It all started when I was in a metal band. I used to do lead singing ( and screaming ) and played guitar. I was always amazed at how drummers could play so quickly with their feet! It was so cool to see a guy play faster with his feet than I could with my hands. ( this is before I could ever play drums )

So I started messing around with my drummers sticks, just doing rolls and para diddles and I got hooked. We went to this youth group, and afterwards we would go outside and play on the AC vents with sticks, it sounded like a drumline or something. Very tribal sounding. Well I started getting behind the kit, playing basic patterns and beats and stuff. And I started to realize, I can play the drums! I was hooked. Just the pulse of the kick, the snap of the snare, and the tone of the toms! Just feeling every tone, every beat. Then I got behind an Iron Cobra and wow....I started playing with Unholy Confessions from A7X and Killswitch engage stuff....well one day my buddy let me take his pedal home, and I set it up to where it would hit my bed and I would play on books on top of the bed. ( lame, I know ) When I had to give the pedal back I realized I needed my own, just to play in my room, on the side of my bed. The first one I tried was a mapex single chain pedal. It was okay, but there wasn't the speed and accuracy of the a double chain pedal. Well my local dealer who I'de been buying from for years and spent at least 10K there was a dealer for Mapex and Yamaha, and I didn't really like the mapex so I thought, I'll go with yamaha. And like alot of people, I thought "yamaha makes motorcycles...not drums" but I was WRONG.

So I bought the pedal. I didn't even own my own kit, and I had a double pedal. heck, I didn't even have a pair of sticks! haha. So I started playing at church's. And sitting in with bands here and there. They had a kit, I just brought the dragon! So eventually I was thinking to myself....I need a kit, so I bought a verve 5 piece bucket pack. It was okay, maple and all. And after having used the Dragon for so long and being head over heels for it, I thought to myself "if their pedals are this good, their kits have to be worth something". Well the guy at the local store ( Mr. B! ) was a big yamaha supporter and told me all the qualities and pros of a yamaha kit. Showed me videos of guys like david garibaldi and other greats who played Yamaha. And to be honest, I was a hardcore Tama fan. But I sat behind a kit and it SANG. I had never played a kit to that point that sounded so good for the price! The kick was epic, the toms were VERY tonal and pure, and the stock snare was perfect. So I came into some money, went to my local shop and pointed to the one stacked up in the corner. And ever since then I have been a HUGE supporter of yamaha. From the company, to the product, they are awsome. They make a quality kit for a great price. Since then I have played ALOT of kits, I've played many churchs, shows, festivals, I have played alot of drums in alot of places, and yamaha still sticks out. The hardware, the shells, the pedals....everything yamaha drums, I've fallen in love with and will stick with them for as long as I play drums....And now I wear the pitch forks with pride on my kick.....all because of the dragon....

I wanna know how you guys came to your kit/brand or whatever. I don't care how short or long the story, I wanna know. And if some prick comes in here and says "nice novel fag" who cares. To hell with'em. This is a place to talk drums...so let's talk drums!!!








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Yamaha Stage Custom
Sabian AA, HH, Sig, XS20 - Remo/Evans
Pro mark - Yamaha/Dixon Hardware
www.myspace.com/blessedblack

wow thats a pretty good story. so how long ago was that?

man i don't even know how my story would go. started with ludwig, then tama, then Pacific, now Pearl. i've just always been around drums, i've been playing for as long as i can remember. i've always loved the drums.








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PDP, Tama, and Pearl Drums
DW, Pearl, and Gibraltar Hardware
Sabian, Zildjian, and Saluda Cymbals

www.myspace.com/EOTEband

man, you're lucky. I've been playing for....maybe 4 years? But you have a head over me for being around it for so long. I wish I would have picked'em up earlier.








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www.myspace.com/blessedblack

i've only been serious on the kit for about 5. i've just always been in drumline, our high school band consists of mainly middle school. so now i'm almost done with high school and i have had a lot of time on the marching snare and quads. it really helps out though being familiar with drums ahead of time though.








