your wisdom woodshed

[Drummerboy3940]

Here is my practice room
this is from the outside of the room, my private bathroom and inside the room

[Paradiddle my snizzle]

The post about stu's woodshed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It can be really hard to get humor across in writing, but that was great:)

I use my kit to practise on, but i do have a drumpad for the really nerdy stuff;)
I'm also currently considering getting one of those small 6" rubbery pad's so i can have have it with me wherever i go - Now i just drum on the sole (or soul) of my shoe if i cant find anything else to beat - Do you want to see a picture of my shoes, lol?

[Harakirie]

Originally Posted by Drummerboy3940

Here is my practice room
this is from the outside of the room, my private bathroom and inside the room

damn nice man !
wheres the beer ? LoL

[James_E]

I only have an e-kit right now. I practice on acoustic sets out of the house at friends place or I rent space occasionally ($15/hour including the kit!). I normally run the e-kit into a guitarport, set to "No Amp" and play along with MP3s stored on the PC using the guitar port. It has looping built right in so I can loop pieces of tunes to get through them correctly, and can also play them at half speed for learning. I play this thing at all hours of the night through headphones.. great for practice.

The TV is for watching drum DVDs and for the kids Xbox. My beloved LP is also in the pics. I love her. That classical guitar is a little $100 cheap plywood thing that is my "beater", that amazingly holds it's tune for weeks on end and sounds pretty good.

Here's my world:

[Drummerboy3940]

James E, where did you get that Vic Firth rudiments poster? I would like one for my room.

[James_E]

A friend of mine got it for me, from his drum teacher who is sort of endorsed by Vic Firth or something. It also comes with the Mark Wessels "A Fresh Approach to the Snare Drum" package from Vic Firth. I have that one and the poster is still in the book.

[Wegadrummer]

Hello and hello again.. Here are mine and my girlfriend kits (mrs.wega).. We use to practise one,two times a week.. pretty fun to do drum battles.. enjoy.. The mapex belongs to another kid that never play drums..

[pcmckay]

Originally Posted by Harakirie

heres my not gigging kit , i play it when the drums get loud for like 10 ò clock at night !



LOL! Yepp im hitting my trashcan with a pedal and use it as my bassdrum ! But hey it works and even gives you a bassy sound!

I dig the Billy Gladstone pad, I still have mine from forth grade. I am now 39 years old you do the math! I still use it, it's still a great practise pad.

[Zildjian 242]

Where I come up with my ideas



where i actually use my ideas



(thats a lil outdated pic, I now got a 21" Paiste Sig silver mellow ride and new texture coated heads)

[MuDvAyNe]

Originally Posted by James_E

I only have an e-kit right now. I practice on acoustic sets out of the house at friends place or I rent space occasionally ($15/hour including the kit!). I normally run the e-kit into a guitarport, set to "No Amp" and play along with MP3s stored on the PC using the guitar port. It has looping built right in so I can loop pieces of tunes to get through them correctly, and can also play them at half speed for learning. I play this thing at all hours of the night through headphones.. great for practice.

The TV is for watching drum DVDs and for the kids Xbox. My beloved LP is also in the pics. I love her. That classical guitar is a little $100 cheap plywood thing that is my "beater", that amazingly holds it's tune for weeks on end and sounds pretty good.

Here's my world:

I liked the Groove Essentials poster.I have mine on the wall too ;p

[On The Real]

Hey guys, here is my practice area. My sister and her boyfriend are always downstairs where my kit is set up, so i had to work around that. I really want to get one of the Vic Firth Rudiment posters, does anyone know where i can get that? Otherwise i might have to copy them all down from the site. Which i cant wait to do.

Practice Area

[Davidb59]

You can buy them from the Vic Firth website.

[neilpscuz]

Ola everyone here is my woodshed ! A 2 and 1/2 car garage converted into my studio/rehearsal/jam room.Above is the main room,below the control room. Also some of my reference materials.Works very well for drum practice, band rehearsal,or recording:o)

[Darmikalus]

lol im lovin the monalisa lp...

nice shed, it looks real fun..

[PreppieNerd]

The Vic Firth Posters, both rudiments and groove essentials I got for free at a drum clinic, there were a bunch of them laying around everywhere.

[biscut]

here is a DW practice set.

Sometimes I put up the 12" snare from my Yamaha Hip Gig Jr.

I use rutes on the cymbals and a stick in the left hand so I can hear the pads and the cymbals somewhat balanced but I'm going to get the HQ cymbal silencers so I can use regular sticks.

Those are Matador bongos behind the music stand.

When I see photos of drumsets in corners of house or apartment rooms I think "Wow, that must really be loud".

[Tam]

Originally Posted by Bonzo91

My room is very small i seriosly think im going deff!

Dude thats pretty much whats happening to me and i play in a metal band so even worse.... im getting EAR PROTECTION ASAP

[thefrankenator]

so practice spaces. our garage is over 200 years old hence the broken plaster and junk everywhere but i wouldn't swap it for the world. the walls are 2 FEET THICK!

my kit's a bit of a hybrid. pearl target+ tama starclassic+ sonor, pearl and tama hardware+zildjian and sabian cymbals....?



well now i know the pearl bass drum's backwards but i was dismantling the kit when i remembered to take a pic
this was in one of the sheds on our farm where we had a big gang of people over for my sisters 21'st, long story, in the end gig still kicked ass





this is our practice space its been cleared out since this pic, but it had a really good atmosphere when it was like this





had to post this one. its just really random to see the kit on the farm (stage we built ourselves) and our fields stretching back for miles!!


