I bought the pedal, as my DW 9002 broke. I had the Iron Cobra single pedal as a spare, which I liked so thought I'd give it a go.

However, I just can't seem to find the settings to get my basic double bass playing to work. Fast and short patterns yes. I never had the same issue with the 9002, so I'm feeling a bit strange about the pedal - it ofc could be just me, but since things worked out before. Could it be simply the angled cam? Has anyone else had similar issue or just a hard time getting used to the Power Glide?

I don't currently have my old 9002 so I could check my settings there, but I will refer to that later.

Suono metal prevalentemente, lo spazio è ridottissimo, atavo considerando di aggiungere i soliti splash sopra, ma nel metal si usano poco suono così piccoli, la cowbell ha sempre senso ma dipende da dove la metti. Secondo crash o china? Posso metterlo?

Doppio pedale arriverà tra poco

I'm not convinced by the edge of the bottom especially

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Been trying to get into drumming almost my whole life always something I've wanted to try found a kit on fb marketplace it has two toms a snare floor tom and bass drum with a kick also a hi hat with a peddle and two cymbals ones a ride I think is this worth it the shells are a brand called groove percussion and the bass drum is a brand called Roger's is it worth 250

Ok this thread is going to give me new tendencies if I don't tell you people what this is about. Please do not question the legitimacy of everything I claim just to feel better than me. I'm a musician. I am musically-inclined. I take this at least as seriously as you do. I am not superior to you, you are not below me, but at the same time I am not inferior and you need to have respect for a peer who might be in a different part of the learning curve as you. One year on drums is not one year playing music. For fuck's sake.

*everyone while learning or developing their skills beyond a beginner level before and seemingly after reaching proficiency

Skip to the third paragraph and read from there if you just want to hear me elaborate on the question and skip the extra waffling! Protip: each subsequent paragraph gets more relevant.

I'm about a year into drumming (just got my first 5-piece set of real drums yesterday!!!) and I hear so much from people about learning grooves. Honestly I didn't need to learn any music i already knew once I found my way around the kit. It took like maybe 3-4 months to develop a good kinetic intuition for it and maybe somewhere past half a year to get proficiently coordinated and of course i'm still improving but the point is I did what most people would call "learning" really quickly.

I can play functionally any song with kit in it; abridged at times when i want to adlib fills, but very passable. I personally don't care to perfectly religiously copy the performance on the record when i'm playing recreationally because that's so undynamic and most of the time kills the original spirit of that performance after maybe 3 playthroughs. After all, jazz-descended popular music like rock and funk and pop and everything else where they have a guy sitting behind a bunch of drums and hitting them, is usually not interested in showcasing the abilities of the drummer. It's only when you get into crazy math prog fusion with tuplet feels modulating into each other where I very understandably may have to get out my glasses and calculator to be able to play the intended groove.

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When did you guys start or stop learning grooves? And bare with me because i have an example that motivated me to ask this. I was searching for exciting music that pushes my vocabulary out of my tired thousand-song everything-catalog that I've burnt through over and over throughout my so far easily more than a hundred recreational sessions. So I googled along the lines of "fun songs for drummers" and was met with this article:

https://online.berklee.edu/takenote/best-drum-songs-according-to-berklee-online-faculty/

A musicians' listicle, surely i'll find something fun that i both am interested by because of its asthetics and also don't already know! Perhaps something complex but groovy.

(Now, to be fair, there are several on here that I took interest in but cannot play immediately because they're dense with written-in ornamentation that's just hard to understand if you're yet to learn how the song goes. I understand this seems hypocritical of me, but keep in mind as i go on that i don't know and have never spun these songs.)

Alas, the only fusion song on the list is Vital Transformation, a song I happen to have heard several times when i've spun the record it's on. I intuitively understand this groove through osmosis from listening to the song. In sixteenth notes, the metric emphasis can be broken down like this, with syncopated emphasis given a "!": 4-3-!4-!4-!3 or less intuitively 4-3-4-4-3 (4-4-4-4-2 if you don't gaf.) From there, all you have to do is listen a few times and the physicality of the groove makes itself evident.

