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One more thing you'll need to know: you'll need a big car. Also, your garage will probably be the band's practice space.

cardy31 3y ago
I played professionally while driving a Camry! A 20” kick drum and a mic for it is all you need, and that fits in the back seat of a Camry. Everything else can go in the trunk, at least with a reasonably-sized kit.
- dualboot 3y ago
  Same, but a two door '89 Grand Am with a 24" Kick drum in the front passenger seat.
  - cardy31 3y ago
    Gigging with a 24” kick drum is something I will never do
- NikolaNovak 3y ago
  One thing to note is that "big car" is not a universal classifier. To a Canadian or American, Camry is not a big car. To many Europeans, Camry is a mind boggingly MASSIVE car :->
jerpint 3y ago
Lugging drums around is the biggest pain of playing drums - set up, tear down, etc. Don’t forget packing a carpet too!
- Infernal 3y ago
  Or playing any instrument in a band that also has a drummer. I’ve never played drums but I have set up/packed up/wrangled many dozens (hundreds?) of drum kits
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- davexunit 3y ago
  That's what a backline is for! Don't love playing a different kit than my own but sure beats having to bring everything.
  - havefunbesafe 3y ago
    Exactly. If you have a solid monitor tech and in ears, you're barely going to notice the difference.
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magarnicle 3y ago
A Honda Jazz (Fit) will hold a kit easily with the back seats down, and not-so-easily with the back seats up.
- daviddaviddavid 3y ago
  I'm a gigging jazz drummer and just cause you mentioned "with the back seats down", I gotta say: I always wish there was a car that was optimized / defaulted to having the back seats down. But in a pinch, on those rare occasions where you actually have more than two people in your car, you could pop some seats up. Every car I get (currently have an Hyundai Elantra GT), I end up with the back seats down 75% of the time, and it just looks crappy. If the default mode was back-seats-down, with no big seams or gaps or unlevel parts, I'd be in heaven.
  - magarnicle 3y ago
    The Jazz's seats would fold completely flat, and I just left them like that most of the time. But if you cared about looks it wasn't the car to get anyway.
- camtarn 3y ago
  I run community drumming workshops where each participant gets a single kit drum (snare, tom or bass) strapped to them. We strip the resonant heads and mounting hardware off the drums so they nest inside each other. My Jazz (Fit) will hold enough drums to run a medium sized workshop: five bass drums, five floor toms, five rack toms, five snares, and a bag of sticks/straps/cowbells/blocks/other misc equipment. It's truly a Tardis of a car :)
davexunit 3y ago
My dad used to tell me to buy a van because I'm always hauling around drums but I never did. I could always manage to fit my 4 piece kit (with 20" deep bass drum) in any old sedan type car, including a small 03 Jetta.

cardy31 3y ago

I played professionally while driving a Camry! A 20” kick drum and a mic for it is all you need, and that fits in the back seat of a Camry. Everything else can go in the trunk, at least with a reasonably-sized kit.

dualboot 3y ago
Same, but a two door '89 Grand Am with a 24" Kick drum in the front passenger seat.
- cardy31 3y ago
  Gigging with a 24” kick drum is something I will never do
NikolaNovak 3y ago
One thing to note is that "big car" is not a universal classifier. To a Canadian or American, Camry is not a big car. To many Europeans, Camry is a mind boggingly MASSIVE car :->

jerpint 3y ago

Lugging drums around is the biggest pain of playing drums - set up, tear down, etc. Don’t forget packing a carpet too!

Infernal 3y ago
Or playing any instrument in a band that also has a drummer. I’ve never played drums but I have set up/packed up/wrangled many dozens (hundreds?) of drum kits
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davexunit 3y ago
That's what a backline is for! Don't love playing a different kit than my own but sure beats having to bring everything.
- havefunbesafe 3y ago
  Exactly. If you have a solid monitor tech and in ears, you're barely going to notice the difference.
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magarnicle 3y ago

A Honda Jazz (Fit) will hold a kit easily with the back seats down, and not-so-easily with the back seats up.

daviddaviddavid 3y ago
I'm a gigging jazz drummer and just cause you mentioned "with the back seats down", I gotta say: I always wish there was a car that was optimized / defaulted to having the back seats down. But in a pinch, on those rare occasions where you actually have more than two people in your car, you could pop some seats up. Every car I get (currently have an Hyundai Elantra GT), I end up with the back seats down 75% of the time, and it just looks crappy. If the default mode was back-seats-down, with no big seams or gaps or unlevel parts, I'd be in heaven.
- magarnicle 3y ago
  The Jazz's seats would fold completely flat, and I just left them like that most of the time. But if you cared about looks it wasn't the car to get anyway.
camtarn 3y ago
I run community drumming workshops where each participant gets a single kit drum (snare, tom or bass) strapped to them. We strip the resonant heads and mounting hardware off the drums so they nest inside each other. My Jazz (Fit) will hold enough drums to run a medium sized workshop: five bass drums, five floor toms, five rack toms, five snares, and a bag of sticks/straps/cowbells/blocks/other misc equipment. It's truly a Tardis of a car :)

davexunit 3y ago

My dad used to tell me to buy a van because I'm always hauling around drums but I never did. I could always manage to fit my 4 piece kit (with 20" deep bass drum) in any old sedan type car, including a small 03 Jetta.