Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

> Perry wrote: "Try lighter sticks 
> and more controlled technique."
> 
Another point of view:

> Perry is hitting (pun intended) on a good point. E-drums are not Accoustic
> drums and cannot be expected to be played in the same fashion.
> 
> When I was twelve, I picked up a used accoustic guitar and started to
> learn how to play. A year later I received an electric guitar. The
> notes/chords where the same, the number of frets were the same, but in
> playing them (the feel) was different. For me, the Edrum is a "new"
> instrument that had to be learned to be played. The techniques that I had
> taught myself on the accoustic set had to be re-taught when I got my
> e-drums last year. 
> 
> I clearly had an easier time at making the transition than say someone who
> had been playing continuously on an accoustic set and is now trying to
> jump to an E-drum set. (I had a 10 year break between accoustic and
> e-drumming sessions.) I definitely use lighter sticks and play lighter on
> the e-drum set than I ever did with the accoustic. I know this to be a
> fact. I was constantly breaking drum sticks on my accoustic set, but I am
> still using the same set of sticks that I bought with my e-drum set last
> year and they still have several years a wear and tear left in them, even
> though I typically play 1 to 1-1/2 hours 5-6 nights a week!
> 
> OGD
 
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