first drum set?

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so im looking to start adding real drums in my songs opposed to keyboard drums (haha i was gettin good too)

so im thinkin of only gettin like a snare a bass drum and a hi hat.

shoot, 3 piece sets rule right?

so any suggestions? i dont really wanna spend much money

and also any suggestions on how to learn how to really drum?

thanks.
 
You're probally going to get insanely bored with just a kick a snare and hi-hats..... There's only so much you can do with that.

You can always find a decent used tama set somewhere.... I have an old tama swingstar set that I paid about 250 for second hand. Thoose drums were a lot better than my first kit.

I would stay away from anything "to cheap to be true"..... Theese drums will always sound bad, and you'd be much better off sinking the same amount of money into a used kit that might have some "battle scars".

Tama and Pacific (if dw was fender, pacific would be squire) would be a good place to start..... And sabian b8 pros are a good cymbol for the money. All my cymbols are zildjians, except for my hi-hats, which are b8s. They sound decent enough to gig with. (I'd rather have something else, but it could be a lot worse).

I'd recomend either starting out on just snare and learning your basic "paradiddles" and that sort of stuff.....

Or just going for it and getting a kit that has a bass drum, a snare, a tom, and a floor tom, and then start looking for a cymbol pack that has a ride, hi-hats, and a crash.....

With that you'd be well on your way....

As far as learning how to play drums, that's a hard thing to teach somebody. It's mainly "feel"..... listen to your favorite song and try to play along.

If you're favorite band is slipknot or tool something you might need to go out and buy an ac/dc cd and try to play along with that cd instead..... Or weezer, or just something you think you could keep up with you know....

When I first started learning how to drum (about 10 years ago) my poor mom had to listen to me attempt to drum along to "lithium" by nirvana atleast 1,000 time. LOL :D :D :D

Alright man I hope this helps.
 
JazzMasterWil said:
You're probally going to get insanely bored with just a kick a snare and hi-hats..... There's only so much you can do with that.

You can always find a decent used tama set somewhere.... I have an old tama swingstar set that I paid about 250 for second hand. Thoose drums were a lot better than my first kit.

I would stay away from anything "to cheap to be true"..... Theese drums will always sound bad, and you'd be much better off sinking the same amount of money into a used kit that might have some "battle scars".

Tama and Pacific (if dw was fender, pacific would be squire) would be a good place to start..... And sabian b8 pros are a good cymbol for the money. All my cymbols are zildjians, except for my hi-hats, which are b8s. They sound decent enough to gig with. (I'd rather have something else, but it could be a lot worse).

I'd recomend either starting out on just snare and learning your basic "paradiddles" and that sort of stuff.....

Or just going for it and getting a kit that has a bass drum, a snare, a tom, and a floor tom, and then start looking for a cymbol pack that has a ride, hi-hats, and a crash.....

With that you'd be well on your way....

As far as learning how to play drums, that's a hard thing to teach somebody. It's mainly "feel"..... listen to your favorite song and try to play along.

If you're favorite band is slipknot or tool something you might need to go out and buy an ac/dc cd and try to play along with that cd instead..... Or weezer, or just something you think you could keep up with you know....

When I first started learning how to drum (about 10 years ago) my poor mom had to listen to me attempt to drum along to "lithium" by nirvana atleast 1,000 time. LOL :D :D :D

Alright man I hope this helps.
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I like tama, and the rockstars are the best for the price.
 
My first set was a nice little Tama Stagestar kit. Small, affordable, and......small. They actually sounded pretty good for their price range. Of course, that's with Genera heads and Ring dampeners and proper tuning. You can find a used set for pretty cheap. Just watch Ebay!
 
A 16" x 10" bass drum is a smaller than your average floor tom......

For 220 bucks you can easily find a full sized used kit that would be a lot better than that..... I mean if that's what you really want to do, then I can't stop you. But I think you'd be much happier with a full sized kit....

And if for some reason you don't take to the drums (so people just can't learn the drums, it's a cold hard fact..... even some guitarist and bassist just can never get the feel for playing drums) the full sized kit would hold it value much better than a kids sized set.

Just my two cents. :D
 
good call masta j,

drums look like a lot of fun, but maybe i should just keep to keyboard drums.

it was nice dreaming for awile though!

i remember seeing this one band that had a really long bass drum but it was super small and he ripped on that thing.
 
I've seen several orange county bass drums like that, just small long little buggers. And you're right they can sound good.

I even liked that hip-pig kit (or whatever it was called) when it first came out. It was very small, but it would of made a killer jazz kit, or a really great kit to take to band practice. I think it was advertised as being able to fit in the front of a volkswagon bug, or something like that.

But anyways man, I didn't mean to shoot you down. The drums are a great intrument to play and you can almost always find a gig as a drummer.....

That's the primary reason I learned how to play drums..... I came from a small town and we had a load of awesome guitars and only 3 or 4 drummers. So it was about impossible to get in a band unless you were just SICK on guitar, but it was really easy to get in a band (or start a band) as a drummer.

Plus drums are just fun to play man.... You get to sit on your ass the whole time your at band practice and at gigs, and there's all sorts of different things you can do to your kit..... There's only so much modifying and adding stuff onto guitars that you can do....... With your kit you've got different pedals, sticks, stands, cymbols, toms, roto-toms, octabons, snares, a gong... you know just whatever your style is. (Although my kit is nowhere near that complicated).

Don't let the price scare you off man. A lot of people don't start playing drums for this reason.... It decent new guitar might cost 250, whereas a decnet new kit with decent cymbols will probally end up in the 600+ range.....

That's why you've got to keep looking around for used ones. I bet a few kids around town will get new kits for christmas and you might be able to snatch up one of their "old" kits for cheap.
 
oh_the_blood said:
good call masta j,

drums look like a lot of fun, but maybe i should just keep to keyboard drums.

it was nice dreaming for awile though!

i remember seeing this one band that had a really long bass drum but it was super small and he ripped on that thing.
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Don't give up so easily. It'll be easier and probably cheaper to find a used full kit than it'll be to find just a bass/snare/hi-hat. Buying drums piece by piece gets very expensive, and who sells bass drums, anyway? If you really only want a bass/snare/hi-hat you can always take the extra pieces to a thrift store and get yourself a tax deduction.
 
so do you think a no on the mini kit?

i figure i can just like change the cymbols out and tune it nice n easy
and put a pillow in the bass drum or whatever you crazy drummers do.

good call guys, might as well learn as many instruments as i can, right?
 
There's nothing wrong with buying a travel sized kit. Body there's a huge difference between a professional travel kit and a kids drums set. Check out my post on travel kits if you want to see a few decent smaller kits.

But if I was you, I'd just start going to pawnshop and stuff like that. If you really have no luck finding a kit, I could sell you my back up kit (because I'm about to buy a third kit and really don't need 3 kits). They're Tama Swingstars, I won't make this post an add but you can p.m. me if you're interested.
 
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