DIY Steps: How to Play Drums!

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Kind of a sequel to my piano instructable. sighs so lets begin shall we? Learning the basic pieces - Pt. 1 The first piece I will show you is one of the most common used parts. It is called the Snare drum. The snare is basically a regular drum, except it has multiple usually 5 or 6... By: Superjustin18

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The Components of a Drum Set

Learn everything you need to know to set up a drum set, from putting the heads on the Bass Drum, Tom-Toms and Snare Drum, to setting the Drum Throne, hardware, pedals, and Cymbals. This video shows you all the components of a set.

Drum Wear: drums in your clothing!

Look at the riders of any city bus. Many of them are plugged into their music players, tapping along to the beat, pretending they have drums at their disposal. Now there's no need to pretend! Drum wear gives aspiring drummers a fully portable and fun drum kit anywhere they go. The system uses force-...
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Building a drum machine with low-cost tangible interface (d-touch drum machine)

The d-touch drum machine is a drum machine with a tangible user interface: you can make music by placing and arranging physical objects on an A4 piece of paper. To make tangible beats you need some old stype cut & paste. This instrctables explains how to construct the physical parts of the inter...

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Turn Guitar Hero Drums into an Electronic Drum Set

If you want to rock out without the expense or bulk of a full size drum set, you can hook a set of Guitar Hero drums up to your computer for an electronic jam session.

Andy Lunn wanted to play around with drumming, but he didn't want to drop a huge amount of money on a full size or pricey electronic set. He decided to follow in the footsteps of some of the DIYers he found on YouTube and hook a Guitar Hero drum set up to his computer. Below is a sample of the Guitar Hero drums in action: