Drumming at Ten Months

Ten months of teaching myself to play the drums and couple of new things to share; some ideas that I have been messing about with. As previously noted, an electronic kit is great for a dilettante like me; all those voices suggest new styles to try (and also help keep things a little more interesting even when there isn't very much technique or talent on display...).

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• Yamaha
• DTXPLORER
• electronic
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[kw757]

Guitarist, not a drummer, so take my 2 cents with a grain of salt, but you look really tense. If you loosen up the body and just feel the music, it might help with your timing a bit. Keep up the good work!

[Jayembee1]

@kw757 Guitarist or not, you are absolutely right! :-) Yeah, I have been working on trying to be more relaxed - partly it's the camera, when I am not trying to record myself I am looser. But yes, it's very telling that when I am less tense my rolls get a lot better. Maybe I should do more yoga or something...

[Cr4nium13]

@Jayembee1 Just think that the camera isn't there and it's just you playing alone in a room, that's what I do when I'm playing infront of people just pretend they aren't there.. Of course you hear them singing and shouting but yeah.. lol

[Jayembee1]

@Cr4nium13 Heh, yes well. I am *such* a long way from being good enough to play in front of people... but if ever that day comes, I'll use your Zen Technique!  :-) And in the mean time, I'll try to not fret about the camera so much. Bottom line though is LOTS more practice for me, that will help the most!

[ChallisChallis]

i also play electric kit and have played around the same length of time as you, and can see that you have a good wrist technique there man!! keep the vids coming :P oh and the one thing i have learned in my time drumming is relax your shoulders, it really helps! :)

[Jayembee1]

@jaydoode15 So yes, for the 10" snare pad, you can use the existing mount to attach the pad to the rack. But if you get the 12" snare pad, which is what I did, you need to get yourself free-standing acoustic snare stand to mount it on. But they are pretty cheap.

[jaydoode15]

@Jayembee1 Also, can I use the original stock mount that comes with the xplorer or should I buy another mount just for the snare?

[Jayembee1]

@jaydoode15 Go for it! I think you will be pleased with the way the pad plays and the extras voice options you get!

[jaydoode15]

@Jayembee1 I was actually just thinking of using my real hi hats with a sound-off pad on it so it doesn't over power the kit. Thank you for letting me know, I am definitely going to pick up the Yamaha TP100, $150 isn't that bad at all!

[Jayembee1]

@Procyon58 Not directly, there are no more inputs. But, I think that you can add more cymbal pads than the three I have by using Y-cables. But you would have to lose multi-zone on one cymbal pad for each extra pad you add. So I think (you would need to do some reading to be sure), you could have two dual-zone cymbals, or four single zone cymbals. But then that really doesn't gain you anything with such a setup, at least voice-wise.