New answers tagged drums
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Here are some Key points about Coated Drumhead vs Clear Drumhead:
Coated Drum head:
Coated heads are warmer in tone
Easier to tune
More controlled than Clear
Produces more bounce when hit by the stick
Muted and more focused
Clear Drum head:
The tones are a bit higher in pitch
Produce brighter and less controlled sound
More attacks than coated
Louder ...
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Yes, that should help, although the main reason for keeping the humidity and temperature the same for a piano is to help keep it in tune.
Nonetheless, keeping drum sets in a stable environment is helpful in other ways.
This article here addresses this, and some other things you can do to maintain a drum set.
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It really depends on the style of music. If you're playing military or orchestral music, with lots of rolls, you'll probably find a wooden stick rebounds better from the snare drum, making it easier to play.
On the other hand, because wood has a grain, wooden tips give you a slightly different sound depending on the rotation of the stick around its long ...
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It could be a problem of your sitting position and your body balance. If you're sitting too low or unbalanced on the stool, you might get problems because you need one leg to stabilize yourself while playing with the other one.
Try practicing at very slow tempos first, as slow as you need to go to be able to play it. Think of quarters and eighth and try ...
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It is actually just practice but you need some consciousness while doing it. First of all it's a very very common problem so no need to alienate yourself.
Second, the problem is how you approach playing. You are trying to replay the, I would casually say, the muscle memory recording. Probably you had some nice time or you thought it sounds cool or you have ...
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If I understand right, you say the pads and kick pedal of the electric kit are making too much acoustic noise. You could try to improve their isolation from the floor (which is probably responsible for transmitting most of the noise to your neighbours).
It is apparently possible to build a simple drum riser out of plywood sheets and buckets: see here for ...
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I have published a book of the first 8700 rhythm families and some of their relationships. This includes every rhythmic pattern up to (and including) 16 beats long. Probably too much information for your use, but the first 60 rhythm families (up to and including 8 beats long) feature in my first book of polyrhythms 'The Ho Ho Chi Rhythm Method'. I was ...
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Practicing on pillows being wrong or bad for many obvious reasons is not correct. You can still practice on pillows and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it if you don't confuse it with the actual drumming. Just Google to see more elaborate pros/cons before you actually start building it. There are tons of pages that discuss this contrary to the other ...
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Here are some thoughts:
I would absolutely avoid using pillows / towels as a practice set for many obvious reasons.
Since you have an electronic kit, noise should not be an issue - you can either turn the volume way down, or plug in the kit to headphones and hear yourself that way through analog.
You could purchase practice pads to go over your kit drums ...
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