[king_buzzo]

hey is there any way i could make something that could be used as drums out of like house stuff, buckets ect...

[acousticrock87]

I used to kind of improvise when I just had a snare drum, like hitting the side of a floor lamp as the high-hat and stuff. I had a symbol without a stand once and it fit pretty nicely on a drumstick. Depends if you want to practice, or actually make music. A "practice set" is easy to wing, but one that sounds good is a different story. Just make sure it can't break. If it can, it will.

[A Thousand Threads]

http://www.home.earthlink.net/%7Egra...kcandrums.html
http://www.home.earthlink.net/%7Egra...es/kk4in1.html


but i suppose that this isn´t what you are looking for

[h8kurdt]

What about an empty tub of Pringles?

[johnnywinternoshow]

http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/prewaryardsale.html this band use buckets for drums. When i saw them live, the drummer was using wooden spoons as drum sticks and the drums were two upturned 10 or 20 kg buckets. I think one was maybe filled with sand or something. It was a great show

http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/mp3/prewar_cool.mp3 here's an mp3

[king_buzzo]

^ dude those links dont work.

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

I used to kind of improvise when I just had a snare drum, like hitting the side of a floor lamp as the high-hat and stuff. I had a symbol without a stand once and it fit pretty nicely on a drumstick. Depends if you want to practice, or actually make music. A "practice set" is easy to wing, but one that sounds good is a different story. Just make sure it can't break. If it can, it will.

cool thanks. im gonna use an old pickguard for a snare for now but it sounds nothing like a snare.

[johnnywinternoshow]

umm... they work for me, i dunno what to suggest, manually type them in?

[trance feeeedback]

take one of those big plastic trashcans and take some tape and cover the open top with tape to make a bass drum.

[king_buzzo]

@johnnywinternoshow i typed them and still nothing happens

ill try the bucket thing if i find a bucket in my house. how bout a bin?

[finding nobody]

Originally Posted by johnnywinternoshow

http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/prewaryardsale.html this band use buckets for drums. When i saw them live, the drummer was using wooden spoons as drum sticks and the drums were two upturned 10 or 20 kg buckets. I think one was maybe filled with sand or something. It was a great show

http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/mp3/prewar_cool.mp3 here's an mp3

that sounds nice

[Glice]

Go around your garage/ loft/ shed with a stick. Hit things. Find the things that sound nice. Find the sounds you like, don't try and find the things that sound like pre-existing drums.

Buy 3 pairs of drumsticks once you've found your junk. Leave one pair normal; the second pair, wrap very very tightly with cotton wool and seal with glue or tape or some such. The third should be sanded, to be used for rubbing, although I do this to all drumsticks I use.

Vessels (bins, kegs, oil drums) can be filled with water to change the pitch. If you have things you don't mind trashing, you can make pseudo-steel drums by hammering dents into metal things. After a while you should have an idea about how to tune things and what you're looking for, which makes the whole thing a bit more musical.

If you want to go down the silly route, invest in cutting machinery and safety goggles.

If you want to get really silly, you can use a series of home-made devices to make aeolian drums and generative water pipes.

Try and think about the physics of sound when looking around - sometimes you have to hit, stroke or bow in a certain fashion to get sounds out.

Car junkyards are an ideal source of cheap, and often monolithic, percussion.

[m^a(t)h]

Always remember to keep it simple though, you dont want turn into STOMP or anything like that....

[king_buzzo]

ok, thanks. i found lots of stuff that i can use. i found
lunchbox
coke bottle
music stand to be hi hat or something like that (dont know the names of the drums)
and i dont need to buy the sticks cause i already stole some from my school.i also found a bunch of broken sybals(sp?) in school and maybe ill take those

[acousticrock87]

On a side note, if you're new to drumming - with your feet, try to stomp/tap the ground or whatever you're using for the bass drum with your toes, not your heels.

[johnnywinternoshow]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

On a side note, if you're new to drumming - with your feet, try to stomp/tap the ground or whatever you're using for the bass drum with your toes, not your heels.

I can never do that, always heels with me and if I have a rhythm going with my hands then my feet do exactly the same thing

King_Buzzo was born on this day.

[ALIEN ANAL]

biscuit tins are good, and also tie a sock tigh on a stick and smack a suitcase

[Iain]

This website seems pretty ace for this kind of thing:

http://www.rhythmweb.com/homemade/

[king_buzzo]

Holy shit this thread is still alive??? fuck....

[Cardinal Rob]

Here's an idea: http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om06750.html

Originally Posted by ALIEN ANAL

biscuit tins are good

Haha, before he joined it, my father's '77 band had a biscuit tin player instead of a drummer.