Category: Drums

notes and things

Personal Music Mantras

Always able, know when. Always able to play the cool stuff, know when to use it most effectively All Ham, No Baloney Use your body to play up the attitude of the song as honestly as you can; never sarcastically, never without as much heart as you can give

Potential setup

E drum extension

Drum Rack, first impressions

finally bit the bullet and bought a Gibraltar drum rack. 3 towers, two wings, and a messload of clamps. I’ve got it setup with my simmons pads on one side of it. Doesn’t look like i’ll need the second wing for now. I’ve also purchased a remote hihat stand so i can play this beast…
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Removable rear cover drum pads

I decided i’m going to cut vents in these drum pads to emit LED light from inside. These will have small esp8266 chips (i’ve been using the Wemos D1 mini for this application). They will receive information via wifi over artnet to display relevant video from my Arkaos program.

Drum setup and painting pads

Trying to find a good location for everything. Think I’ve got it figured out.