here's a super cheap e-set if you want something to play on http://sellout.woot.com/offers/7pc-electric-drum-set-w-5-pads-2-kicks?ref=so_cnt_wp_22_18
thanks for the responses guys. I get that the chops can suffer, right now it's just about building up the muscle memory of moving around on a series of pads/heads instead of just hitting the same pad over and over again (and using legit pedals too, of course). That said, I tried those dtx pads yamaha has used on some of their newer kits and those things are kind of awesome if you haven't checked them out. Anyway, still considering options.
I had a Yamaha DTXpressIV below about 10 years ago. It was pretty awesome. Functioning hi-hat and the cymbals were all 2 zone, so you could play the bells. The snare had a sensor on the rim so you could do rimshots and clicks. While it is clearly more quiet than an acoustic kit, I was not able to play it in an apartment. Beating the shit out of it was still too loud for the neighbors. Totally different than playing a normal kit, but it was fun to have. Traded it for an acoustic kit on Craigslist when I bought a house.
I have an Alesis DM8 that I love. Bought it just to have in my basement to practice and play along with. Live, I always play acoustic drums, always will. I'd recommend something similar that has the tunable mesh heads, especially if you plan to switch back and forth between Electronic and Acoustic. One of the companies makes pretty realistic feeling e-cymbals now too. I forget who, I just saw them at guitar center once.
DW9000 double pedal guy here. I'd love to try one of those Pearl Demon Drive pedals sometime though. Has anyone played those?
Your short username sucks bc cannot tag found a cheesedick AF cover for you: Mario - Let me love you. I'd say 7/10 on the cheddarD scale not as bad as your body is a wonderland or crash, but worse than biebs. was actually a suggestion from a girl I used to mess around with to figure out how to cover it on acoustic after I played her the James Bay version of If I Ain't Got You (pretty awesome cover actually if you haven't heard it. as well as his Man in the Mirror). Both turn vaginas into slip n slides. crocodile mile. just tune the guitar down enough steps that you can sing them. If I ain't got you I tune down like 2.5 steps.
Bought an SG a few days ago and it's completely revitalized my love of guitar. Hoping to be back in shredding form in a few months.
@guitar players What am I missing for my pedal board? I've got a tuner, noise reducer, overdrive, chorus, delay, and reverb. The reverb and delay come from the amp though :/. Reverb is actually pretty good, delay is meh.
A little of this and that. I'm on a surf kick right now. A lot of the times when I'm playing that, I'll send my signal straight to the amp.
You're not really "missing" anything. You could get an expression pedal or a wah, but unless you get into more atmospheric stuff you won't really use much else.
You can get a decent one for $20 bucks or a bad ass one for $100. It basically drives your amp harder and you get a brighter sound.
I love pedals, but I try to keep mine in check. My current setup is guitar-->cantrell wah-->tuner-->80's era Boss Flanger --> Boss Harmonizer--> delay-->OCD fulltone--> amp. Amp also has a footswitch with tube distortion, reverb, and a lead boost. The coolest thing I have is a Keith McMillen 12 step hooked up to an iPad running the animoog app. Basically, I can get any create really weird sounds and then play them in key with my feet while I'm doing something on guitar. I haven't perfected the use yet, but it's damn fun.
So I haven't watched him in a long time but I always had a special place in my heart for his work with heernt I'm pretty surprised that looking up marc guiliana for the first time in ages on youtube, that he's finally, finally getting sponsorships from Vic Firth and such
I decided to take advantage of a modest guitar center sale over the weekend and picked up the maschine. Such a blast to play with. I'm about to be (much more of) a hermit.
Wasn't sure what that was so I googled it. That looks really cool and really hard to learn how to use
Steep learning curve, but very well designed both in terms of the software and hardware, which means that every minute you spend playing with it you figure out how to do more. There's also tons of tutorial stuff out there, of course, it being pretty popular and all.
What are some of the artists you like? I have rudimentary knowledge of synthesizers, sequencers, drum machines, etc but it's something I'd like to learn more about. I'm a huge Daft Punk fan for example and would love to be able to incorporate some of their sounds
I mean the short answer is that I'm a hiphop guy, so for me this is definitely about experimenting with sample based production, and funky drum patterns. But of course if you like hiphop's samples, then you like a bit of everything - soul, r&b, funk, disco, psych, prog, jazz, etc.
