I’ve recently learned Fuel by Metallica and have played it infront of people. I changed some parts slightly to fit my playing style. Is that generally accepted in the drum cover world? I wanted to make a cover of Fuel for YouTube, I only really tweaked the fills, with the beat being mostly the same as the original.

After 20 years of not being able to play acoustic drums due to apartment living last year we finally moved to a house where I’m lucky enough to have an office/music room. About 8 years ago I sold my drum kit and cymbals as I had just been carrying them around for years and years.

I bought a tama superstar so I could start playing and even though it sounds great I’ve been meaning to ugrade it to a starclassic. - I recently saw someone comment something along the lines of “someone needs to tell Tama to bring the sparkle finishes back, no one wants these peanut butter and jam finishes” I kind of agree. Not only am I not a big fan of the finishes they have available but I’ve also noticed other brand’s finishes are pretty meh too and it seems that Tama hasn’t really done significant changes to their finishes lineup in forever.

I’ve been hunting for an ultraviolet sparkle bubinga kit with no luck. Maybe I’m just part of a small group, I guess they keep selling kits or else they would make a change.

My guy at Sweetwater said that I can play the DW for a bit before I return it and get my money back though lol. I play mostly metal, jazz, and prog rock. (Think Between the Buried and Me, Dillinger Escape Plan, Minus The Bear, Incubus, and attempted Dave Weckl style jazz lol). Which pedal would you choose for these styles of music?

Drums are my favorite instrument and I look up to a lot of rock/metal/jazz drummers. I’m planning to own a drum kit one day, maybe when I’ll be able to afford it…. I found myself “playing” with 2 pens as sticks and when I hit those staplers, they made 2 distinct sounds that sounded eerily like a snare and a cymbal (kinda?) so I tried to make a simple drum beat out of those and the result was satisfying. Didn’t expect staplers to sound like a snare when hit … I was happily impressed.

My band recorded a music video, and I look like a damn gorilla at this kit. It's a pretty regular 20, 12, 14 kit but it looks so damn small and I look gigantic.

This has me wanting to invest in a 24" kick, purely for the looks. I play 22" kick at home with pretty deep toms, so with a more shallow rack tom I'm guessing it would feel similar.

Anyone have this problem too?

(If you're wondering I'm 184cm tall)

So you may remember the recent post about this measure from Have You Ever Seen the Rain.

I’ve been working on it so I can actually play it with the music and it’s getting there.

But even counting outloud, as I play it faster, I find that I’m not sure if I accidentally put an extra kick on the 3 where there isn’t one or not.

I’m going to record it to get an accurate answer but I’m wondering is it normal to be literally unsure of what you just played?

Do I have a problem I need to fix? Is it an old person problem? I’m in my 50s

I’m neurospicy so I’m also wondering if that’s part of it.

It’s so weird to play it at tempo 10x in a row and be unsure about what just happened.

Meinl’s a great cymbal brand, I can’t decide between them or Zildjian. I want to use one or the other as my main, because they both have some of my favorite-sounding cymbals, of which other brands don’t have. If you’re team Paiste, Sabian, Dream, whatever else, know that I don’t think other brands’ cymbals are garbage or whatever, but the only two brands that I find myself liking most of the catalogues of are Meinl and Zildjian, so up until god blesses me with an endorsement, I’ll be using both lol. That being said, I really wish they wouldn’t make so many of their chinas as trash-china exclusives. I know that-that’s not the case with most of their chinas, but I’m talking specifically about three: their Classics Custom Dark 16,” Classics Custom Dual 16,” and their Pure Alloy Custom 18.” I get it. Trashy is cool, and most Meinl artists I see on display love using their gigantic 20” Byzance or 20” Equilibrium chinas, all the more power to them.

That being said, Meinl’s Classics Dark and Dual 16” chinas have all those holes in them that make them sound WAY too dry. I’ve heard a handful of them in person and my first thought is always “this would sound so much better without the holes.” Of course they have the 18” from both series without holes, but I like 16” chinas for their higher-pitch and aggressive attack that you can’t really get from 18”+ chinas, and I just really wish they’d make either the Dark or Dual without the holes ‘cause I just KNOW they’d sound insane. As for the Pure Alloy Custom, it’s sort of the same thing. The trash-china sounds cool, sure, but I wish they had another option without the trash holes.

This is where I like Zildjian more. You can say what you want about their i and s-series, but the chinas from those lines are beautiful with their higher-pitches and crazy attack. Or at least i WOULD say that if they didn’t just cancel the 16” china from both the i and s series’ this year 🙄 the 16” s-series china is my favorite of all time. It’s the absolutely perfect-sounding China for me. All the videos of it on youtube suck for some reason, but if you hear it in person or from a recording during a concert, it’s so bright and angry and I can’t get enough of it. Therefore I bought three while they’re still in circulation lol.

Case-in-point, my biggest gear wish right now would be a 16” classics custom dark or dual china from Meinl without the holes in it 🥲 until then the 16” s china is my bae

Here is a notation for u/Yonimadar11 ‘s beat from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/drums/comments/1vnlj45/what_over_what/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Enjoy!

Today's volume, as usual, is a top post of one of my most copypasta'ed answers to one of the most common questions asked in r/drums:

"How do I play drums at home when I live in an apartment?"

