"Max Planck researchers discover the statistical laws governing rhythmic fluctuations in human musical performances"

Was watching one of my favorite shows "sounds like a drum" about cleaning (unfortunately only on youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDOwSD64REk

One drummer I know treats her cymbals like they where fine china, she have a pair of white gloves she uses when handling cymbals, I never bothered cleaning my cymbals before, other than a quick dust-off, and I used my hands to mute the cymbals when I tried her kit... I was NOT popular :-/

How do you choke cymbals without using hands?
Do you clean your cymbals, and if so, what do you use?

I heard that a couple of drops citrus in water cleans fingerprints and wanted to try it, it looks great but I'd rather spend my time making music.

EDIT: The bottom one is not cleaned, top one is cleaned by applying a thin layer, letting is sit 2min and polish clean with cotton.

I don't remember where I heard it, but someone once suggested using a soft mallet for tuning drums (to avoid the sound of the stick), so I made this from a small styrofoam ball, a stick and a piece of an old sweater.

It really does make the tone of the drum stand out, and absolutely helped me with my tuning.

Do you have any tricks when it comes to tuning?

Made this acoustic panel to dampen some of the reflections bouncing of the wall behind the kit, turned out quite nice.

It's basically just four boards screwed together, and cloth stapled on.
I didn't fill it yet, but I'm planning to use some old pieces of cloth/foam or whatever I can find.

She was the one who finally convinced me to practice my rudiments :-)

Who needs training equipment when you have a drumkit :-)

I just couldn't help myself, bought a used set of no-name octobans (6” x 12 and 6” x 14), time to play some Winery Dogs :-)

Been working on a camera setup for an online-band, thought I'd throw in a pedal-cam just for fun.
I don't want to touch my stationary pc that I use to record audio, after all my soundcard sits on a USB-port and I'm worried about latency, so I use my laptop with OBS-Studio to record the video, The laptop is mounted on a snare-stand, surprisingly steady.

The mic on my webcam is barely good enough to record my "silentstroke" kit, and it starts clipping if I hit the snare a bit too hard, so if I want to record with a decent sound, I have to mic it up, mix it and send the mixed-signal to my laptop. This is recorded with no eq, I just set base-levels and panned out the overhead:

https://youtu.be/HCkawShp0B0
https://peertube.wtf/w/38DeeKEW9p3tnmopJrNCwn

I know Youtube isn't the greatest place in the world, but I'm having trouble finding a good alternative, seams like most of the Peertube sites no longer take new members.

I have some decent audio-recording equipment, and I feel like I got that part covered (for now at least), but I don't really have any experience recording video, so I'm open for suggestions to improve my setup. I know the cameras aren't super high quality, but I didn't want to throw too many money after this, and the Logitech BRIO 100 seamed adequate, thou was surprised how poor the quality was compared to the camera on my relatively cheap Android phone.

What do you use to record drums videos?

Do you mix/edit after, or just record it all live? I can clearly see the advantage of mixing after recording, mostly because it's a pain to make a good mix on your kit while sitting behind it, that have been my experience at least.

btw. I wasted a lot of time getting two cameras to work at the same time, turns out you can't run two USB-cameras on the same USB-hub.

TLDR: How do you record videos?

Edit: added peertube.wtf link

I bought a low-cost e-kit a couple of years ago and was surprised at the simplicity of the individual drums. The trigger itself is just a piezo that you can buy in most electronic-stores for about 1€, and if you are relatively comfortable with a soldering-iron, it's quite easy to connect to a jack-connector to it, and you'll have a drum-trigger, not very practical thou, the hard part is building something that can hold it steady against a drum/mesh-head.

I tried building my own trigger-mounts for mounting inside the drums, but working with metal or wood is absolutely not one of my strong sides.

A more simple approach is to make something like Roland's BT-1 Bar Trigger Pad.
It's just a block of rubber with a piezo attached, and a mount with a female jack, I used double-sided adhesive tape to glue the rubber, piezo and foam together and to the board.

This works on all the modules I have tried from Roland, Alesis and Millenium, and I'm sure that someone with more experience in metal/wood-work can make these themself for a fraction of the cost, and most likely a bit more steady than mine.

Now you just need a drum-module to turn the piezo-signal into MIDI and/or sound, any module will do if you just need the MIDI signal to control a sampler, or some another hardware like a CMX light or even a DAW.

I remember seeing somewhere that it's possible to buy piezos with a presoldered female jack, if you want to avoid soldering completely.

You could even build a drum-module yourself using a microcontroller like arduino. It's a bit more complicated, but if anyone is interested, I would love to make a howto for a Arduino-based MIDI-only drum-module.

Drumgizmo

My favorite open-source drum-sampler, I use it mainly inside Ardour but I have also used it for e-drums.
It's not fancy to look at, but it has relatively low resource demand, and can even be run on a headless setup.
The last time I was recording in a studio, I asked the tech to record some single-strokes of my kit, I've used those samples to recreate my own kit in Drumgizmo.
Building your own drum-kit can be a bit time-consuming, but there are a couple of great free kits to download on their site if you don't have your own samples.

I used it on this track:
moster

Moster is a danish word meaning something like "mom's sister", I wrote this when I learned that my sister just had a kid.

I used ffmpeg to generate the video from the audio-file, using this one line in the terminal:
ffmpeg -i moster.wav -filter_complex "[0:a]showspectrum=s=hd1080[v]" -map "[v]" -map 0:a -c:v libx264 -c:a copy spectrum.mkv

I bought one of these kids-drumkit with the intent of building a little cafe-drumkit. 16" bas-drum, 10" snare, 8" tom and a totally trashed cymbal for 13,5€ :-)

I was lucky to have most of the things I needed, but if I had to buy all the parts separately, I might as well have bought a used cafe-drumkit, the bass-drum-riser alone cost 20€.