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DW, Pearl, and Gibraltar Hardware
Sabian, Zildjian, and Saluda Cymbals

www.myspace.com/EOTEband

You're absolutely right. See that's how it was with guitar for me. My uncle was a player and that's what got me started.








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Sabian AA, HH, Sig, XS20 - Remo/Evans
Pro mark - Yamaha/Dixon Hardware
www.myspace.com/blessedblack

I got my first set when I was 11, about 19 years ago. It was an academy set, so I didnt own it.








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Metal Rules!

That's cool bro. I wanna see some pics of your kit man! whatcha playin?








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Sabian AA, HH, Sig, XS20 - Remo/Evans
Pro mark - Yamaha/Dixon Hardware
www.myspace.com/blessedblack

So a few years back, my friend picked up a guitar for his birthday. He was talented at it and stuck with it and got very good. I thought, "hey, if he can play an instrument, so can i". So, I begged my mom to get me a pulse drumset and she finally did for christmas one year. I worked to get a gibraltar single-chain double pedal just to learn a few little things but I wasn't really into it. Back then, I was really into like Green Day and The Offspring and really had no use for it until a little down the road when I got into The Bled, Shadows Fall and Underoath about, half a year later. So, one day, my friend asks me if I wanna join a band with him, a local metalcore band, so I did and I sucked horribly and all during that time I got involved in a church. So, I left the metalcore band to play at the church and got really into worship music and started to get real groovy with it and I liked playing it a lot.

However, one day, while i was at my current girlfriends house, I thought to listen to this band a friend had told me about, this band was Through The Eyes Of The Dead. They were like something I had never heard before. I couldn't exactly make out the lyrics but the sheer intensity, pain, fight, and brutality of the music just sparked something in me. I decided it was time to start learning some metal.

I stuck with the church band and really got involved in the church and stuff while me and the guitarist for the church decided to start our own little band. We brought this girl Ashley in that was really good at shrill screams and we decided we were gonna cover like old Underoath and stuff. About that time, I had sold my Pulse set (around 2 and a half years later) and convinced my mom to upgrade me to a 4 piece PDP FXR set as it was birch and a very beautiful color and had all the things i was looking for at the time. Things then changed, when Ashley decided to bring in a new guitarist, Danny. Danny is a dude into the heavier parts of metal like Lamb Of God and Job For A Cowboy and stuff (well it was heavier at the time) so I began learning that stuff.

Then I basically fell out of the church, gained a new vocalist;kyle, kicked out ashley, moved around in another town for a bit in different practice spots gaining and loosing band members (most of which very talented) and fast-forwarding about a year and a half, I'm here.

I now listen to death metal, deathcore, black metal, tech death, etc. I am able to play most of it and have hit speeds upwards of 280 BPM with my feet and around 270 with my hands. I have a unique technique I have never really seen anyone use. I can fit into a lot of genres, some better than others. My band mates are, the original Danny, original Kyle, and our latest member;Corey. I have had a ton of good times with Danny and Kyle and we're proud to have been a trio for over a year and a half playing shows all around west Fl.

For the latest of news, in this last week, I've gotten the go-ahead from Danny and Kyle to join my friend Sams band; Beneath The Remains where I'll be shredding in excess of 250 BPM.








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Hi, I'm Brian. I play/use such brands as: Mapex, Axis, DDrum, Yamaha, Pro-Mark, Vic-Firth, Sabian, Paiste, Zildjian, Saluda, Evans, and DW.

Kevin's the man

Hey dbkman!!I am like you...I play the guitar now for 4 years and i am in a band called "Dark Shadows"...One time we went for rehersal in a studio and i sat behind the Yamaha Recording Custom's and i played 1-2 grooves and i really enjoyed this!!!My friend (the drummer) also shew me some "exercises" and more grooves..

When i came home i was looking to buy drums through the internet!!!I was crazy, i didn't know what to buy and then i become a proud member of DML!!!

