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8 Tips For Playing Electronic Drums

May 31, 2021
today I want to talk all about

electronic

drums

, now over 50 percent of new

drums

sold are

electronic

, so it's time we start looking at this instrument as a unique beast, not something that replaces acoustic, it's not acoustic versus electric, so many drummers are using it. This is your primary instrument to learn, play and practice on and we need to start looking into it more and delve into what we can do to improve our experience behind the kit, so let's get started now. Electronic drums can be a great way. For starters, they're really compact and quiet, so if you just want to play with headphones and not bother anyone else, if you live in an apartment or things like that, it can be a great alternative or a great main drum kit.
8 tips for playing electronic drums
I've actually played on electronic drums before and obviously I've played a lot on acoustic drums, now everyone has their preferences as I've been

playing

for over 20 years but I personally prefer acoustic but there have been many situations where that the only option has been electronic and if you know some of these

tips

you will be able to make the most of them in these types of situations and for those of you who play electronic drums regularly, feel free to put your

tips

in the comments section below this video so we can all share and help each other.
8 tips for playing electronic drums

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To start off, I just wanted to suggest that if you are primarily going to play electronic drums, it is very important to get some good headphones. Now I'm just using these Shure ones. In-Ear Headphones I don't know the exact model but they cost around 99 to buy some of these and they sound very very good, still have a good amount of bass but there are also other great headphones you can choose from. buy and really invest in some of them if you're just using the normal headphones you know, where there are a lot of other ambient sounds that could really disrupt the experience and make it not so enjoyable, so start there, once you have some decent ones.
8 tips for playing electronic drums
Quality headphones. The next thing I would suggest is that you take some time to learn the module. Now you can do it by simply reading the manual. I understand that manuals can be a bit boring when it comes to drumming. We are creating some courses on specific electronic kits of that type. We will guide you through the process of unpacking, setting up, learning the module, different tips and tricks like that, although we don't have all the models there, but there are tons of videos on YouTube where you can explore what other people are sharing and what others are sharing. people are doing with your module and you can really learn a lot from everyone else, so take some time to really get to know the module.
8 tips for playing electronic drums
This is a kit that I literally sat on. I hadn't really played much and we were together with the guys here we were figuring out how to turn up the music, how to change the kit, how to play different songs and I was just diving in and figuring it out, but if this kit was going to be my main kit in home I would really study how to use this module how to get the most out of it how to customize the sound of the drums to change the tuning change the triggers and how responsive they are really try to adapt it to my

