BramVanroy
Senior Member
(No, this topic is not about a teenager finding out about his or her genitals.)
I have been playing the drums for 13-15 years or so now. Which means: following lessons for that long. First I followed classical percussion and drumming (snaredrums theory, "standard" non-shuffle genres, but also a lot other percussion, including melodic percussion) - and now I'm in my fourth or fifth year of jazz (shuffle-y genres, more improv).
BUT since I've started jazz, I also started playing on an electronic kit (as some of you know). I put my acoustic kits in boxes. Now after moving stuff around, there is no place left for it anyway. I've been quite happy with the electronic for the past years. Recording stuff is easy. It has an integrated metronome, cool play-alongs. It's easy to adjust kits and so on. However, for the last couple of months I terribly miss my acoustic kit. I have been playing some rehearsels and gigs on an acoustic kit and daaaaamn son, it's so much more fun! I can't tell why, though, but the dynamic and atmosphere is so different.
I really want to start playing on an acoustic kit again, but first and foremost, there's simply no place to put it. Secondly, I have no experience recording an acoustic drumset and I fear that it would take me too long to actually get good results with the recording.
Are there any others that miss their drumset, or that had to put away some instruments for some reason and reallllly 'miss' it?
I have been playing the drums for 13-15 years or so now. Which means: following lessons for that long. First I followed classical percussion and drumming (snaredrums theory, "standard" non-shuffle genres, but also a lot other percussion, including melodic percussion) - and now I'm in my fourth or fifth year of jazz (shuffle-y genres, more improv).
BUT since I've started jazz, I also started playing on an electronic kit (as some of you know). I put my acoustic kits in boxes. Now after moving stuff around, there is no place left for it anyway. I've been quite happy with the electronic for the past years. Recording stuff is easy. It has an integrated metronome, cool play-alongs. It's easy to adjust kits and so on. However, for the last couple of months I terribly miss my acoustic kit. I have been playing some rehearsels and gigs on an acoustic kit and daaaaamn son, it's so much more fun! I can't tell why, though, but the dynamic and atmosphere is so different.
I really want to start playing on an acoustic kit again, but first and foremost, there's simply no place to put it. Secondly, I have no experience recording an acoustic drumset and I fear that it would take me too long to actually get good results with the recording.
Are there any others that miss their drumset, or that had to put away some instruments for some reason and reallllly 'miss' it?