And then i made many tones of topics (Yamaha or Tama superstar),(Studio,fusion kits etc)they blocked many of my topics and after i understood that i can't work with this.

Now with the help of all DML members i am going for my first purchase of a drumset!!

Thank you all!!!

Hehe thats interesting

I picked up some sticks at school and tapped away for hours when i was 10.

I guess i brought a premier kit because their factory is 5 miles down the roads from me. Plus i love the sound of it when i found it.

I guess i was conned with my zildjians, as now i love paiste.

I got and axis pedal basically because i could. £80 barely used.








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Tama Drums
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ProMark Sticks
<s>Remo</s> Evans Skins

Howepirate, Awsome story, same to the rest of you guys! I love to hear other peoples story








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Sabian AA, HH, Sig, XS20 - Remo/Evans
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well let's see man, pretty much my dad..
he was a "rockstar" i guess you could say, local guitar prodigy
witch he is really amazing..
when i was little i was always at his friends houses watching them play and jam
so when they'd break i'd always go sit behind the john bonham replica set (haha)
of course my dad wanting me to play guitar at the time bought me a guitar
witch wasn't a big deal, their was always 1000000 guitars at the house already!
so one day i woke up (i was 5 at the time) and their was a little yamaha mini drumset set up in the livingroom and it was wonderful!!!
so i bashed and beat the hell out of the thing hahaha
after that got destroyed he got me an "upgrade" to a cb kit and some crap zildjians (when i was 8 ) i believe that's the time i started playing in school as well
entry level snare stuff, blah blah blah...then jazz band came!!!
according to my music teacher i played the solo of solos my seventh grade year!!!
hahaha looking back now it was probably horrid
but oh well, it was incredible then standing ovations!
from about 9 to 13 i raced dirtbikes too, it was my "second passion"
but when i was 13 i took a berm to fast and snapped my acl and mcl, and cracked
my kneecap in half so i was out for awhile, to say the least..
i decided to take a break, i sold both of my racing series honda CRs
my dad took me out to get what i now have, my beautiful pacific LX limited series
honey amber lacquer finish all maple shells...all around awesome kit
i joined drumline in highschool by sophomore year i was section leader and tenor player played tenors until i got out of there and play drums everyday
it's my life, i don't even want to know what life would be like if i never started playing drums it's literally all i know, music is all i've ever been around
so i got a pretty early start...and i wouldn't have it any other way

Hey guy, this is an interest topic. I'm not even sure where to start.

All I remember is when I was younger, I saw a clip on TV of Animal and Buddy Rich. After that, I was always taping on stuff. I must have been around 5 or 6 at the time. My mother is oriental, so we always had chopsticks and that's what I would use. Then when I was in second grade, we had a talent show and one of the guys who was always cool to me, played "Jump" by Van Halen and I was hooked.

I didn't really get a chance to get started until I was 10. We got asked to try out for different instruments and they liked my timing, so I was chosen. I got my first kit at 12 which was a antique 26" bass, a snare, 1 rack tom, 1 hi hat stand and set of hats, and a crash/ride cymbal that mounted on the bass. I loved that kit and trashed the hell out of it. I think I sold it of $50.00 to by my Pearl kit. I got that kit when I was 13 or 14 because it was the 80's and most of the big name guys had Pearls and Paiste cymbals, so thats what I got. They where shit and sounded like crap, I didn't know how to tune them and nobody really showed me anything. I got rid of that kit when I was 16 and bought a better one, another Pearl but with Zidjian cymbals. Stared playing with a few bands and after a few shows and about a year later, it was trashed beyond recognition. Won't tell you how I got rid of that one.

I then got a Ludwig kit before graduating High school but my daughter was born right after that. I had that set for almost 4 years, when my ex-wife told me it had to go. Fast forward 10 years, and you get my new wife. We bought a house and she knew I wanted to play again, but we really didn't have the money, (our wedding was fast approaching). About 6 months before the wedding, things got really tight and we had a small bonus check come for something. I wanted a set really bad an we went and looked at this old Pacific set that was all beat up and sitting down in a nasty basement. The cymbals where all broken, the double pedal was shot, but I loved it... She told me we couldn't get it because of the money issues though and I was crushed.