playing

style instead of just leaving it as is out of the box snare drum, everyone plays kits a little bit differently and so depending on how you hit them, where you hit them, your dynamics level, you might want to go in and tune that kind of stuff.
So while I was getting ready to do this lesson, I asked everyone on Facebook and Instagram and told them what are some tips for electronic drummers because, admittedly, I don't play electronic drums much, but I wanted to get an idea of ​​what the community is saying. . is saying and one of the tips was kind of surprising and one I had never heard before and that is to use nylon tipped sticks. Now this is more applicable when you have a mesh head, so you'll see it here on the snare. drum, this is the Roland mesh head and if these wooden tips were splintered or something and you were hitting the drums over and over again this could damage the mesh head and that's why the nylon tips would be a better choice , the reason drummers use nylon tips or wooden tips in the kit is because the tip actually changes the sound of the symbol, so if you are playing a real symbol, not a rubber symbol, the tip nylon will sound different but on electronic drums the type of tip you have on your sticks really doesn't make a big difference to be honest with you now the next tip I want to give you is similar to nylon tipped sticks and that's with your kick pedal now you see here I'm using the yamaha kick pedal I know it's a little sacrilegious to put a yamaha kick pedal on a roll and drums oh my god these two these two uh they really hate each other right, it's not just a joke, but the felt bass drum mallets bang against the mesh head.
I've heard reports that that actually damages the mesh head and wears it out faster, so that's something to keep in mind, some people say to use a plastic one. or a wooden bead as that will wear down the mesh in a much shorter time, but for me personally all I've seen is that it's starting to fluff and flake all over the place and just wear down the beater instead of head, but I don't want to talk about your specific use case, so if you're worried about having to replace the mesh head on the bass drum pad, be sure to switch to a plastic or wooden mallet now that the following is probably the advice most importantly and this is the most important thing I see from drummers who play electronic drums as a way to practice, so it's not their primary way of playing or their primary way of what they consider drumming.
They actually see themselves playing an acoustic kit, but the only thing they can play is an electric kit for volume reasons or for space reasons or things like that. When transferring from an electric kit to an acoustic kit, dynamics become an issue, so if playing a rhythm, many drummers go to the settings and actually just turn up the volume of the hi-hat instead of just hitting it harder and then when they get to an acoustic kit, they can't do that, so you see a lot of things. of drummers going from electric to acoustic and hitting their hi-hats too loud, hitting their snare too quietly, hitting their kick drum too quiet because when they play their electronic kit, the kick drum is loud, you can make it loud just by playing it, just going to the module and making the trigger respond and it's just turning up the volume, so you still have to be aware of what you're practicing, so what would I do?
What I suggest doing is taking one ear out and listening to you hit the rubber pads, but I don't want the hi-hats to be too thick. I really just want to be able to control the dynamic independence of my limbs, so yes I want the hi-hat to sound louder. I can do that, I'm not just turning it up and that's a very difficult and fine line to balance because when you play the hi-hat it's only going to play so far. No matter how hard you hit it, there are cases where you need to turn it up, it's hard to know exactly when to do it, so it's very important to be able to play and adjust the speed and make it louder.
This is quieter, same with the kick drum, same with the left foot, same with the left hand, so really think about that when you play your kit and when you get on an acoustic kit, test yourself and make sure you can control your limbs independently of each other. so that the dynamics really sound great, so if you plan on playing acoustic kits too, do your best to practice a little regularly on just one to make sure all the skills transfer as expected and, if you need to do any adjust when you return to your electrical kit.
Do that, many drummers find that they sound much better on an electric kit and can play much faster just to use an acoustic kit and you get a reality check, so one of the most important thing about playing drums is to use bounce. . It's a big part of playing drums. It affects your timing. It affects your feeling. It affects the dynamics. And the differences between the rebound in an electric kit and a rebound in an acoustic kit are huge, okay? My floor tom here is a rubber pad, you'll see how easy it is to do that on an electric kit floor tom, whereas you couldn't do it on an acoustic kit where it's tuned very low and it's a little bit flamboyant and has a great sound, but there's no way I can finger like this properly, so the transition between snare and floor tom is a lot easier when you play an electric kit because the feel is very similar, they both feel a bit like trampolines , so really keep in mind that when you get on an acoustic kit and you have this specific feel and the snare roll that goes from the snare to the floor tom, know that it's not going to feel the same if you're used to practicing with an electrical instrument. equipment with your band or whatever then you go and finally do your concert you are so excited to be able to play your acoustic equipment you are out of the house no one is going to complain about the noise you are going to make your big feel, check it out, what did I you got that right, so apparently, apparently Siri is also listening to this lesson, she needs to learn some things about this, so, like I was saying, if you have that big fill, you're ready, it's your time to make your big fill, you're going to start to flying around the drums on an acoustic kit, it's all going to fall apart if you've never practiced it on that acoustic kit before because it's going to feel so bad. different now, another thing you need to consider if you're going to practice with an electric kit but also play an acoustic one is that you really need to understand the basics of drum tuning, so you need to be able to go to a house. kit at church or the club or whatever and you need to be able to tune it and get it to sound really good if you're used to just turning on the module and you get great sounding toms.
I literally just sat down and played them and they sounded great and I can change them to any drum sound. You know, all these toms sound amazing, but it's not the same on an acoustic kit because even if I play this wrong, if I play it lightly and with no kind of similar conviction it still sounds good on an acoustic kit it won't sound good at all you can you can sound really very amateurish if you don't really know how to play the drums, how to put them in a certain way and how to really tune them in a way that brings out their best sound, so make sure you develop your ears, start tuning and practice a little bit on that and when This is about setting up an electric kit, you'll notice it's pretty compact here, my toms are very very close together, they're actually a little too flat at the moment so I have to raise my shoulders to play them, but one thing to keep in mind The thing is that it is super compact, the floor tom is very close.
For the mid tom they also have almost a very similar height, whereas normally the high tom or the mid tone, I should say, would be a little bit higher, further away from the floor tom, there might be a ride cymbal lock because I have a Here there's a nice feisty big 22 or 21 inch vehicle, so it's a very compact kit now. If you're going to switch between electric and acoustic, it's important to recognize that when you go and sit in front of your acoustic kit, the distances between things are going to be further away, so if this is something you want to figure out now and make the transition easier , I would recommend that you set up your electric kit in a more similar way to your acoustic, so that when you go from one to the other. the transition is super easy, but in this case I like to have it compact.
I feel like it's a different instrument. I can play it differently. There are certain benefits and one of them is that it is very compact. I can move between toms quickly. because they have tons of bounce, they're close together and everything is right here and that's one of the big benefits of these electronic drums. There are some tips for those of you who play electronic drums, if you have any more tips. or if you have any questions for me, leave them in the comments below. It is very important that we share with each other what works and what does not work.
We can all learn a lot from each other. If you play an electronic kit and you hear people tell you, "You should get an acoustic or this isn't a real kit, just ignore them, okay, it won't help any of us to even consider what those people are saying. There's no point in even arguing." with them. It's not about whether this is a valid way of playing drums or not you're playing drums you're learning your rudiments you're playing music you can play with other people these kits are great and they're really doing a great service for the whole community of drums because they are making drumming more accessible to a wider audience.
I was in Southeast Asia last year in Singapore and it was amazing to see so many great drummers, but as you know, those places are very populated and acoustic drums are impossible for some of them, so we're making itdrumming is more accessible and it's a good thing for everyone, so thank you all very much for watching this video and we'll see you very soon.

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