{"id":834,"date":"2025-11-19T03:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:46:06","slug":"low-volume-portable-drum-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/low-volume-portable-drum-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Volume Portable Drum Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night I scored a Pearl piccolo snare off FB Marketplace for $120.  Pretty pumped about that.  I see people playing break beats on YouTube and I immediately think: I want to do that!  But.. I&#8217;m far from being able to, though I have the snare for it now.  Still, the piccolo will make this a more portable kit.  Because, on another YouTube video in my feed, I saw a click bait-y one about what makes you a better than average drummer.  And one suggestion stood out to me:  you perform publicly.  It struck me as something I should strive for.  The best option I have for that is my local open mic.  I&#8217;m going to set this kit up on the stage and volunteer myself as the house percussionist.  We&#8217;ll see how that goes, lol.  I&#8217;m nervous already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and I also got a Meinl Bass Box.  It sounds great!  It&#8217;s not too loud for the indoor open mic, and will also help with portability.  I also ordered some El Cheapo brand LV hi-hats from a major online retaiIer.  And I&#8217;ll mute the snare with layers of fabric.  So I present to you, my low volume portable drum it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LowVolume_PortableKit-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LowVolume_PortableKit-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LowVolume_PortableKit-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LowVolume_PortableKit-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LowVolume_PortableKit-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LowVolume_PortableKit-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also logged another hour of practice, including 4000 single strokes with my left hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I scored a Pearl piccolo snare off FB Marketplace for $120. Pretty pumped about that. I see people playing break beats on YouTube and I immediately think: I want to do that! But.. I&#8217;m far from being able to, though I have the snare for it now. Still, the piccolo will make this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drumming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}