The next week was hell for me, and things got worse as time went on. The next Sat. I had a class for 8 hours and came home was tired cranky and she had a show to work. She called me up and asked me to stick around an help her unload the van, even though I had to drive and hour to go pick up my kids. By the time she got home, I was pissed as hell and walked out the door to let her have it, when she handed me a not that said "Here is your wedding present, but just a little early, Love you me". I think I must have had the most confusing look, but finally noticed a gleaming object in the van. I open the back door and there was the Pacific set I wanted so badly. I was speechless and still am most of the time when I sit behind it. I've now up-dated almost everything on the kit, but I've never gotten rid of anything from the original set and never will.

That's my story in a nut shell. Hope I didn't bore you.








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SilverFox HR Sticks
Medicine Man rebuilt PDP FS Snare
PDP Drums
Saluda Cymbals
DW and Pearl Hardware
www.myspace.com/gostranger

^^^

haha awww that was....really really really........cute

Howepirate wrote:

So a few years back, my friend picked up a guitar for his birthday. He was talented at it and stuck with it and got very good. I thought, "hey, if he can play an instrument, so can i". So, I begged my mom to get me a pulse drumset and she finally did for christmas one year. I worked to get a gibraltar single-chain double pedal just to learn a few little things but I wasn't really into it. Back then, I was really into like Green Day and The Offspring and really had no use for it until a little down the road when I got into The Bled, Shadows Fall and Underoath about, half a year later. So, one day, my friend asks me if I wanna join a band with him, a local metalcore band, so I did and I sucked horribly and all during that time I got involved in a church. So, I left the metalcore band to play at the church and got really into worship music and started to get real groovy with it and I liked playing it a lot.

However, one day, while i was at my current girlfriends house, I thought to listen to this band a friend had told me about, this band was Through The Eyes Of The Dead. They were like something I had never heard before. I couldn't exactly make out the lyrics but the sheer intensity, pain, fight, and brutality of the music just sparked something in me. I decided it was time to start learning some metal.

I stuck with the church band and really got involved in the church and stuff while me and the guitarist for the church decided to start our own little band. We brought this girl Ashley in that was really good at shrill screams and we decided we were gonna cover like old Underoath and stuff. About that time, I had sold my Pulse set (around 2 and a half years later) and convinced my mom to upgrade me to a 4 piece PDP FXR set as it was birch and a very beautiful color and had all the things i was looking for at the time. Things then changed, when Ashley decided to bring in a new guitarist, Danny. Danny is a dude into the heavier parts of metal like Lamb Of God and Job For A Cowboy and stuff (well it was heavier at the time) so I began learning that stuff.

Then I basically fell out of the church, gained a new vocalist;kyle, kicked out ashley, moved around in another town for a bit in different practice spots gaining and loosing band members (most of which very talented) and fast-forwarding about a year and a half, I'm here.

I now listen to death metal, deathcore, black metal, tech death, etc. I am able to play most of it and have hit speeds upwards of 280 BPM with my feet and around 270 with my hands. I have a unique technique I have never really seen anyone use. I can fit into a lot of genres, some better than others. My band mates are, the original Danny, original Kyle, and our latest member;Corey. I have had a ton of good times with Danny and Kyle and we're proud to have been a trio for over a year and a half playing shows all around west Fl.

For the latest of news, in this last week, I've gotten the go-ahead from Danny and Kyle to join my friend Sams band; Beneath The Remains where I'll be shredding in excess of 250 BPM.

Are you sure you can hit singles at 280? I dont know anyone from any band that can play that fast. including derek roddy or george kolias. I think you should try hitting 16ths at 280 with a metronome. you probly think your playing faster than you are.








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