A good starter thread for any Brand New Forum.

I'm Paul Marshall from N Ireland. I have been building Drumdojo for about a decade and I'm delighted to launch this new Percussion Forum _base_d around almost a half a million words of content.

On to my drums

My #1 kit is by Spiritdrums of Australia. Its gorgeous (reviewed on site)

20x16
14x12
12x10
10x8
14x6.5

My #2 Kit is a Pearl Masters Custom in Piano Lacquer Black. Same diameters as the Spirit Set maybe a little longer in the shell depth.

I've had most of my cymbals for 25+ years, old A & K zildjians, some sabians plus a few authentic and trash items.

I use, endorse and occasionally design for Protection Racket Cases and I really do believe they are the dogs!

As well as running Drumdojo, I run Bodojo, the bodhran site, they are intended to have a common visual theme btw!

Don't start me talking about bodhrans

I play with Different Drums of Ireland where my main instrument is the djembe although until recently I played basic kick, snare & hats along with that.

I'm an instrument designer with my own small manufacturing business and I occasionally undertake custom design work for private clients such as Stomp or for the Movies. I'll play anything as a percussion instrument. I'm playing almost 40 years although not yet 45 and love my drumming.

Let's see, Started in 5th grade with the Bass drum, snares, crash cymbals. Moved up in high school to timpani, quad- and tri-toms (marching band). In our praise band now I play timpani (when we can borrow them from a local school, man those things are expensive), congas, bongos, djembe, bodhran (top-end and neo) and various aux pieces as required.

I never did get the hang of both arms and both legs working on different jobs at the same time, so I don't play the set at all.

Hey Bill,

welcome to Drumdojo Forums,

Yours is the first member post. That's gotta mean something :) LOL (pops champagne - cheers!)

I'm sure it all looks pretty familiar to you. I hope it works as well.

Great that we share our drumming interest beyond the bodhran; I think becomes part of who we are at an identity level after x number of years. I love it and feel like I'm I'm only just scratching the surface.

Enjoy the site and please report back any faults. I'm sure I created a forum for that.

The single login is coming - along with some very very cool multiple site management software. It's spendy but should make my admin a lot easier to manage. I've a ticket with them about version compatibility.

One login will get you membership and benefts on every site in the group. Very cool and much easier for a regular visitor to navigate with integral menus.

oops slipped into admin...

Cheers and welcome

Namaste to all, i study tabla in classical training since 10 years from a great Benares musical family.

i start one years ago to study drum kit,and stick control by myself, im trying to translate my knowledgement into western drum kit.
in a "strong" situation like dj collaboration , i like to play Dhol drum.

i love and listen all kind of music and any kind of percussion, electronics also.

Great thanks to Mr Pete Lockett for his great information in percussion learning.(i got more from him in my drumset playing)

Hi Tablaji

welcome to drumdojo. Pete has been a great friend and supporter of the site for many years, we are very grateful to have his input.

I too play dhol drum, I learned from my friend Johnny Kalsi who is amazing. It is very different to play than other drums because of the angles needed to hit it, but the chaal rhythm is infectious, I use the patterns often in drumset and irish bodhran.

If the site members can help you or if you can help others, please do not hesitate to join in. This is a community of people helping and learning from each other.

The forum is very new, only a few weeks, so it will take a little time to gather momentum but it will come.

Welcome, I hope that your drumdojo experience becomes better and better.

Paul

hi Paul, much pleasure to meet you and thank for guest me.
you made a great work in building this web site.
greetings from italy!

dhi--na --ke- ke--ta -gedhina

jhummar