Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX
Local Boob
yeah...you don't get good at odd times by not learning to live in them...just like money beat...if you don't play along to Billy Jean, you won't live in Money Beat
what is your favorite song of Five Beats
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yeah...you don't get good at odd times by not learning to live in them...just like money beat...if you don't play along to Billy Jean, you won't live in Money Beat
Luv4drums
Active Member
Sure that will be the shortcut...
Don't you need about $25k worth of gear to start on that path?
Sarcastic fun, no disrespect intended.
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Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX
Local Boob
Luv4drums
Active Member
Which part did you play the orchestrra bells on? I used bicycle rims for cymbals, hung from the ceiling, to learn black sabbath before I had any cymbals. I don't see the electronics. I learned "No one Like You" with my airdrum set. I was trying to joke with you about it, when maybe I should be asking for you for lessons...
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX
Local Boob
I actually had orchestra bells from my middle school drum set up!!! Everythign else was just done on a surface that sounded as close to the original as I could get. I leanred everything on that drum set...Rush, Ozzy, Metallica, Queensryche, Kansas, Minor Threat, Van Halen...all of the jazz stuff dad taught me...it helped me develop some fill creativity having to adjust some "monster kit" stuff to that
I remember having cymbals that were merely targets...sometimes even unable to voice a sound resembling a cymbal...but costing under $20
Hurrah for cheap cymbals! (well, it did slow down my development of lifting sound off of them...but what-cha gonna do?)
Stack 2 5 piece sets together, take the bottom heads off the 2 left most mounted toms and tune 'em high...take the bottom off an old snare, tune it high as well then call it a timbale and put it off to the left...next to a badly out of tune glockenspiel(stripped mounts meant that some of the bars did not resonate as intended...but $5 at a garage sale cant be beat!)
My high school bedroom looked like many others and echoed with the sound of poverty...lol!
There are few limits we cannot redefine
but they do take their toll over time.
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Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX
Local Boob
those were/are definitely not cheap! they are my dads 55 Zildjians. Playing on that set taught me not to bash! He would have killed me.
so my high school bedroom was the attic of our house. It was a big, fixed up attic, with a walk in closet. I had my drum set, bed, HO train set and shelves for the stereo etc up there. The walls were covered with metal band posters, blacklight posters, sports posters. My middlesxhool rock band would practice up there, and my friend in the neighborhood who had a CB700 drum set would bring it over and we would combine drum sets to make our "dream kit". It would stay up all summer. I also hung "stage lights" (Maxwell House cans with colored light bulbs in them) from "rigging" on the ceiling. We were trying to replicate Iron Maidens stage set up in the videos on MTV. We were lucky we didn't burn the house down.....