I also added a 12" tom to use as floor-tom (attached to the cymbal stand), a grown-up bd-pedal, hi-hat/cymbal stands, changed the plastic heads with some old heads I had and lastly added the hi-hat and cymbal.

I did get a nice little kit out of it thou, a kit that's small enough to be transported on public transport, and the sound is not bad, might even ad the little "popcorn" snare to my regular setup.

I'll mic it up one of these days and post a small recording.

Hi all

My name is wildflower, well at least here it is.

I contacted MicrosoftSam (the mod of c/drums), regarding a request made some time ago for a moderator, which explains why I now have a [mod] tag next to my name.

As my previous posts might indicate, I love to tinker, and have some fun project in the works that I'm looking forward to sharing.

I thought about having a "Welcome to c/drums" sticky. I know some drummers prefer to literally sit in the back, but we all like to make noise, so perhaps we could even use the same sticky for people to introduce themself, since the current introduction thread is kind'a buried.

Would also be nice to have some basic info for beginners and relevant links.
I know that everyone can google things on their own, but sometimes a website avoids publicity, and sometimes things are just hard to find, I'm sure many of you have useful resources that are worth sharing, perhaps some nice rudiments?

If anyone else have ideas on how to make this place even better, please let me know in the comments or a pm.

Sorry if I post a bit much, I just really want to see this place grow, and you know what they say, "be the drumming post that you want to see in c/drums", or something like that :-)

Wanted one of these for a long time, but they are a bit pricy, so I made one out of an old e-drum rack I bought used for about 30€, even had enough pipes and clamps to make two of them.
On my one kit I have it attached to the hihat-stand, on another kit I have it attached to a cymbal-stand.

Can't imagine I'll ever be going back to the old wobbly tripod snare-stands, specially when using a double BD-pedal or dual bass-drums.

If you can't find an old drum-rack to build one from, the parts themself can be bought at Thomann for about 100€, still cheaper than buying a complete rack (those I could find cost almost 300€).

https://www.thomann.dk/gibraltar_sc_gpr36_single_pipe_rack_36.htm
Cut up in three pieces, or buy 3 pieces that match if you don't have a saw

https://www.thomann.dk/millenium_detc_01_pipe_to_pipe_clamp.htm
you'll need two of these to connect the three pieces of pipe

https://www.thomann.dk/gibraltar_scgrsmc.htm
feet

https://www.thomann.dk/gibraltar_scrba_rohraufsatz.htm
this is where you place the basket from your existing snare-stand

https://www.thomann.dk/millenium_rack_clamp_black.htm
for mounting it all on another stand

Inspired by a show my parents took me to when I was about 8 (Where Tom McEwan gave an amazing drum solo), I started banging on everything that would make a sound, pillows, pots and pans, I even made my own drum-pedal out of an old rocking-chair.

Had my first drum-kit when I was 10 (christmas late 70'), a banged up old Ludwig that my whole family got together to buy (20" BD 16" Floor and a 14x5,5" no-name Snare"), loved the sound, but I hated the old hardware so when I finally had enough money to buy a new kit, I bought a basic 5-piece Tama Swingstar that I used to play in several bands and held on to for many years, I've had many other kit, but this one always had a special place in my heart.

In the late 90' I unfortunately had to sell all of my gear, and for may years, I didn't really get to play drums, besides a cheap electronic kit that I never really got comfortable with, so in 2022 when I saw my Swingstar kit used for about 160 Euro, I just had to buy it. I know it might not the most impressive kit, but playing it brought back a lot of memories, and it rebooted my love for drums. Today I use it daily with Remo silentstroke and Zildjian L80, great for low level jamming and exercise.

I did switch the metal-snare out with one in wood, and use either a Yamaha Stage Custom or a Tama Royalstar.

I also have a vintage Asama kit I got for helping a friend out with some amps, it's the "house kit", setup with Evans G2 on snare and toms and EMAD on the bass-drum, always ready to roll. The latest addition the the family, is a used Gretsch Catalina Maple (22x16 BD 10,12,13,14 Toms) that I hope to one day take on the road. The Gretsch kit is perhaps the best quality kit I own, but I still prefer to play my old Swingstar.

TLDR: I just love my Tama Swingstar :-)

I've used the site more than once when trying to find model/year of older gear, and it's fun to just explore

Needed a quick internal mount for my bassdrum and came up with this beauty that fits perfectly in the tom-holder :-)

It's not for any serious recording, I just want to record my progress and play around with triggering samples in Ardour

Here's my DIY substitute for Puresound Custom Pro type snare wire strap:

Lanyard around a cut-up metal straw, and zip ties thru the straw to lock them in place.

Holds up well!

Is there something like ultimate-guitar but for drums? Where do you get free sheet-music for a beginner drummer to explore and learn from?

Has anyone here tot any experience with the WTS drums? I'm in the market for a new set of shells and although I'm usually a TAMA guy, these shells look like a blast to play around with. The Sweetwater demo and Sounds Like A Drum coverage on YouTube look and sound promising.

Hi all, I'm trying to get into drumming, but a problem I've run into in the past is that most stools are too short for me (I'm in the range of 6', not gonna give a definitive number on the Internet)

The other issue is that I'm broke as hell but desperate for a proper hobby, so I'm hoping for something in the range of $50 or less.

Thanks for your time!

Has anyone purchased the alesis strata core yet? It looks very compelling for the price, but I've read some reviews that the module has been freezing and crashing.