So in my last post, I talked about my airsoft gun, and that was just bragging. This time, I'm going to post something that can be of help to you guys.
I recently dropped more-money-than-I-should-have on this:
That's a Roland TD-9SX. The TD-9 is the module on the left, the "S" represents the pads, and the "X" means that they're mesh pads, instead of rubber.Except instead of those double bass pedals, I have Iron Cobras:
btw, if you do a google imgae search for "iron cobra", it suggestes "DW9000s". I rented those for a while when I was renting my acoustic drumset, and they sucked. In my opinion anyway. I just don't like the heavy beaters. I set the springs on my pedals to be as tight as possible, so when it swings back a heavy beater, the springs really give it momentum, so it's hard for my weak little legs to push it back into the bass drum.Anyway, the reason it's helpful for you guys is because it's electronic, so I can try and record stuff (though I've never tried). If some of you music makers want me to play something on the drums because you're too lazy to map it out yourself, let me know. It can output midi and seperate layers for each pad and stuff, but I can't afford the appropriate hardware for my computer to accept that. XDAlso, I moved out of my parents' house back in April. Their house is 5 minutes from my work…My new house is a 2 hour bus ride. Stupid? Yes.Freedom? Nice.Bills? I'm poor.Bottom Line? Gimme money to pay for the server.
Juju: I know that I only scratched the surface there. A decent percentage of theory doesn't fully apply (without getting a little abstract about it) to drumming, so I didn't want to delve too far into it. You don't really play chords, or scales, or need to transpose music from one key to another, and all that, with drums.
Plus, if you haven't already noticed, I talk out my ass about pretty much everything. I remembered NOTHING from my piano lessons/theory, and re-learnt everything I know when I picked up drumming a few years after I stopped with the piano. I didn't want to get in over my head with phrases I don't remember. (ie I have to look up the difference between a chromatic scale and a pentatonic scale. Then I felt dumb for not remembering the difference after looking it up. =P)Toast: I guess you'd kind of have to explore music theory to understand why it's so helpful. Like I sort of touched on before, it doesn't dictate that only one way is right - or that any way is really right. Spectre: Yeah, they're a lot of fun. They've got a lot of pre-defined drumset sounds, and you can load even more into it, but I don't really touch that. I set it up once, and don't tinker with it (except for changing volumes so I can follow along to a song I'm listening to, or something). The real fun (for me anyway) is in the ability to record you're playing, as well as playing with the metronome (it actually has a screen/grid that shows when you hit a note, and it moves in time with the metronome, so you can see when you're going off beat).There's another screen that shows you the volume of what you're hitting, so you can use that to practice keeping drum rolls steady, or grasping your accents, and what-not.Some of those added features sound extremely useful. I'm impressed! Maybe more people will take up drumming as a result.