{"id":459,"date":"2008-09-22T13:51:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=459"},"modified":"2008-09-22T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:51:50","slug":"new-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"New drums"},"content":{"rendered":"

After many months of attempting to finish the drum career in Rock Band<\/em>, I finally did it this weekend, reclaiming a whopping 90 Gamerscore in the process. The problem was Iron Maiden’s “Run to the Hills” — there was something about that rhythm that utterly baffled me. Turns out I was playing the riff too slowly and my kicks were on the wrong beat. Even when I figured it out, it took me two hours of intense practice and retries to pull it off.<\/p>\n

Part of why I decided “that’s it, this ends now” was the arrival this lovely beast last week:<\/p>\n

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That’s the Ion Drum Rocker for which I sold my acoustic drum kit<\/a> a few weeks ago. I sold my barely-used Pearl Rhythm Traveler kit with cymbals and a little extra hardware for a very fair $300 — and got what you see here for the exact same amount. (I have a third cymbal coming which was an extra $50).<\/p>\n

So far , I love the electronic kit. It came with the Xbox 360 controller brain and it works great in both RB games (and will work in GHWT <\/em>and Rock Revolution<\/em> in “five zone compatibility mode” instead of those games’ native six- and seven-zone settings) but I picked up a used Alesis D4 drum brain (another $150) so I can use this as a real electronic drum kit, too. I will need to find a hi-hat pedal somewhere, since the Drum Rocker lacks one. But I will arguably use this more than my “real” drums and I would like to get back into lessons if I can figure out how to make time appear out of thin air.<\/p>\n

And thanks to headphones, I can play at similarly low volumes the way I did with the Rhythm Traveler. Or I can, you know, hook it up to my guitar amp. Or…my PA system, if I really hate the neighbors. Luckily, one is a drummer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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