Hey, you, drummers. You have it too easy. Look at how big that practice pad of yours is. You could hit that thing with a golf ball from 200 yards out. Why don’t you give yourself a challenge for once?
Look, I totally get the idea behind the Twiggy Practice Pad. If you can pull off that 11-stroke roll on a surface area the size of a Sacagawea dollar then you’re a paradiddle champion. I guess my issue with Libor Hadrava‘s invention is that, well… it’s just a stick. One that will cost you $24.99. I mean, you probably have one of these left over after assembling that computer desk from Ikea. Maybe if there was some kind of mount or stand I could see picking up a specialty stick from the dude, but otherwise it seems like something you’d put in the “neat ideas you can build out of common household items” category.
Funnily enough, on his site Libor sells a “Precise Stick Height” bracket that actually looks like it would hold the Twiggy if the diameters lined up. I could totally see the appeal of picking one of these up from a manufacturer if it came with some better way to hold one other than clasping it with your feet or thighs.
What do you think readers? Good idea? And if so, would you buy one or just search around your house for something that does the trick?
Source: Drum
Bretton Melanson / April 15, 2014 4:24 pm
I could see it being 25 bucks if it were wrapped in practice pad rubber, but for a stick? just grab a foot of doweling from the hardward store for a couple bucks.
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Libor Hadrava / April 15, 2014 4:47 pm
Thank you Chris for posting. Exactly my point, you don’t have to buy it, make it or use whatever around and get……practicing. :-) it is a great tool and It really helps. I made it available for purchase because when you buy something you are more likely to really use it.
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I Shot J.R / April 15, 2014 10:43 pm
btw I’m selling snake oil, $78.99 a vial.
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HippieOfDeath / April 15, 2014 11:45 pm
What the actual fuck?
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Steven Demarce / April 17, 2014 6:51 pm
I feel like putting a sticker on my current pad would be so much easier. Plus, If I mess up and don’t hit the center, instead of my stick sliding down the side and me having to restart my strokes, I can just keep playing as normal.
Not a bad idea, but not a good one either.
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A.C. Riddle / April 17, 2014 7:55 pm
Or you can just put a full waterbottle on a desk and then hit that.
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Brindan Reece Eisler / April 17, 2014 8:36 pm
I think this is more geared toward marching drummers or concert band drummers. Maybe not so much metal drummers and such. I could be wrong. But I may buy one just to see.
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anaszombie / April 18, 2014 12:16 am
of course it doesn’t look like much, its a fucking stick
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Garrett McElveen / April 18, 2014 3:23 am
For people that will buy this I got some beach front prpoerty in the mohavje if you’re interested
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Henky95 / April 18, 2014 12:29 pm
i tried holding a 1,5L coke bottle between my legs and it worked just fine
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Captain Failure / April 18, 2014 7:47 pm
I’m selling Oxygen-infused hydrogen, if anyone’s interested. 750ml for $40
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mouseporn / May 1, 2014 3:33 pm
how Roosevelt of him
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