I like hip hop too. So buying something like that is better for making beats than buying like the high end Alesis or Yamaha keyboard that has drum machine/sampler features?
not better, I don't think. I mean you could argue about efficiency and how easily you can achieve any one thing, but ultimately I think it's all about what metaphors make sense to the individual, and what they've done previously. In my case I've only ever been a drummer, and I've been watching clips of my favorite producers chop shit up on MPCs for years, so the idea of having a box with pads made sense to me. Btw on the subject of keyboard samplers, NI makes something called Komplete Kontrol that you have to check out. I'm sure there are cheaper more sensible options out there, but it is badass. Just Blaze used one for his episode of the "Rhythm Roulette" series.
Posting in here for future reference. I'm trying to teach myself how to play a bit of piano while on sabbatical. Just messing around with video lessons and an iPad keyboard right now, until I decide to stick with it and/or find a good deal on a used keyboard.
easiest place to start is learning how to play chords with the basic 3rds. gotta know which notes are in the scale you're playing but that's easy. start on the note that the key is in (ex: C) to find the notes for that key you go up whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half. so it would go: C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C hopefully that makes sense. going from C-D as a "whole" is going C - Db (black key) - D. You skip the Db to make it moving up one whole note bc C-Db is a half note up. Once you figure out what notes are in the key you're playing the chords are simple. "Thirds" = C-E-G is a C chord. To make a chord a Minor you just move the middle note down a half step: C-Eb-G. Gets real real fun once you can figure out the concept because E-G-C and G-C-E are also C Chords and you just kinda go with which one tickles your pickle
I disagree, unless he's learning piano strictly to play along with rock type bands. If you want to learn more traditional type pieces then chords aren't the place to start; that's more of a guitar thing. Learn "Fur Elise" by Beethoven. Everyone knows it and it sounds cool as shit and it isn't that hard to play. (Well just learn the beginning part; I think it goes into some fuckery down the line but no one knows that part anyway.)
I mean.... I've been taking piano lessons from someone that does it for a living and his expertise is teaching classical piano. He started me off learning scales and building chords. If you want to cherry pick cool songs to learn and just peck around that's one way to go about it I guess... but that's fucking retarded in the long run Learning theory is actually beneficial
and if you're gonna cherry pick one song to learn go with blue bossa. once you know how to play it you can practice every style of music there is using the same progressions, just by changing the rhythm with your left hand and improvising with the right hand. but idk if we're not encouraging people to learn how to actually play then no need to bring up pentatonics
Yea the online lessons I'm taking look like they get into music theory pretty quickly. And the guy who teaches them is probably the nerdiest guy I've ever seen, and I'm a damn software engineer. Howtoplaypiano.ca if you're interested. So cringeworthy.
You kinda did... just sure why you said "learning chords is more of a guitar thing". My teacher didn't give me actual songs to go home and learn until I was 3 months into lessons. It's just not logical to say hey go memorize how to hit these notes in this order with no understanding of why you're doing it. Just going from what you said originally he can take knowing what notes are in the scale of Aminor and learning to play Fur Elise would be 1000x easier.
Kinda thought I had mastered the guitar after learning this solo: 1:32-3:30 but this one is giving me some serious trouble: Been working on it for like a week, and I can't seem to speed it up. Very frustrating.
Well he has his pedal now, digitec and loves it. Good call man It does so many things and it's cool to hear him play around
Side note he played with the worship band for the 1st time last week. If I knew how I would post the video.....so proud
I would be an internet cool guy and say a church band is lame but on the real playing with any kind of organized group will be good practice for him. Just make sure he learns how to rock n roll
He loves playing with others, and the worship music is pretty easy to play. And he likes it. He does like playing ac/dc songs though
led my church youth group and FCA meetings guitar/singing from 7th-12th grade. practice is practice. get good at chord progressions and after playing LORD I LIFT YOUR NAME ON HIIIIIIIIIGH for the 45th time you start messing around with different ways to play it using chord variations... which is tight