How hard is it to play the drums?

[Masterman]

As the title says, im just wondering if it is extremely difficult, i might want to give it a try, keep in mind i will be playing punk rock

 

[Pepsi90919]

I've been playing steady for 3 years and I'm always picking stuff up.


It's easy to do basic stuff at first, yes. Punk rock will take you a while because it's very fast.

 

[Masterman]

Alright and can anybody recommend some drums, im looking at this pair thats like 329 bux new on ebay

 

[XHuskY]

for me, it's so fvckin hard!! I tried for a few months..and gave up. I went back to my guitar..a lot easier, i think

 

[flot]

This may or may not seem helpful, but I bought a Yamaha electronic "Drum kit" which was a big black plastic thing with I think 7 pads on it... it was about $250-300. You can assign different drum "sounds" to different pads. This is halfway between "toy" and "real drum" - I was reading reviews on the web and it looked like lots of amateur drummers use them to practice and play around.

It was actually pretty cool. Lets you screw around and practice without making TOO much noise or TOO big a fool of yourself. Hehehe. I was practicing by listening to the drums through headphones, then cranking up the stereo. Even so, I think I ended up making some pretty decnet noise just banging the hell out of the pads... Was actually a lot of fun. BUT... unfortunately, it was crap quality wise. I think the model was DD-50 or something like that. It actually has some internal flaw, the first unit I got was dead, and a friend had the same experience. BUT yamaha has released a new line (which is silver plastic, and supposedly improved electronics) that presumably would address this flaw. My 2nd unit started getting flaky after about 3 weeks so I returned it. But I'd definitely consider getting the new model...

 

[Burnt]

Drums are fun...you need to make sure you have good hand/feet cordination, so you can do a pattern with your feet while hitting the rest with you hands. Punk beats can kinda get boring if you're just playing by yourself, but it's fun as hell to play with a band.

 

[Masterman]

bump, anybody else got some advice or input?