Posts tagged Percussion

Electric Drum Kit Shirt: Beat Your Chest To The Music

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Check out this new invention from ThinkGeek. Its the Electric Drum Kit Shirt! Simply hit the drums on the shirt with your finger and they play through the built in speaker… simple but amazing. With 7 different drum sounds you’re ready for a personal drum solo on your chest.

All 7 Drums are playable!!!

Product Features

  • Tap the drums on this shirt and they actually play through the embedded speaker
  • All drums on the shirt are playable. 7 Different drum sounds in all
  • Battery pack with speaker stores in hidden pocket near hem of shirt
  • Adjustable volume… the top volume level is really loud
  • Black 100% cotton shirt
  • Requires 4 AAA batteries (not included)
  • Exclusive product designed and manufactured by ThinkGeek

So I guess you’re wondering about the big question, how do you wash an Electric Drum Kit Shirt without ruining the mechanics?

Well…

Washing Instructions

  1. Carefully peel drum decal from front of T-Shirt
  2. Unplug ribbon connector behind decal and remove decal
  3. Unplug battery pack and remove it
  4. You can leave the ribbon cable inside the shirt
  5. Machine wash gentle cycle on cold
  6. Hang to dry

Check out the Electric Drum Kit Shirt in action:

And this little ripper!!

A great gift for a drumming enthusiast or event for yourself to show-off in front of your mates. Totally geeky. Totally cool!

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Why Buy An Electric Drum Set?

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Why should you consider buying an Electric Drum Set over an Acoustic Drum Set? To help you in you purchase decision, I’ve outlined some of the benefits of Electric Drum Sets.

  • Electric Drum Sets are almost silent when played. This means you can practice anywhere and anytime with privacy. No more dedicated time to play during the day and no curfews!
  • Use headphones on your Electric Drum Set and play as loud as you want without disturbing the neighbors.
  • You can create unique sound simulations like being in a concert hall or rock stadium at the press of a button.
  • Electric Drum Sets offer hundreds of drum and other percussion sounds such as Rock Drum Sets, Jazz Drum Sets, Hip-Hop Drum Sets and more, with most Drum Sets having songs built-in to play along with.
  • With an Electric Drum Set you can input a CD player or iPod and play along to your favorite songs, and many models allow you to create your very own performances.
  • Most new models of Electric Drum Sets now include memory hard drives so you can store songs and upload more Drum Sets and sounds.
  • Electric Drum Sets are very compact, lightweight and portable.
  • No need to tune your Drum Skins anymore because its all digital!
  • Save $$$ on Drum Sticks cos you won’t break them on cymbals and rims etc unlike Acoustic Drum Sets.
  • Have full control over the output volume when performing live. You can’t do this with Acoustic Drum Sets!

There’s plenty more benefits to Electric Drum Sets that haven’t been mentioned above, however they will certainly be uncovered in future posts.

If you have any feedback and would like to add to the list, please leave a comment below.

Cheers!

Greg

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How Electric Drum Sets Work

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Basically, when the Electric Drum Pad is struck, this triggers a voltage change in the embedded force sensitive resistor (FSR) (or piezoelectric transducer…what a mouthful!). This signal is then transmitted to the Drum Brain via cables and translated into digital waveforms, which produces the desired percussion sound selected in the Drum Brain. Each Drum Pad can be assigned to different sounds, giving the Electric Drummer endless potential of configuring the Drum Set. This ability gives Electric Drum Sets a great advantage over Acoustic Drum Sets because you can simply change the whole sound of the Drum Set with the push of a button.

Some critics say that Electric Drum Sets will never sound the same as Acoustic Drum Sets, but some brands out such as Yamaha and Roland are starting to make the playing experience and sound almost indistinguishable to Acoustic Drum Sets.

Check out these Professional Electric Drum Sets:

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Yamaha DTXPRESS IV Special Electronic Drum Kit

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Roland TD20SX V-Pro Electronic Drum Set

For more information about the history of the Electric Drum Set, click here.

Cheers!

Greg

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