Electronic Drums

That Yamaha kit will suffice if your main concern is to rehearse and develop skills. If you ever get tired of the 32 kit sounds (and you will), try getting a copy of addictive drums (you will need midi). It does not replace a real kit but it will greatly expand your range of sounds. 

I have a Roland TD-3 (similar to the yamaha) that I use to trigger sounds from a sampler - or for the purpose of rehearsing in the building I live in. 

hope you can get it up to wherever you are sooner than later so you can start beating it.


Edited by machinemusic - February 24 2010 at 17:22

Good news: I finally purchased my kit!!

Bad news: I won't be able to play it again for at least another 5 months (had to leave it at my parents house).

After much searching on Kijiji, I was able to meet up with a seller in Toronto while I was in the area for the holidays.  For $800 Canadian dollars, I was able to purchase a Yamaha DTXplorer electronic drum kit.  Essentially a beginner's kit with some limitations, but I can always upgrade parts down the line if I remain interested.  It is almost in mint condition and came with the following:

- Acoustic Authority A-3640 3-piece speaker system
- Sennheiser HD500 fusion headphones
- an additional cymbal (Yamaha PCY10)
- Pacific drum throne
- Vic Firth Hickory American Classic sticks


A few reasons why I decided not to bring it with me:
1) I didn't want to spend a fortune shipping it up here
2) It would be too heavy and expensive for me to fly up with the kit even if I left the speakers at my parent's house
3) To eliminate a potential distraction while studying

However, I did purchase a practice pad to at least get a good feel for working with drum sticks (never really drummed before) and to learn and practice some of the rudiments. 

I just got $210!!  It will go towards my slowly-building drumkit fund. 

cool kit

Cool kit.
Do you find that by using actual shells the kit has better response?
I'm also curious about things like snare sounds. A good drummer can get an amazing array of sounds out of the drum by the way it's played, same with cymbals. How does an electronic kit deal with these subtleties? I know some drummers prefer acoustic cymbals on their electronic kits for this reason.

That's so weird. I'm also thinking about the same thing. I'm not a drummer but I am an engineer/producer and write lyrics. I have these musical ideas in my head and Iwork with a very talented composer/keyboardist who has agreed to help me put together an album. I'm hoping to use the kit to lay down rhythm tracks so that he can get a sense of what I imagine the songs to be. I'd probably have to do it in sections, snare and kick first, tom rolls then cymbals. Not the best right way or even the right way but I know my 'musical thoughts' are far superior to any actual playing I could do at one time. I'll be watching this thread closely.

http://www.roland.com/products/en/TD-9KX/

Edited by Keppa4v - September 04 2009 at 00:28