This can be extremely confusing and drummers have been known to travel huge distances in order to get the best discount.

Reductions of up to 40-50 per cent are not unknown in the USA. It can help you make some valid comparisons and maybe read between the lines, and then it’s up to you.īecause of price cutting it’s sometimes difficult to see where the budget lines end and the middle lines start.

The choices of drums, cymbals and hardware are immense and this book can only tell you so much. Take every opportunity to study the gear, go along to drum stores and trade fairs and gather all the information and brochures you can. Whatever the case, you’ve started to do some market research. You may have saved enough to start with a budget kit, or you may be looking for a better quality kit secondhand. You will probably already have idols you’ve seen on the TV and may know the type of drums and cymbals they use. Many of us spend years slavering over the drums as an object of lust before actually getting our first kit. Then again, I also remember being impressed at an extremely young age by seeing a snare drum in an amateur group, all gleaming white pearl and chrome and making this extraordinary noise. I come from the generation that was turned on to pop music by The Beatles, and I blame Ringo Starr for awakening my lifelong passion for drums.

SECTION 1 THE BASICS HOW TO BUY DRUMS AND BUDGET KITS

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