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So if you want to practice drumming at home and you cannot afford a drum of any sorts,
or at least not for a while but you want to get started, there's different things you
can do. I mean there are people who make their own actual drums out of maple wood. They get
the different parts, the rims and all that. I'm not going to show you any of that. There's
just not time to do that in a three minute video, but you can use plenty of household
objects to create your own homemade drum. You can create all the parts of a drum set
with household objects if you want. To me the most important one to create for yourself
is the snare because you can practice so many things with just that. If you create yourself
a homemade snare drum, that can be done just by using a book or any hard surface with rebound
to it. So I tend to get a book. This one's a hard cover. You can do any of your rolling
rhythmics on it. Single stroke, double stroke, rolling, all of that you can cover with anything
that has a rebounding surface like a book like this. If you want to explore cymbal sounds,
you can just get a metallic surface. That one's a little bit harsher than a cymbal sounds,
it decays a lot faster, but it still can give you at least a different sound effect so that
you can distinguish between your cymbal, your homemade cymbal and your homemade snare. Now you may have noticed for the bass, the
bass or the kick drum, I'm just moving my foot. You can also, if you have a bass pedal
or something to put it up against, maybe a cardboard box, another book, anything that'll
make a sound, you can make yourself a homemade bass drum. That's not too difficult. If you
don't have a bass pedal, just moving your foot is good enough to at least practice the
motions that you would use on a drum kit. Same with your left foot for the high hat
work. You can do that. And as for toms and other surfaces, you can pretty much any surface
that you can hit that'll withstand it, that'll create a sound for you that you like that
you can distinguish from the other sounds you're creating, any surface will work. So
boxes, books, folders, metallic objects, the floor, floor will work just fine. So anything
you have that will withstand beating with drum sticks is fair game. So there you go.
Homemade drums.