why does music have to cost a fortune

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added a cymbal stand, snare stand, and a crash cymbal today...whoo hooo....its now atleast playable, now all i need is 2 more cymbal stands and another crash and ride.

awwww yeah

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so its all set up and played it a few hours and made a few tweaks, all i need now is a 18" crash and 20"-22" ride cymbal, i miss all this fun i had and its too bad no one i know plays guitar much anymore but oh well, i need a tom rim for the 2nd tom on the bottom too but that isnt really needed.

looks like my guitar and amp are going to sit idle while i brake in these drums, figured id take a pic of the mix and match pearl export/forum drums.

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added another cymbal and stand and bought a new 16" tom head, the drum guy at guitar center talked me into trying Paiste PST 5 cymbals saying it was better than the ZBT or B8 series hands down, i already had a 16" ZXT and it sounds kinda shitty so i was hoping it would be atleast a little better.

by the looks of it, it did seem like a nicer cymbal from the get go, the lathe marks weren't as pronounced and the under side was smooth as glass unlike the ZXT, it has twice the volume and a much brighter ring to it and it doesnt require much strike to make it sound, needless to say its a damn good cymbal and sounds great.

well im excited anyways

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lol pawn shop guitars are the shizzel i got a jackson slsmg from a pawn shop for 150 gbp. steal

i dont mind paying for instruments, cus u know the craft and the skill that goes into making them.

it does piss me off though. especially, but mainly the people in music shops. most guys are fucking sound and let u play and piss around, but its the jackass's that correct you or just plain try and show you up cus theres a cute girl. i love however going into the most pretentious shop in town thats a good 30 % more than anywhere else and shredding up some pantera or dream theatre.

shit guitars are reasonably priced, but hold a great advantage in that if you can make them sound good when you do upgrade it sounds so much sweeeeter

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i have 15yrs invested playing guitar, it just doesnt do it for me anymore, it sits there months at a time untouched, i bought a new amp hoping it would inspire me to play more but i bet i turned it on less than 20 times since december, its a great amp too (Line6) has endless amounts of effects to play with, i guess i lost interest playing and i no longer play as good as i used to due from not playing it enough.

to me drums are too much fun, i always enjoyed them, now i just need a friend to jam with.

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drums are wikid man, ive only been playing for 6 years. im at the point now where i can play the music in my head i used to hear before i wanted to play. i jam with 4 diff people regularly. my teacher. my band. a bloke whose who plays wikid acoustic and im teaching the kid across the road guitar and drums. i get my drum fix there.
i gotta be honest the more i play the drums teh more i love them and drummers are really hard to find. hes awesome hes only 14 but hes like my little bro. hes come on no end inthe last few months. i can here him practicing when i smoke outside.
hes got a full pearl adn symbian set up. he got it for his birthday, only child o divorced parents. he said he played em
jamin is the best thing man, its what i live for especially when you play with people who all play differently.
at the mo my bands got a 3 guitar 2 bass 1 shit hot drummer flow. its a complete mess at times. but at others its sublime. we have a few tracks that start of in unican, break off into like a single guitar rhythmn with alternate bass.guitar rhytmn x2 then well mix it up slow it down, build it up to a unison climax. its so hard to descirbe but it fucking works. its abit of alogistical nightmare. but were all boys from back in the day so jamin comes really easy

hope that you finad a jamin partner.

peace

snow