Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Richard,

Your technique may change with electronic drums.
The bounce from the pads is good and you will be able to do 
double/triple strokes, buzz rolls etc, The pads are small so your 
accuracy improves, you can gets the pads physically realy close 
together so you can move around the toms a lot easier than on an 
accoustic kit.
One thing that may suffer is your power, you dont need to hit pads 
that hard and so you dont, Because you can get a huge kick drum sound 
from a light tap with the beater my bass drum speed has improved, but 
I know I would not be able to play as fast on an accoutic kit, 
because i dont have the power and speed.

But because you can practice anytime, you will get better.

Re silent practice, the pads may be quiet, but you will still get 
thump from the kick , especially if you are in a room with a wooden 
floor, and this thump will travel around your house. If you can set 
up in a ground floor room with a concrete floor, you get much less .


Cheers
Adam

--- In DTXpress@y..., daftasabrushything@y... wrote:
> Guys,

The main thing is 
> that I should be able to practice with headphones, like now (9.15 
> p.m.) with the kids in bed. My main worry was that I'd somehow not 
be 
> learning properly or that my technique, such as it's likely to be, 
> would be not suitable for accoustic drums. At least I know now that 
> other people have been in the same position and survived.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard