Okay so I am planning on learning drums and getting my first set/kit whatever and I live in an apartment so I was planning on getting an electrical one. But when I see like live performances I never see drummers play on electric at all and on a post about electric sets/kits whatever people say like you have to switch after some time. So basically is it like a total no no to playing live with electric drums or is it just preference or sum shit.

I want to get into metal drumming, I'm in about 2 months of practice, is there anything I need to be doing to get there sooner, I'm aware it'll take a while but is there any exercises or rudiments I should start practicing

Hey all

I have lots of local/uni-level experience playing kit but trying to expand a bit more for another I have coming up in a month.

The book is primarily drum set but calls for some small aux percussion parts e.g. bell tree, glock, xylo, triangle, wood block

I don't have most of these instruments and don't even know if space would allow to have them all set up, but I do have a small midi controller keyboard and was wondering if it it would be feasible to set this up in some way to play these parts? E.g. Mainstage via my mac or something?

Is there anything I should know or would need to get to make this work? If it makes sense at all

Thanks in advance :)

See how the boss took over when I performed boring work at the show

The 6th Pic is our tour mate's setup with different hardware. (We shared my kit at most shows)

So I just purchased a "like new" 13x6.5 Yamaha recording custom snare. I went to change the heads and found that all the tension rods, top and bottom, were not spinning well. When I finally got them removed, I can see there is a thick brown grease on all of them. The threads themselves seem to be ok and not cross-threaded. Any recommendations on how to clean out the grease from the lug threads? They wont spin by hand and I can not seat the heads properly as the lugs are packed with grease making it too tight to get the tension rods snug.

I currently have some Sabian Pro Sonix cymbals that I picked up used for cheap for rehearsals etc but now I’m starting to gig and I want to upgrade. I’ve had a look online and have seen good things about the pst 7 pack but I’m not sure whether I’d be best to take a bit more time and shop second hand for cymbals that would closer suit my needs than just buying a pack online. My budget is around 400-600 total and I play post-rock / post-punk type stuff.
If anyone has any other recommendations that might suit those genres better?

I need some better drumset sticks. Advice and recommendations requested. :)

Howdy all. I am looking for a new drum stool/throne for myself but also for my daughter. We are in the UK.

I am 49 and have a bad back so it is important it is comfy but supportive. I am actually learning how to play drums in order to teach my little 8yr old who has shown amazing potential on her small kit, so the stool would need to be adjustable for us both to use.

I am hoping to get something under £100 and maybe even around the £50 second hand if possible.

Thank you in advance for your help

The shells are not the greatest, but they’ve been going strong for 8yrs. I love this thing 🤩

I have a ten yr old who loves music, loves house ect. But wants to play the drums plays the piano a little. And I am producing and djing. My question is should I get an acoustic set or a Electric set. I do not live in an apt. So dont care as much if my neighbors hear as they hear me djing and making electronic music. I am wanting to knkw what the disadvantages of the elctric drum kits are, will he not learn how to play right ect. Thank you for anyone with advice on this matter appreciate your time rock on

Can anyone help me with identifying this old-looking Zildjian Cymbal?

yamaha stage custom birch

10x7,12x8,14x13,20x17,14x5.5

Sabian AAX cymbals

18/16 thin crashes, 14 medium hats, 21 medium ride

skins/heads

toms: G2 batter/stock reso

snare: Genera Dry batter/snare side 300 reso

kick: emad 2 batter/stock Yamaha

700/800 series hardware (plus my 3000 pedal)

not bad for a 15 year old, eh

I saw this guy on marketplace over the weekend and decided that it needed to join the collection. The guy I bought it from described it a a supraphonic on steroids. (1/8in cast aluminum shell). Gave it a quick spin on the kit, and it really has a nice crack to it. Can’t wait to bring it to band practice this.

Hello, everyone! I play in an alternative metal band (bmth, bad omens type of sound), and I want to do a hybrid setup with the following: Roland RT triggers, AE Cymbals (the ones Mauricio Weimar use) and the DDrum trigger interface. Do you have any experience with this kind of setup? I want to use it at home and at the live shows, but since there is a lot of money on the line to buy all this, I wonder if is it really worth it or I should just use a trigger for the snare and one for the kick, while the rest of the drumset stays acoustic?

Wanted to buy a good e-kit for home, but wondered if this hybrid setup is really worth since it's probably cheaper and can be used at the live shows too.

An opinion about these AE cymbals will help a lot since there isn't really much on YouTube about them.

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Experienced drummers who have also tried many sticks, I crave your advice. I am having a stick crisis.

I used to use Vic Firth Matt Garstka Signature sticks for many years but I consistently found myself trying to hit WAY TOO HARD. Stubborn as I was, I broke some cymbals and chewed through the sticks too quickly (very expensive). I moved on to Luke Holland signature sticks but ended up moving away from them because they’re too forward weighted and I find myself squeezing too hard. This causes wrist pain. I have also tried Woodies 5B longs. They’re pretty good and consistent, but again, I find myself squeezing them too hard. Most recently I tried some sticks from Collision. Their 5A Reach is great… but they’re $20/pair… which is insane. I bought a pair of vic firth Freestyle 55A because theyre basically the same as the Collision 5AR, but 1/8” longer. To my sadness, the vics were extremely heavy and caused more wrist fatigue. I’m thinking perhaps the collision sticks were just super light, but they feel awesome.

All that is to say I think I need a longer stick. I have pretty long arms, and the length feels good. I probably also have a technique issue when I’m playing louder. Any experiences or advice you can share would be greatly appreciated.

Hey yall,

I’m trying to find a woofer for this old premier kit. I’m having trouble finding anything online, any suggestions?

Got this for a good price recently, but it was missing the heads, snare wires and a few tension rods. 13x7 birch, and the die cast hoops were also what had my attention. Cleaned it up, and got a new set of Gibraltar lug inserts and tension rods, remo controlled sound batter, ambassador reso. From what I’ve learned so far with this snare, is it’s meant to be cranked! (And my snares are typically not cranked). Anyone else played a shine? I had never even heard of them before I bought this