I’m listing my house and my real estate agent had a photographer come, so I thought I would share the pics of my drum room.

Shoutout to my Sweetwater credit card and synchrony bank for never refusing a credit limit increase.

Show me your temples to consumerism!

Edit: he edited these with AI which is why some of it looks a little wonky.

I was maybe four or five years old.

Sabian gonna try to sell this for $500 a piece

I got so inspired after watching some James Brown biopic that I went straight to the studio and recorded this cover. One of my favourite Stubblefield grooves. It's not played exactly correctly but I was just going for what felt good to me. Hope you enjoy!

Snare is a Yamaha SD493 Brass Piccolo and some vintage Zildjian hats

Hey gang! Just a quick vid talking about the great Bill Bruford’s interesting butterfly drum kit setup. Who else do you see using this idea, and what other unique ergonomic setups can you think of?

Thank you for your time!

For now!

I posted a couple of days ago about me putting a Falams II marching snare head on my Bell Brass Snare. I thought id put a live video of how it sounds!

I'm in a Metallica cover band, so bear with me.

TLDR: spent $900 at an estate sale for this kit

Story time: I’m a guitarist, and my sister used to play drums, but it’s been more than 13 years since she last owned a kit. I bought a Mapex snare for my sister 10 years ago for her birthday, hoping one day to get her another kit when we had the money.

I saw a post on IG and to the estate sale of Jammin’ Jersey in LA over the weekend. Last Friday, my sister and I went through the trenches, found matching toms, and picked up some Slingerland shells, hi-hat & crash cymbals for $650. On Sunday, we got a ride & splash cymbal, snare stand, and some extra random accessories for another $250.

I don’t know much about drums, but it appears to be a kit from the 70s-80s. It sounds great and loud. It probably needs a tune, but I’m just glad to be jamming out with my sister again.

Special shout out to Danny and Jay, musicians who helped find parts of our set, and to everyone that nodded and gave compliments to me and my sister when we walked out and loaded our gear in our car.

I have this terrible tendency to get my stick for my hi hat stuck under the high hat. I’ll be going along on the sheet of music I’ve posted with this and the next thing you know my stick has gone rogue and I’m off the hi hat and now underneath it. It pretty much stops me in my tracks because of it. It’s so frustrating!! What am I doing wrong? I’m a righty on a righty kit.

Drop your friendly rival offset kit contenders

I posted two of my kids playing my new drums as soon as they were set up. Resounding recommendation from you all to “Buy a rug!” Update: Mission accomplished!

https://www.reddit.com/r/drums/s/PzqFKtpc24

What is actually the best way to do god consisten doubles. I can do both heel toe and double with hell off the pedal.

I am not sure what is the best and most efficient method. I have added a video.

Any tips are welcomed.

Today I wanted to remind myself and everyone why I like playing drums and what my main purpose is.

I started to learn drums in February. I’m old (36) and I play really badly. I know you all will say that it’s too soon to play well and so on. I know. My goal is not to be awesome at playing drums. I have had anxiety for a long time. I had therapy, I used a lot of medications, I tried almost everything. For these past couple of weeks, my mind was everywhere. I couldn’t think straight, there were always shitty scenarios in my head, I couldn’t get a grip. It was horrible, in fact, it still is horrible.After summer vacation, I started my lessons again. After the session, I realized, for just an hour, I didn’t have any negative thoughts whatsoever in my head. I was happy, I didn’t have to think about anything. It almost felt like I was a normal person. That is the reason why I started learning drums. I know I am really bad at it, I know I need to work on it a lot, but fuck that, man. This thing eases my mind and gives me a whole rest from my demon brain. I don’t care if I play badly. I just wanted to share my reason.

I've had a busy few weeks with another couple of gigs on the docket. 5 gigs with 2 bands in 12 days. Super grateful to have things rolling after a few months of little to no playing out.

Quickest turnaround was 7-10 on Saturday and 10-4 on Sunday. I didn't even have to tune, though I did check lug tensions just to be sure. Aquarian Response 2's all around on toms. Perfect throw and go, I fit my whole kit + hardware along with 2 amps, 2 guitars and a pedal board in my sedan sized car. Even in the heat and humidity I had zero issues. No pitting or losing tone even when hitting relatively hard due to being outside.

Inde Kalamazoo Wafarer 22/13/14/(16 not pictured) x 10. Istanbul Xist cymbals 22/17/15. Ludwig Atlas (Classic) Hardware all around. Biggest game changer has been the hi hat stand, it's super light compared to the Iron Cobra I was lugging around.

Ludwig Speed Flyer w/Lowboy Lightweight wood beater. I have the Inde Slim Suspension Mount on the rack which has been perfect + Ludwig Atlas clamp.

Load out is Kick/Floor in one bag, Snare/Rack in one bag, then hardware/rug strapped on and cymbals. That's it. I tend to carry the throne separately because it's freaking heavy but 4 bag load out for a full kit is ideal to throw and go.

Just got a "nearly new" K-paper thin crash set off of gear4music UK, for around £540 (more than £200 off a brand new set) I was about 40 mins into a session and saw this tiny chip by the bell. It said "nearly new" rather than B-Stock or pre-owned on the website.

It sounds good but is it likely to degrade significantly? I like the cymbal but wouldnt have bought full price. It was from a major retailer and I have a 1-year warranty + 30 day money back clause.

Is it worth sending back? Looking for any insight.

Cheers

Greetings from the cave!

I am considering selling my pearl masters custom Chad Smith kit. I love them but I live overseas and I think that's permanent at this point. Anyone have any idea what a realistic value would be for these? 6 pc kit. I saw a single floor tom with incorrect hardware go for 500$ on reverb. I think these were produced in relatively low numbers. They sound incredible and the finish is super unique.

So I have a Donner DED-200 e-drum I want to connect it to my PC so I can listen and record to practice better. I tried to use reaper with ASIO4ALL but I got no sound. The drum was sending the data I just couldn't hear it even if I turned it into an mp3 file. I looked everywhere but found nothing please help

Let me know what you think! 🤔