making drums
 

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

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.

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

What about an empty tub of Pringles?

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

^ dude those links dont work.


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

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

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

@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?

that sounds nice

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.

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

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

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.

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

This website seems pretty ace for this kind of thing:

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

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

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


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