(before somebody says it i jus wanna make this clear........
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH DUCT TAPE!!!!)

[rendezvous_drummer]

Hahaha that's Ireland for ye! Ancient, habitible housing. That's a massive drum kit!

[fat in the middle]

my old caravan in the uk with a custom kit i put together...
more on my website
www.paulclifford.moonfruit.com

[badlydubbedsean]

this is where i practice

[Garvin]

This is my new place...

I love the world percussion variety you have and especially the Drummer World logo on the reso head. Nice.

[badlydubbedsean]

mm bongos! like that variety in your practice room, much mre fun when your practicing, your ot stuck behind the same type of kit. great sounds. i do timpani at skl myself, so i like new stuff, and i was insired into drumming by african bongos.

[Garvin]

Thanks guys... Actually that reso head reads Drummers World (a drum shop in Manhattan) you should check out their site www.drummersworld.com.

Thanks again!

[Deathmetalconga]

Originally Posted by Garvin

This is my new place...

What a fun pad! We have many of the same percussion instruments: congas, bongos and tablas. Collecting and learning new stuff is something you can do your entire life.

How long have you been playing tablas? I've been at it for about six years and so far I'm leanred only a few talas, mainly chatasri jati (four beats) variations. I have some tabla playing at www.terrasonus.com on a song called Third Chakra.

[badlydubbedsean]

I have a funny way of practising. Sometimes when I either can't go down to my practising shed because my brother is practising guitar or because my neighbours are feeling particularly inhospitable (long words lol) I go to Anderton's music store in Guildford and try out the electric drums, because they are so lax they'll let you spend an hour there if you really want, and they have the roland v-drums, which are great. Outdated pic of the store:



I also went all the way to southampton today, because my parents had a day off work and wanted to go shopping. Southampton, by the way, sounds like far but they have the best shops lol! I went to Sound Control and spent a while on the huge v-drum kit. This one:



Eventually the staff at Anderton's will get to know me as the 'funny little feller who comes in here and spends 'alf and hour on the ol' rolands.'

[Drumsword]

Originally Posted by Guillermo

Ok... so I was thinking, some guys like having their drums in their room... others like to have them on a room or garage outside their house... others prfer to have their kit on a rehearsal room or studio of their band... wich is your preferred setup, either that you have or wish?

In my case, I am so lucky, ha, ha, ha... after YEARS of not being able to play at home, at my job, one of the important aspects for my "drafting" was my own, exclusive room for drums, right at the office... two doors from mine... Man... it is great I have 2 acoustic sets there ALL THE TIME... ha, ha, ha... can't complain.

I am fortunate in that I have a set here at my house, in my practice room. (I cut my garage in half, insulated it, fixed it up and gave myself a 13X16 practice room) I also have a 6 piece ddrum set at church, my guitarist has a 5 piece slingerland set at his house and my other guitarist has a 5 piece tama set at his house. So I'm covered wherever there is practice.

[Mrbellhop]

Garvin

Very nice! I would like to come and hang out in that room for a while. Shotgun cuica!

[jollymosher]

nice sheds guys!! i wish to put together a roland for practice to. but i havnt the money.

[NUTHA JASON]

if i had a limitless budget this is what i would put together and spend 8 hours a day there.

MY DREAM WOODSHED!

[Mista Bob]

Nice and simple.
For when I can't use my drums for practice (or if I dont want to) my computer desk doubles as my 'practice area'.
I put my copy of Stick Control on the computer (otherwise it would be a pain reading the book on the desk) and for the metronome i use the good ol free online metronome.

Once I get a double pedal I'll be making my own kick practice pad and sticking it under the desk.
So even while browsing the net (or even playing video games) I can work on my double bass.

[drummer_dudley]

heres mine, the thong attatched onto my wall actually isnt as bad as i thought it was going to be

[defunkt]

Nutha what are bass absorbers?

Also you forgot to add a fridge in there!

[NUTHA JASON]

dunno, i ve seen them in quite a few studios and was told they take out 'unwanted ambient frequencies'. they are usually a colum of soft material wedged into the corners.
for me the water cooler would do other wise i would be beering it up too much in my work place - so no fridge.

j

[badlydubbedsean]

I have a shed in my garden, currently used by me and my brother for music practice - my brother is really into guitars. We are about to have it soundproofed heavily and linked up with electricity, and this is supposedly what we will do with it when it is finished. I've also put what I hope my drum kit will look like by then :D

From outside:

[Johnest]

Ok, here is my wisdom woodshed.


It's a Roland TD-3 V-drum. I have bought this marvellous toy last year. Before that, i have played almost 10 years on a practice pad! I also own an old Ludwig 1965 kit but i have not played on it since i live in an appartment... Almost 10 yers without hearing a drum sound. I know that those electronic drums are a little ''dry'' to play but it's better that than nothing.

Thanks for looking.

[straks]

This post gave me tones of ideas for my own, thx.

[SketcHyRollin564]

Originally Posted by Harakirie

heres my not gigging kit , i play it when the drums get loud for like 10 ò clock at night !



LOL! Yepp im hitting my trashcan with a pedal and use it as my bassdrum ! But hey it works and even gives you a bassy sound!

HA! that trashcan part really made me laugh. Thats actualy a really good idea, and is making me want to get a cheap bass pedal so i can do that on my computer desk.

[Joe Kearney]

Originally Posted by NUTHA JASON

if i had a limitless budget this is what i would put together and spend 8 hours a day there.

MY DREAM WOODSHED!

That would be a big room...