The Studio and Equipment

The studio has been designed to make drumming accessible to as many people as possible. Equipped with two electronic drum kits that can be played through either headphones or an amplifier, lessons can be easily recorded by hooking the drum kits up to the computer based studio, running both Ableton and Garage Band. This allows students to easily play along to backing tracks and record their performances and measure their progress, without damaging their hearing or fighting to hear music over the volume of an acoustic drum kit. During the lesson all lesson material can be viewed on a 28 inch monitor in front of the student, doing away with annoying page turns, squinting and pieces of paper flying all over the place. Cameras used to shoot videos for the Journeys In Rhythm video course can also be used to record sections of the lesson, or if the student wishes, the entire lesson, for future reference and practice at home. Using the PracticeSpace app which is offered for free to every student, these videos and the supporting lesson content can be easily shared and stored for future reference. Take a look at the videos below to get a tour of the studio and see the electronic kits in action, and how easy it is to record your performance using our computer based studio.

The Benefits of an Electronic Drum Kit

Lessons are taught on Electronic drum kits for several reasons, but the big one, you guessed it, is NOISE! The biggest challenge to any drummer when learning and practicing is keeping the neighbours happy, and electronic drum kits go a long way towards achieving this. But it is not just about keeping things quieter. There are numerous benefits to practicing and playing on electronic drum kits. Here are a few below.

Of course number 1 is the VOLUME. This is way easier to control on an electronic drum kit, not just keeping the neighbours happier, but also protecting our valuable hearing and preventing noise exhaustion.

Sticking with noise, unless you have a big soundproof room at home, it is likely that when you purchase a drum kit of your own, it will be an electronic one, so as to keep the neighbours and family happy. By having lessons on an electronic drum kit, this means you can learn and practice on a similar, if not the same, instrument and maintain familiarity. You can even have lessons on the specifics of an electronic drum kit and all it's extra capabilities.

I promise this is the last one about noise. There are loads of benefits to electronic drum kits beyond noise control, but I would like to point out that some people can be extremely sensitive to loud noises, making learning the drums almost impossible. Not with electronic drum kits! For students with extreme sensitivity to noise, volume can be controlled with greater ease, so as to make lessons more comfortable and enjoyable.

It is so easy to connect a drum kit to a computer based studio now, and record drums without any of the time consuming nightmares that recording an acoustic instrument creates. Using recording software, known as a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), lessons and performances can be easily recorded for analysis and posterity, You can even take the recordings home with you.

Electronic kits are much better for remote lessons, should a student be unable to attend the studio for a lesson.

Modern music is ever increasingly relying on electronic sounds. Why not learn with sounds that we are familiar with?

Check out the videos below for further benefits and explorations of electronic drum kits, including demos of the Roland TD27 and the Alesis Surge Mesh that lessons are conducted on.

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