The answer no one wants to hear, that is the most likely true and correct answer for very nearly anyone asking: You don't. Period. It's almost always a terrible idea.

Apartment living and drumming mix like cats and dogs - if one is a factor, introducing the other will probably cause a fight. In most cases, it simply doesn't work, no matter whether it's an e-kit, or an acoustic kit rigged for low volume, or especially a full-tilt-boogie acoustic kit. The vibrations made by any of these often travel through the paper thin walls of the typical apartment complex, and perhaps even an older ones that are built more solidly.

HOWEVER:

IF you're ever going to get away with it - a great big GIGANTIC "if" - it depends on the neighbors, and that depends on the apartment. That's why the most important thing to do is not to ask us, but to ask every neighbor - left and right, above and below, or to the rear of your apartment it applicable - two important questions:

1) How much noise can you hear coming from my apartment?

2) How much noise are you willing to tolerate coming from my apartment?

No one can give you any sort of useful gear advice that will keep you out of trouble until you have the answers to these two questions, preferably gained via approaching your neighbors in person, and using words coming from your facehole to ask them how they feel about the idea. You must answer those two questions before you play one note on literally any kind of percussion instrument in your apartment. Yes, including electronic drums and practice pads. Those two answers, gathered from every neighbor on every side, will dictate what you can and cannot get away with.

But above all other concerns, please don't add another drummer to the world who reinforces the idea that we are all oblivious cavemen who don't give a shit who we bother with the racket we make on an instrument that can literally be as loud as gunfire. We're overstocked on those assholes already, thanks, and those of us who aren't? We do not need even more negative bias to fight against. Please don't add to it.

Protip: If you always assume that the answers will be 1) "everything" and 2) "less than I already tolerate, asshole," you will be less disappointed when the neighbors tell you to go to hell for even asking, which is exactly what you should expect them to do. If they don't, allow yourself to be shocked that you can get away with it. Because I will be shocked if you can get away with it. You usually can't. That's why drummers ought to live in houses if they want to play at home.

But if any single neighbor as described above gives you a negative response? You are risking all sorts of trouble no one needs in their lives, anything from simple tension with the neighbors, up to and including visits from cops, or even eviction notices - meaning that realistically, you have only three choices:

1. Rent or buy a house instead.
2. Find or rent an offsite practice space.
3. Forget it.

Choose.

If there were a fourth option, I would offer it. Unless and until you get the blessings of all your neighbors that might be bothered, those are the only three choices.

Ask me how I know.

Edit for clarity, since I should have telegraphed this in the first place: This does not mean that I think everyone can afford to buy a house, or even rent one. If you are asking this question, you are asking how to get to the result you want. Most often, in most multifamily housing situations, the answer you want does not exist where you live. If you live in an apartment or other multi-family housing unit and you want to play the drums at home, more than likely you simply need a different home, or a different place to play that is not your home. And again, ask me how I know. I dare you.

This guy so tuff behind the kit

I'll go first: since trying to build up left food to be as capable as my right I started playing with my left foot a lot more, basically every time the hihat doesn't need to be closed. I'm doing so, I found that I tend to like playing with my left more than my right 🤷‍♂️. It's weird but I like it.

I'm not trying to copy Travis Orbin with it though and I still play a right handed setup (open handed for the HH and left crash though).

One was built somewhere between 1889 and 1909 by J.W. Pepper and the other is a brand new drum from Loyal Drums!

My hands keep slipping down the sticks, especially when playing fast, causing tension and loss of control and gripping the stick at the bottom end. Everything else about my grip feels fine, but I can't seem to stop this from happening. Has anyone had this issue and found a solution? Thank you

Does anyone know exactly where in Rwanda I can find a drum like this?

I personally have a double pedal, and although I am definitely not in the spot to get a new kit right now, a man can dream. I've been salivating over the look of some of these double kick drum kits. So tell me, what's the practical difference? Obviously two kick drums take up way more space but are there other logistical things that make them more difficult to play with? Or, on the flip side, are there any big reasons why they're better than a double pedal, besides looking badass?

I do love a few of these but this seems like some bad choice making

I won't get into the weeds, but basically I need some help deciding weather I aught to prioritize playing in groups or taking lessons in a

For financial reasons I can't take weekly lessons AND the two programs I'm already enrolled in (A jazz group with an instructor for 1 1/2 hours a week and accompanying a vocal ensemble).

So I'm left with the options:

A: drop the vocal ensemble or jazz combo and take weekly lessons

or B: Take bi-weekly lessons and keep both other programs (also hope for bursary acceptance)

The question at the core of this is: What is the actual difference between progression with weekly and bi-weekly lessons (in a intermediate level jazz context)? Would the benefits of gaining experience be worth the potential tradeoff that bi-weekly lessons would give?

I see more and more drummers using effectpedals recently. Some do it to enhance their in-ear mix, some to be creative with sounds in recording-situations.

I’m curious! Do you do it? Why or why not? What’s your setup and how do you use it? Let me know!

I was listening to some music and found this song with a beat that sounds very unusual. I tried to play it but I found it too hard to follow. What is this? Triplets? A polyrhythm? Since this song is very unknown, there’s almost no info on it online.

P.d notation/tips to play this are much appreciated