Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Yup, I've got that covered!  I tap the bar pad rhythmically during 
the chorus to get a tambourine sound. So I'm actually playing 
something while the kit song plays everything else for me.  ...The 
other guys in the band like it, too, because the metronome keeps 'em 
playing the song real tight!
I doubt anybody's going to sue me if I'm not actually playing. I've 
played three gigs with this kit now, and I haven't had anybody come 
up close to see what I'm doing. Most people seem to stand a long way 
back - and then come up when it's all over and say "that thing sounds 
like a real kit!"

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> Hey Nick,
> 
> The strategy is ingenious, but make sure that you aren't subject to 
> Milli Vanilli legislation. Judging from legal precedent in this 
> brave new world of live performance, however, you should be able to 
> avoid prosecution if you play at least something on your kit, once 
> in a while, as the metronome takes the lead. Barring that, a 
> disclaimer such as, "Pay no attention to the drummer behind the 
> electronic kit," or something to that effect, may be in order. You 
> can write it in print too small to notice.
> 
> Ed
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Carroll" <njcarroll56@y...> 
> wrote:
> > I know I'm late with this suggestion, I've only just caught up 
> with 
> > the question ... but there's a song with a very fast hi-hat I 
play 
> > with my country band - "You're Gonna Love Me Some Day". I'm sure 
> an 
> > experienced drummer could manage it, but my relatively 
> inexperienced 
> > wrists get very sore when trying to keep pace. It's too damn 
fast. 
> > Using both hands kinda made it sound less smooth, a little lop-
> sided.
> > So, as it was a straight beat timing (not shuffle), I worked out 
> that 
> > I could get my metronome to count out that rhythm, and all I had 
> to 
> > do was change the metronome sounds to match the hi-hat sound.  I 
> > created a new main song, and stored the metronome timing to it, 
> also 
> > adding a few other things in.  And now, whenever we go to play 
the 
> > song, all I have to do is hit a pad to get the song going and I 
> just 
> > mime playing the kit.  I produce perfect timing and nobody except 
> the 
> > band needs to know!
> > 
> > --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Sakamoto" <sakamotj@y...> 
> wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > >    I was wondering if there is some "trick" to doing a type of 
> > double 
> > > time on the high hat.  There is a song by 311, called "Amber" 
> and 
> > the 
> > > high hat sounds very different than most songs I've heard.  My 
> > friend 
> > > says he hears this high hat beat alot in reggae songs...In 
order 
> to 
> > > duplicate that, assuming you don't use 2 hands, is there any 
> > trick?  
> > > It kinda sounds like tik-kit tik-kit tik-kit..
> > > 
> > > Right now, I'm pounding(not literally....;)) away on the HH on 
> the 
> > > DTXpressII, but it doesn't sound quite right.  Wondering if it 
> > might 
> > > be something you can only do on a real HH?
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > Jon