maple is doing great. As for ideas, maybe talk about how Alesis can help acoustic drummers. Like making a hybrid kit, the possibilities of a hybrid kit, and sampling its sounds to enhance the acoustic drums for both live and studio.
In no way are you a sellout. Your job is to take care of your family, and you’re doing a great job of it. The fact that you found a stable gig, and got to stay in the industry, is just icing on the cake. Congrats on everything
I’m glad your baby is doing well. Fatherhood is a challenge but so worth it. 👍
Good to hear she is doing well 👍
And I enjoy your Drumming and content
Thank God, payers for you, man. God bless you and your Fam. You are a SUPER addition to Alesis's roster of Marketing and Product development.
Huge, man. So many great things happening in your life and that's so amazing. You've definitely worked hard and earned it. But it's also incredible to see the universe give you a break, so to speak, with everything else that's happened. Proud of you, dude. 🤘🏽
Very happy for you !!! Wish you the best for your new endeavor.
First so happy to hear your beautiful daughter is doing well and you and your wife are good with the storm.
First, you have did not sell out. You adapted to keep growing in the industry you know and have found success in.
Second part of being a Dad is going with the flow and doing what’s right for your family and sometimes decisions are made for you.
Cheers and thanks for the update.
GOD bless on your journey, Sir.
Our little families are everything.
Congrats on the success and the always evolving good health of your little one. I think going forward the continuation on this VLOG format with the new job may have some good nuggets of info. Especially for up coming musicians who maybe need to understand how the business side works.
Congrats to you & the Family !
Who would've thought THE "Orlando Drummer" would be hired as a Marketing Specialist for Alesis? Extremely relieved to see Maple all cute and bubbly. So cool and very happy for you, Adam!
Congrats on the gig man! 🙌 glad you're doing well man, and glad to see you on here again!
Congrats on the move! Glad the family is doing well!
Life is just so crazy man. Good luck for everything, you deserve all the best!
Congratulations on this next step in a fantastic career that it's been great to watch. You've given so many of us great benefits from your lessons and your examples and you deserve to see the next milestones in your life unfold in ways that put your experience and the talents you've developed to good use. I've honestly taken my eyes off your channel for a few months and wow did a lot happen. So happy for Maple and her resilience. Best wishes for your family life and your new professional endeavor, and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens. Maybe I'll run into you at NAMM.
Adam
First off
Congrats on the new Alesis gig and so glad your daughter is doing well and is healthy. She's too adorable
As far as what you mentioned about your channel
One thing I'd really appreciate is if you're still able to go in depth with different e-kits you can play from time to time.
My real experience with e-kits is the roland td30
While I've enjoyed my experience with that particular set
I am selling it and looking to get my hands on a newer set
Space for me isn't really an issue so I've been looking at the strata prime and the new zildjian alchem-e kits as two big contenders at the moment.
Just waiting to get more feedback from others before actually rushing out and buying a new set.
But yeah it's just something that I think could be beneficial assuming you can still get your hands on other e-kits.
Regardless hope everything continues to work out with Alesis and hope everything continues to go smoothly with your daughter.
Congrats! I could listen to you play drums all day, but the content I enjoy most about the TH-cam drummers I follow are the behind the scenes, day in the life vlogs. Just you being you.
Congratulations! This is super interesting. Would love to see BTS at Alesis
So happy for you, Adam! Your communication skills and genuine personality will both be invaluable in your new career and I think Alesis is lucky to have you. As a middle aged drummer who used to play a high-end Roland kit and completely abandoned edrums for acoustic drums in the past decade, what I would like to learn about is how you think edrums can be best used in live contexts--especially in the age of IEMs for all. Best of luck to you and your young family!
One idea for content is providing the backstory about customer ideas/suggestions and how they’re processed inside the company. Customers always have tons of ideas which sometimes get implemented & sometimes not. I would find it interesting to learn how the company evaluates these ideas for inclusion into future products.
Congratulations my guy. Sorry to hear everything about your little girl. I'm glad everything has turned out well. My band is based out of asheville, and it has been weird, to say the least. I'm glad yall came out well from Milton. Glad you got the gig. No way did you sell out. Anyone who thinks so, as you said, isn't in their mid to late 30's lol. Congrats again on everything
Great news. Well blessed. Well done and good luck
Congrats! Glad yall are doing well 🙏
GREATNESS BROTHER !!!! Thank you for Sharing that .
Amazing news. I wish you all the best in your new role. ❤
Glad to hear Maple's doing well, and congrats on your new role. In regards to potential ideas on how to merge aspects of your new job with your channel, I'd be interested in some behind the scenes how they made it, recorded etc. the strata prime and some of the challenges and decision making processes; and roadmap type stuff.
something that would be insanely dope and insightful would be a real breakdown of how relationships between companies and artists are built, whether organically or through what might be called "door knocking". and congrats! moving up in the world. love to see it.
Awesome! I said hi to you (was great to meet you) … but then wondered why you were on the alesis stand at the UK drum show. Fantastic news re Maple and the new job! 🥳🙌🏻
Keep it up man, thanks for your videos. I always appreciate your articulation and execution within your quality videos.
Congratulations for all Adam ! Your career is evolving with opportunities and this is well deserved in your case. I'm sure that you will find a way to combine your content with that new position.
I love his drumming style, so entertaining and educational. However, the most valuable skill he has is the ability of expression. Suck an amazing communicator, I think the new gig is a perfect match, not the drummers can't communicate, but this guy has great communication skills. Congratulations on your baby's health and new gig. Peace ✌️
Рад за тебя, что всё хорошо!)
Congratulations on your new venture, man. God bless you and your family. ☦️
It’s good to hear your daughter is getting well, can’t imagine the stress that comes with it. Congratulations on the job! And I got so excited about the mention of a video you made for Alesis with Mudvayne…..but when will that be released?
Wow may god protect her .wish you and your family all the best
Congratulations Mr. Adam!!!! 🤩
God Bless you and your family.💪🙏🙏🙏
Hiiiiiii. It's great to see you again! I hope you and your family are doing well. I'm following you from Puerto Rico.
Congrats Adam, and in terms of what to do with social media and “youtuber” : I’ve read leadership books that highlight to truly, always be the complete you. You come out as the most authentic from that. Good luck!
No way you're a sell out. You're a father now and need to take care of your family first and foremost, so if this job is pretty much covering bills, and giving you stability, then it's the natural thing to do. Besides, you get to play drums, do it from home and still make content! Keep on rockin man, we love your content
Hey man congrats on the family and the new job!
So, I found you a while ago by just searching for drum shed/ trading videos to play along with. Besides 1 or 2 jazz drummers, you seem to be one of the ONLY people I could find with that type of content. I think it'd be cool idea to use those to help showcase the new gear/kits ! "Trading in 3s with the Alesis Strata rock kits" or something like that. Just spit balling but im sure you'll find a way to make this new gig your own! Best of luck!
Hi Adam, I've been following Orlando drums for more than a decade now,you have really inspired my drumming a lot. Thanks for the inspiration mate. Congratulations and best wishes to your new chapter of life your fan all the way in the Pacific islands of PNG🇵🇬.
Congratulations on the new gig, Adam! Sounds like a brilliant move for you. Hope to try the Strata Prime on day! (My gym is called STRATA. Ha!)
I love this!!
Man that sounds awesome, happy for you and your family! I am curious though how this will affect your endorsement with Pearl drums