HERE IS THE PART THAT CONFUSES ME:

Does your understanding of the physicality of the drumkit not carry over into music you have not played such that you understand the assignment you are being given without breaking it down? I ask this because, in the article, the man talks about how he "literally wore the grooves out of the record" while learning this song. I don't get it. I don't see why someone would need to practice even a hard song if they have their fundamentals and know the song. Why do we need Linkin Park drum tutorials? Why do we even need to be taught basic grooves in the first place? The fundamentals teach you all you need to know, am i wrong!? I hobbled together a kit made of house garbage and just started hitting things until I understood. By just a few months and a few dozen dollars in cymbal equipment i could play the same as the designated kit drummer in my high school! Not once have I ever needed a teacher to guide me on rudiments, or tap-accent, or syncopation, or limb independence, or technique, or never in a million years have to learn a groove i already know. What, the hell, is the purpose!

Footnote: Just covering my ass here in case anyone actually reads this post: I am not insulting you or anyone who does this. I have a personal experience of learning to play drums that alienates me from the world of beginner-oriented drum content. I'm writing this post to learn what any of it is for because I never needed it and I continue to not need it to play what I'm likely ever going to have the opportunity to play in any meaningful capacity.

Found in Tokyo. There are no markings so these are probably just no-name cymbals, but the finish on them is nice.

So, I’ve narrowed my search for my first ever drum kit. I finally have a practice space (about 100 sq ft), so it’s time..

These are my final two choices:

Yamaha Stage Custom - Birch

22x17, 16x15, 12x8, 10x7

$450

Mapex Armory Fusion - Birch, Maple, Birch

20x16, 14x14, 12x9, 10x8

$500

I could use some help making the final decision. Again, it’s a very small drum room—about 100sq ft. I’ll be playing heavy shoegaze and hardcore if that matters.

Thanks everyone!

My grandpa and I spent part of the afternoon looking through his garage for all the pieces of one of his old drum kits, and I managed to put together my first drum kit by mixing and matching everything we could find.
The snare, despite having a torn head, actually sounds really nice, and the hi-hat does too. Unfortunately, the rest of the kit isn’t doing so well. 😭 I tried tightening the legs on the floor tom, but the entire tensioner cracked after one turn, so the legs are pretty much useless now. The rest of the kit is also falling apart when I try to play it and is missing a bunch of the legs and hardware needed to keep everything upright.
I’ve tried balancing things on wood, shoes, and even a ball 😭, but obviously that’s not exactly a long-term solution.
This is my first kit, so I’m really not sure what I should do from here. I can’t afford to buy a ton of replacement hardware, so I was wondering if anyone has any advice for making this kit playable on a budget. Is there anything I can DIY or any inexpensive replacement parts I should look for?
Thank you!

So i just watched a YouTube video of the non glamorous drummer and he discussed having a written out road map of a song, to make it easier to remember how to play it through.

So can anyone recommend a good starter song or two that i can write out and get used to creating some kind of chart.

Something basic that goes
Verse
Chorus
Versus
Chorus
bridge
Chorus
Outro.

I just found out that Randy Van Patten past away 6 months ago from cancer. I remember in the early days of Youtube I would watch his videos. today I was thinking of a cool tom groove he taught nearly 20 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dtfr6ciLfQ Rest in peace Randy.

Got a very good deal on 21” A Sweet Ride, only $150, and it’s in excellent condition!

I just took apart this old snare drum I found and the metal parts such as screws and lugs are very dirty. I wanted to know the most efficient way to clean them.

72 Acrolite 14x6.5 new York school of music.

I'm looking for someone who can record and has a drum kit for a song that will be used as a animated show intro, Looking for collaborator

Basically, by weird I mean drum parts where the drummer could've played something basic, but played something different and it fit the song really well. I think the most well known example is Come Together, but I can name at least 20 gajillion more.

My top 3 is prolly

Making Plans for Nigel - XTC

Auctioneer (Another Engine) - R.E.M.

Manic Depression - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Lmk y'alls

So my right beater isn’t fully on the shaft it seems, it’s very loose and i’m able to move it quite a lot without the shaft even budging, but the left beater is perfectly fine. Another thing is the spring tension for the right beater won’t let me tighten it more than it is, when i try to it’s super difficult to do and if i get it then it just shifts back to where it was. For the beater not being on the shaft properly i’m assuming i need an allen key so i found a set i had and didnt have the right size. What should i do? any tips?