I Got a Drum Kit!!

[43% burnt]

Well, it's not really mine...but my sister needed a place to store hers so I'm setting them up in my basement!

I love drums. I'm not too good at playing them, but hopefully that will change. Anyway, I'm really psyched at the opportunity to learn a new instrument.

I plan on taking a few lessons to get started. I want to learn properly, since I know how hard it is to unlearn bad habits.

So, does anyone have any good tips for a beginner?

Oh yea...Is there a "TalkDrums"???

[matt bass]

Pearls drummers forum is usually a good place to hang out.

Matt

[velvetkevorkian]

Real drummers can't type

[dave_p]

remo drum talk is pretty good.
the pearl forums are good too.
vic firth web site has a lot of good free information and tutorials as well as free video lessons.

i was picking up a bass i had some fretwork done on last may, and while waiting i was looking at a drumset and decided i wanted one. i wound up buying a kit(a different one). ive been at it for almost a year. its a lot of fun and having experience in bands as a bass player definately has helped my progression on drums. i now play in a band as a drummer, and the bass player was a drummer in another band i was in years ago. so while we primarily fill our reversed roles, we do switch off for songs that require the benefit of our experience in our traditional roles. its pretty cool to be able to do both.

[43% burnt]

Thanks guys. I've been hanging out at the Vic Firth site a lot lately. There's a bunch of good videos on there.

[Deacon_Blues]

I also love to play drums... But I have no equipment and live in an apartment so if I got a set, it would have to be electric drums. They sound quite good nowadays, but the feel is different from acoustic ones... If I got a home studio, it would definitely be on my wish list.

[AxtoOx]

I'm learning the drums right now also. It's a lot of fun, having a tough time getting my feet to do what I want, but I'm getting better everyday.
When I bought my daughters set, I got all my info from the Pearl site. Those people were great, and had a good time putting together a set with me.
Now I went and got my own. Could I settle for a beginner set after all this expensive Bass and Guitar gear? Nooooo. He has to go out and get a dw right off the bat. Oh well, if it doesn't work out, resale is real good on them.

[Bard2dbone]

I have some Congas and Bongos that I bought about a million years ago to be abke to show my drummer parts taht I had in my head. I'd say "Okay, this drum is the snare,.this one is the bass, and that one is the hi-hat. Play something like this..." And then I would beat out the pattern I wanted him to start with. Once he had that down, he could embellish it however he felt like so long as it fit with the orifinal groove.

Nowadays, those Congas and Bongos take up a corner in the storeroom that is supposed to be my music room. I'd like to have a trapset to learn drums on or have it there to record drum parts, but I don't have the room.

I kind of considered doing what one drummer I worked with a few times in the '80's did. He had a whole kit that would fit in his trunk.

You know how most of the time that you see Roto-Toms, it'll be the three smallest ones on one rail? He had the next two bigger ones on one rail and an even bigger one on another short rail. With those he had a regular snare and cymbals and a kick-drum trigger. That was his whole 'five-piece' kit. It was the smallest drumset I'ce seen while being transported. But it didn't take up that much less space than normal while being played.

[Bassbarbie]

We had a practice kit for years which I ignored. One day I sat down and started working through Teach Yourself Rock Drumming and I was hooked!
After a while I bought a 2nd hand kit. Mostly my 10yr old son plays it now though.

I love the challenge of the coordination - very similar to playing bass and singing I reckon. It fascinates me how you practice, and one minute you can't do it - then you can - how clever our brains are!!
Not that I'm very accomplished of course!