This might sound dumb, but does it come with instructions? I want to use it for meditation......but I'm new to drums.
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do a google search and I'll bet you'll find a ton of videos, probably on YouTube...I am currently practicing the Native American flute, and am watching videos on YouTube...it's as good as having a 1 on 1 class...I am going to buy this drum, it is another instrument I have a great desire to learn
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For shamanic and meditation purposes a continuing hard/light one two beat is used to replicate a heart beat. A calm heart beat puts you into a trance state during which you can access answers to the intent set before you started. Or you can travel spiritually or reach theta or delta states. Practice with it and different speeds. It's also a good idea to ask for divine guidance and protection besides setting up your intent (destination) before starting. Sandra Ingram has written excellent books on trance journey.
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The drums have decent tone. However, the symbol leaves a little something to be desired. An easy cheap fix if it bothers you that much. Hope this helps, my son absolutely loves his drums! I did eventually go buy another six inch cymbal though.
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This one is pretty dang simple. Its like having 3 stomp boxes next to each other. Each screen you can use to set up a different effect and you can hook it up to your computer and record to it if you want to. You can also make your own sounds or download them from other users online. The drum patterns are not bad. You simply press the rhythm button and it starts playing, then you can use the dial on the 1st window to select a beat and tempo, etc. you can also use the footswitch to start or stop the beat.
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No. It's a very cheap unit. I wish I got a little higher quality one but it does do the trick for a portable and quiet drum practice but don't expect much
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I'm sorry, but there is no listing of drum sounds in the manual. I doubt that those sounds are somewhere in the machine. I would recommend going to a local store that has one and checking it out.
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No it doesn't. I did purchase the one they recommended. I was too much of a novice I guess. I really had a difficult time figuring out how to operate it. It has so many settings and I couldn't get the drum beat I wanted out of it.
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I've used the MIDI cable from my Yamaha keyboard to the computer so that I can play notes on the keyboard and they will become written music in an app on my computer. I don't know how you'd use it with the drum machine. By the way - I don't understand it it, but the MIDI jacks are marked IN and OUT, but they must connect to the piano keyboard in the opposite way - In to out, and out to in. Just in case it confuses you as much as it did me. Good luck.
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I personally have never tried this, but, according to the user manual, you can set the brain to have dynamic response to the drum sticks.
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I don't think this product is suitable for anyone who is learning drumming. The power supply is not suitable for Australia, need get additional power.
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Hi, I got this drum f back in December and love it.I think you could paint it ,definetly on the sides ,if you're talking about the head ,just remeber it is synthetic and may peel
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If you have some rhythm, yes. It is my first time using an mpc but I have played drums in the past so that has helped. Easy to use and endless capabilities. I wod be more concerned with getting it up and running and keeping it that way. Seems like there were a lot of little things i had to do initially.
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It was difficult to know how to assemble this piece. And our cymbals easily got bent, and had to be pushed back into their original shape. We were able to reshape the cymbal, so it works fine now.I tried to contact the CB Drums company about this to ask a similar question, and never heard anything back from them.
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These things are awesome. You attach the bass drum mute with Velcro and all the drums are dampened enough. Play while people are home without being annoying, seems like I just close the door and they can barley hear me. Hope this helps! Keep drumming man!
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I just picked one up today, it's amazing. I don't know how it compares to the original, but I'm pretty happy with it. I switched from playing ethnic drums (congas and djembe) to electronic drums (zendrum) a few years ago. I really love the zendrum but I've missed the simplicity of playing a single surface like the djembe. The Wavedrum feels about like a djembe with a synthetic head that's not terribly tight. It's very comfortable to play with your hands and you can set it up for sticks. The sounds are are mixture of samples and synthetics that are modulated by the input from the drum head, so the drum feels very live and acoustic (I had a Roland Handsonic, the Wavedrum feels much more real and responsive). The sounds range from fairly realistic acoustic sounding drums to completely synthed out analog sounds. It is not a midi instrument, in any sense, if you're looking for a controller but it's a very cool instrument in it's own right. The only downside I can see it the parameter editing is done through a completely minimal 5 button, 2 knob interface but I suspect they're trying to hit a low price point. If it's successful, maybe they can put in a USB connection and make some editing software.
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You can get a generic "thump" plugging straight in, but it's not very good. You'll need a controller to get any decent sounds. I picked up a used Yamaha DTXpress for $125. Well worth it. The variety of sounds is incredible, and you can add more triggers for other drum sounds. I wound up exchanging my KP65 for the silent pedal KU100. Very happy with it, but I'm a bass player, so I never knew a real bass drum pedal.
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It's pretty much a beat box. You sit on it and hit it in different places to make sounds similar to a drum set. This would make an excellent alternative. Practice different beats and then decide if drums are in the future.
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I always record the basic drum track on track 1 on the left set of knobs and then add guitars, keyboards, vocals, etc on the other tracks 2-8. You can export some of thise tracks and empty them out and reuse them again if you need more than the 8 available. As long as you keep a couple of basic tracks to follow along with, you'll still be able to make them all match up time wise.