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How The Hell Do You Guys Practice?


Promethius

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Well, when I was 18 I soundproofed my parents 2-car garage. The walls are literally 12" thick. We built a Recording Studio out there. Of course, for the last 10 months my brother has been living in there (that asshole! Argh!) so I haven't been able to play my kit - So it's just been me practicing rudiments mostly on either an electronic ddrum snare drumpad, or a pillow.

 

 

 

 

Tim

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I live in the country and practice in my own room. My room is on the second floor in one end of the house and the kitchen and the TV room is in the other end of the house and downstairs. My closest neighbours can probably hear me playing if they are outside in their backyard but they are used to it and don

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Practice in the basement. You can barely hear it outside. If you're walking up to the house while we're playing, there's just a faint rumble, rhythm going on. I practice at 2-3am at least once a month, never ever a problem.

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When I lived at home growing up.... we lived on the edge of town... The front of our house looked like it was smack in the middle of a suburb... But walk around back, and we had a large grassy field behind us... Probably 3-5 acres.. Anyway, I always jammed out in this old barn behind our house.... It was for SURE not sound proof!! I built a little stage out there and what not... Every once in awhile I'd even build a make shift stage in the middle of that field and jam!! lol .... Of course I imagined millions of fans watching!! lol ..... Anyway... When we sold the place and moved.. I was around 18.... I figured that all the neigbors hated me cause of my playing! You could hear it from blocks and blocks away! BUT, almost all the neigbors stopped by over the period of the last week we were there to say they'd miss us..... and they ALL said they loved listening to me play as I grew up!! Said it was sad that no more music would be coming from the backyard!

 

I was shocked and realieved!

 

Anyway.....No adays I have a basement.. but you can hear it pretty well from outside... So I don't get to practice much.. I have to drive about 45 minutes to get to the place we practice....

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I just practice. I live right on Main Street and neighbors 20 feet away with a gas station across the street. When the neighbors complain, I tell em to shut the {censored} up because I never practice earlier than 11 or later than 7. The cops have showed up a few times and when they were unable to give me the sound ordinance laws I told em to {censored} off. They said that if they got another complaint that they would gimme a summons for disorderly... so I just lock my doors. They stopped coming because if my doors are locked and I can't hear em, it's pretty tough to gimme a summons for anything.

 

I am well known in town as 'That asshole near the gas station with the drums' but I gives no {censored}s.

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pads on the drums-magnificent, same feel more or less and no noise, only 20 quid. saving the neighbours not mention my own hearing.it's odd, i used to practice with ear defenders on, and when you wear them with the pads on the drums the drums sound the same as if there were no pads, as you still get a good thud out of them but with no treble whatsoever..

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