About Me
I'm David Bevan, I have a passion for playing drums, because of the fact I was born without my right hand I have decided to design my own drum attachment.
I originally got into drums when I was fifteen years old. I started off using duct tape to secure the stick to my arm. This developed problems because when I'd remove the duct tape I'd tear off hair and leave marks/sores on my arm.
After I discovered that I wasn’t to bad at drums I furthered my passion to come up with a drum “attachment” design. Currently it holds 5A sized sticks and some brushes/hot rods.
I have some ideas on how to develop the design to hold more sticks sizes and types, but I’ll post more information about that as I get there.
The hospital I go to for my prosthetics are so happy about helping me develop my concepts to personally produce instead of CE stamped.
Maybe in the future I can come up with something that I could share with people in a similar situation to myself.
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Sunday, 12 July 2009
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Electric Kits Vs Acoustic Kits
I'm considering buying an electric drum kit in the near future, researching into the roland drum range - hence the image. (If anyone with eletric drum knowledge, have any advice please throw it my way)
Know some of you are probably thinking.. why do that to yourself.. well mainly damage your bank balance - around £1,000 for it(price of the TD-6KX). Your thinking i'm wasting money but lets seriously think about it;
1) Headphones - play quietly or stupid hours of the morning;
2) Easy to set up and ready to play - takes less space to transport;
3) Can be leveled on the mixing desk - no chance of you drowning out anyone else;
4) XLR input, so when it comes to home recording/demos.. no hassle;
5) Download new sounds for it - making it sound like updating an ipod;
6) Probably the most lazy comment.. but doesnt require tuning; :)
7) Ghost notes are, how I would say incredible.. the dynamics, are flexible;
8) My drum attachment can reach the pads easier.
the main disadvantage of not buying one is..
1) whats the life span on it;
2) Have to buy a decent one for good response time with fast fills.
Dont know if your aware, but all products today are designed to break down... means you have to go out and buy a new one, resupplying the market.
I spoke to my friend on the weekend and he called it "plastic crap" not the V-Tour Series TD-KX .. just electrics in general. Kind of guessing hes only had a go on the low end electrics which may I add are... just ew. the response is slow, the sounds are just, flat and weak sounding.
Don't know how you other drummers feel.. but guitarits have these effects boards/pedals and they can do some really interesting stuff, and just an acoustic drum kit are limited in that respect... I'm quite open minded and I want to give it a shot.
So the point I'm getting at... instead of just rambling in a pointless fashion...
If anyone with electric drum knowledge, have any advice please throw it my way.
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Monday, 15 June 2009
Oct 08
I recorded this during Oct 08. I cant remember the date. This provides an insight into what I can roughly play. Its a bit funky. You can decide yourself when you watch it :) I have had some fairly alright comments so far. So please comment!