Drums

Well I set up my daughter's Christmas present yesterday and she's really enjoying it. It sounds really good to my ears.

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First additional thing I now need to buy is some kind of amp / speaker so she can show off! She's currently using some old Sennheiser headphones.

P.S. yes I'll tidy up the cables :p.
 
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Our Yamaha kit went down a storm as well, chuffed to bits with the value we got, and having the amp really helps. Already been jamming along with a friend on the guitar, and messing around with recording some tracks. Plenty more practise required, but I can see this being a great addition to skill base. :)
 
Perhaps something that may be worth a look at to play anywhere.

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@Participant @Journey If you find the kick drum makes too much noise then put some floor boarding down with 1/2 tennis balls between the real floor and the boarding with the kit on top.

Also - get a kick pad protector as a kick pedal will start abrading rubber/mesh. I had one on from the start and it kept the kick pad like new under the protector.
 
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First additional thing I now need to buy is some kind of amp / speaker so she can show off! She's currently using some old Sennheiser headphones.
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I have a Laney AH300 and two of the Laney AH150s which are perfect amps for anything, on stage I put an electric guitar, acoustic and keyboards but my bass player has used one as a bass amp and my drummer used his eDrums through one of them at practise.
One of the 150s is being used a stage monitor at the moment.
I bought the Laney AH150s this year second hand - one cost £125 and the other £100.
My Laney AH300 is on Marketplace because I don't need it any more now I've got the other two.

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Bumping this thread as we’ve just invested in an Alesis Mesh Turbo kit for our daughter. She’s only 6, just starting out but showing some enthusiasm and we thought why not?! It’s impossible to practice without an instrument in any meaningful way. To a non-drummer (that’s me) the mesh heads seem to give really decent feedback.

Are there any good games or apps that we can connect the kit to (USB out) to get a bit more feedback and interaction with practice? To think, the hours that I wasted on guitar hero at uni, I could probably have actually got quite good on the drums learning that way as it’s quite transferable.

She’s a leftie as well, so have set up everything in reverse. Might make things interesting if mummy and daddy want to learn too!
 
Best thing is playing along with music she likes. Learning good form now (read: drum teacher) will help in the longer run.

I learnt later in life, so I’m probably not the beast advisor. My childhood was spent with a guitar.
 
NickK said:
Best thing is playing along with music she likes. Learning good form now (read: drum teacher) will help in the longer run.

I learnt later in life, so I’m probably not the beast advisor. My childhood was spent with a guitar.
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Thanks! We’ve got her some drum lessons which she’s doing well at considering she’s six!

Will get some apps and hopefully she can find some of the songs that she likes on there.
 
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Thanks! We’ve got her some drum lessons which she’s doing well at considering she’s six!

Will get some apps and hopefully she can find some of the songs that she likes on there.
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It's no replacement for a real teacher but I have signed up to Drumeo for the last 4 years and it's superb. If she can learn drum score (it's not hard at all) then before long she'll be able to play all the basics and Drumeo has "method" which literally starts from day 1 of picking up sticks.. and goes to very advanced.
There are thousands of songs there to play along with as well.
 
Plenty of left handers around but perhaps not so many teachers. Alternatively if you're literally just starting, take a look at open handed playing too - much easier for a lefty to master than a righty thats been playing some time the traditional way, and offers some advantages as well as potentially keeping a right handed kit setup.
 
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I'm absolutely loving the Drumeo "Pro Drummer hears ......... for the first time" series, such a great idea!

With Portnoy its really surprising to me that, despite his amazing skills, his learning style doesn't really include listening to the song and trying to remember what it "sounds" like so it seems more difficult as he dives into the timing (numbers) to work it out rather than "listening & repeating" - It's such a different learning style to my own as I'm very much a "Listen/Repeat/Listen/Repeat..................." player who has almost no idea about how to play something that 3/8, 5/8, 6/8 etc if told to me as numbers but give me a song like Pneuma and I'll repeat large parts of the song (and therefore do 3/8, 5/8, 6/8 happily) after working out how to repeat it after just listening and repeating time after time.

I get he's only had a few hours so its not a slight on his performance, its just surprising at the different ways of doing something.
 
ianh said:
I'm absolutely loving the Drumeo "Pro Drummer hears ......... for the first time" series, such a great idea!

With Portnoy its really surprising to me that, despite his amazing skills, his learning style doesn't really include listening to the song and trying to remember what it "sounds" like so it seems more difficult as he dives into the timing (numbers) to work it out rather than "listening & repeating" - It's such a different learning style to my own as I'm very much a "Listen/Repeat/Listen/Repeat..................." player who has almost no idea about how to play something that 3/8, 5/8, 6/8 etc if told to me as numbers but give me a song like Pneuma and I'll repeat large parts of the song (and therefore do 3/8, 5/8, 6/8 happily) after working out how to repeat it after just listening and repeating time after time.

I get he's only had a few hours so its not a slight on his performance, its just surprising at the different ways of doing something.
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Yep it's really interesting seeing people's styles of learning. I can't remember who it was, maybe it was Gregg Bisonette. He listened through a song about 4 times, and wrote down shortened drum score on the 2nd floor tom head in felt pen... then played it!

For me I really struggle learning songs just by ear, but then I'm dyslexic so no wonder really. I can however read drum score easily and can play many things through first time .. inc tool stuff. Takes a little while to get good at it of course. But then learning it without score... yep that takes a while.
 
That Portnoy vid is quite enlightening - for someone who is often maligned for his over used signature fill... Turns out he REALLY can play.
 
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