My son has started taking percussion at his middle school, and after messing around on a friend’s acoustic kit he is now talking about wanting a full drum kit. An electronic kit would work better for our house due to space limitations and the fact that he can use headphones when practice would disturb the rest of the house.
The Alesis Nitro Mesh looks like it would fit into our budget comfortably, and would like to get some opinions as to whether or not it’s worth the price. Please keep in mind that we are not looking to connect the kit to the computer for any purposes, just something to help my son learn the coordination needed to play a full kit and keep him interested in playing the instrument.
Thanks in advance.
I bought a Nitro mesh kit for my nephew who was learner. Having played it a few times, I'd say that is was ideal for a kid starting out it's low cost, compact and is easy to use.
I would suggest getting an acoustic kit and put rubber muffling pads on it some of the time. I think it is very important that he have some periods of time practicing an acoustic kit.
I use electronic drums to practice because I already can transfer that technique to acoustic.
I agree with Gordon and somewhat with Uncle Kev on this one. The problem with getting an eKit first is that when you hit an acoustic drum incorrectly it sounds terrible. When you hit an edrum incorrectly, it still fires off a great sounding drum. I'd love to hear a drummers story who started on e's. If there are any. I would think it would be very difficult to go to acoustics after learning only on E's. But I could be wrong. Another issue with cheap e's is that if he's a teen, he's going to end up to playing with others. Acoustic kits owns the room. E kits are a slave to the pa(and most teens have crappy pa's lol)