Does it matter what drumkit I get?

GasserOfMattoon

Okay, so i want to learn to make some kind of a beat, but I don't know the first thing about drums.
I could buy a full kit but i've no way of knowing if I'm capable of playing. (though I can just about get a rythym going when i'm banging on stuff).
I see on Waltons.ie they have a "Rythym coach" electronic thingy, which appeals to me because I'd like to learn a bit without a teacher if possible ( i'm not really a people person).

Any advice from drummers/students on where to start, cos I'm starting to drive people at work mental with my off-beat hammering.. maybe if I was good they'd undersatnd?

S.R.F.C.

So you don't want lessons but want to know where to start and want to know whether the drum kit you get matters?

If you're purely getting it just for a mess and a bang around then it doesn't matter, check out this one on DI here, cheap and will do the job for you. Otherwise just keep an eye out on DI, adverts.ie, buy and sell, there's cheap starter kits popping up pretty regularly.

You can pick up the basic on drums easily enough and build on from there, you can use books, magazines etc and most importantly the internet.

Johnny Storm

My son has a drum kit and its really ****ing loud. Depending on your living arrangements you might be better off with an inexpensive electric drum kit.

Eoin Madsen

GasserOfMattoon wrote: »

Okay, so i want to learn to make some kind of a beat, but I don't know the first thing about drums.
I could buy a full kit but i've no way of knowing if I'm capable of playing. (though I can just about get a rythym going when i'm banging on stuff).
I see on Waltons.ie they have a "Rythym coach" electronic thingy, which appeals to me because I'd like to learn a bit without a teacher if possible ( i'm not really a people person).

Learning without a teacher to start will just leave you with bad habits that you have to unlearn later. You can read about what to do, but the real function of a teacher is having someone there to tell you if you're actually doing it right.

PearlDrummer

I taught myself, i had experience playing other instruments, but if you have any bit of timing at all in your head, it shouldn't proove too difficult....

That being said... it has been more than one loudmouth who cracked a joke about drums not being an instrument,and not being hard... but they are much harder than they appear to the non-drummers eye....

It is cool when a loudmouth like that sits down at a kit, and doesn't know his arse from his elbow, and doesn't know there are pedals and sticks and accents and rudiments....

They have to be the coolest instrument ever though... there is so much you can customise about them.... NO two drum kits are the exact same... that's what makes them super awesome.... ya!!!!!

If you get drums into your head like I did... you'll be addicted... I can't stop buying snares!!!!! SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!!