I'm a beginner. I know nothing about drums but I thought they are cool so I did some research. Reviews & videos mention this set as being good for beginners for the price. I'll probably never be very good. But I'm 2 weeks in and I think this kit is really cool.I had no plan on how to learn to play. When you register the kit on the website (DO IT), it offers you a free month of Melodics (computer or laptop needed, I recommend a laptop set up directly in front of the drum set). I went ahead and signed up. Melodics is absolutely amazing, it has guided training and lessons.This kit does not come with the drum throne or headphones, you'll need to purchase those separately, but they come in a separate bundle. You'll also need a usb-a to usb-b cable to connect the kit to the computer to use melodics most efficiently.My only other suggestion is, I think there's the same kit, but with the 10-inch snare. You might want to get that one instead, but I'm doing just fine with the 8-inch snare in this kit.

Une batterie compacte pas mal mais un peut cacaille, attention à la fragilité des attaches.

Excelente bateria! Resistente, fácil de montar, módulo com ótimas opções para estudo. Recomendo usar baquetas com ponta de nylon.Único ponto que talvez possa ser um problema é a altura. Para pessoas mais altas fica um pouco desconfortável e difícil de ajustar.

Le pelli mesh rendono la batteria silenziosissima e gradevole nel rimbalzo. Per chi è all'inizio è sicuramente la soluzione più adeguata, rimane si una batteria elettronica entry level ,a che può soddisfare le aspettative anche dei più esperti. Ci si può sbizzarrire con tanti suoni e creare tanti set a proprio piacimento. Inoltre il pedale della grancassa grazie anche al Pad , simula molto bene . L'unica pecca è la stabilità ed i pad piccoli, per stabilità non si intende che non regge , poteva però avere un po' più di equilibrio. Se si porta il set dei pad in avanti si vede la struttura che pende un po'.

Despite some very confusing directions, I was able to get the kit from box to playing in about 40 mins. Before I go any further, though: I'm an absolute novice. I know nothing about drums. A month later, I can play some basic stuff thanks in part to the training features in the module. The menus can be a bit of a faff to navigate due to the screen setup but you get the hang of it pretty easily with some exposure and taking the time to intentionally fiddle with it. The actual physical setup sits kinda low for me (I'm 5'11) and isn't as configurable as I'd like due to pre-measured cables, but this doesn't really detract from the playability as there IS a reasonable amount of wiggle room for how you angle your drum heads and the height and orientation of your cymbals, and you can more than likely make it work for you. I've been beating the absolute crap out of the pads since receiving the item and both the solid cymbal pads and mesh drum heads are holding up splendidly with very, very slight wear on the ride cymbal. I'd describe it as more of a breaking in than a deterioration, though.Overall this feels like a relatively sturdy and responsive entry level item and I've been chuffed to bits with it. A word of warning, though. While it's got great sound quality, the volume IS as whisper-quiet as other reviews have said without either an amp or headphones with independent volume control. Not a deal breaker, but caveat emptor.TL;DR - Get yourself some good headphones with volume control and put this one in your cart if you wanna get your feet wet. This is the one, chief.

Back in the day, people used to say that something fun was "the most fun you can have with your clothes on". It was a bit of a naff saying but it did the rounds for a long time.Well, drumming might just be that fully-dressed frolic that works for me! I laugh out aloud whether I'm getting something right or hilariously wrong, and its invigorating and rewarding at the same time.This kit covers just about all that I want to achieve. I was getting it to replace the old Octapad II that I still have. That was getting a bit unreliable and I just wanted to trigger drum sounds elsewhere, but to my surprise, actually playing and learning new tricks has proven to be pretty engaging and exciting.It's hard to assemble, and heavy too once it starts coming together (well, it has to be). The instructions are okay, but not overwhelming. We really need another picture for a little Ikea-man lying on the floor throwing a tantrum when putting one of these together. It's kinda exciting to see it taking shape, though.The instructions are a bit fuzzy on things like orientation of parts - is this crossbar the right way up, or upside down? Getting the kit assembled is partly instruction and partly inspiration.Once it is set up, the fun begins. The module (brain) controls everything except your playing, and has a bunch of demo tune for playing along to, with drum parts that can be switched on or off as required. You can also choose other kits (sounds) to play or concoct your own kit from the various sampled sounds, mixing bass drum with snare from another kit, and cymbals from yet another one, and so on.There are practice functions to improve your timing and accuracy in other regards as well, and switching on the metronome while playing along to a demo tune will also invoke the function that watches your timing. You can even play music from your phone or some other device and drum along to that. I record music and have made drumless versions of my own music to play along to. It might also be possible to find such tunes online, by bigger rockstars than me!You can also play drums into a DAW (USB-midi) and assign the hits to different drum sounds, meaning that you can add your own playing to any demo tracks you are recording and also change the sounds as you go.It's a beginner kit in many ways. The drums are all single-zone but for the snare, which has two. This means that the sounds are less changeable by techniques such as where you strike the drum, although they are obviously velocity-sensitive and you get a lot of nuance that way. You have to move up to another kit to get that feature.You can add another tomtom and another cymbal to this kit using the two spare inputs on the brain module. I've not become an expert with this one yet, but who knows, one day I might do a whole-bar fill that goes around the kit and miss that final drum and cymbal. It's comprehensive enough for a long time musician getting into drumming, there's a lot to learn.Build quality is "sturdy". It needs to be! It's heavy as a large boulder but things like the bass drum pedal, while fantastic and just like a proper one, are so light that they will creep across the floor as you play the bass drum, eventually ending up out of reach! So you really need to look at getting a backstop for wandering pedals. The hi-hat pedal doesnt have the same wanderlust. It's not so bad.Playing acoustically is hilarious, just a collection of weird bumps and binks and bops as you hit the pieces, so headphones or an external amp are the way to go. I've used a guitar combo to good effect, although you really have to do some serious equalising of the sound to get something acceptable. Headphones is great too, and with other people in the house perhaps it's the only polite option. Playig upstairs on a wooden floor would be antisocial either way, so use a good drum mat or something to deaden the bumps if you are in that situation.As a 60-something just getting started, this is great fun, and with great fun comes great progress. I'm now confident that I could amaze someone with my drumming (unless they were also a drummer) and was at that level after about 2 months of playing an hour or so each day. I've come to a plateau in my progress and now need to look into specific things, most importantly trying to get my right foot (bass drum) to stop following my right hand (hi-hat cymbal) when I change the rhythm on one or the other. This "rewiring" of the brain is a common obstable that is only overcome with practice, and this kit provides more than enough fun to keep me going while I figure that de-coupling skill out.It's not for everybody. If you're easily discouraged then it really doesn't matter how great a drumkit is, you probably wouldn't stick with it anyway, but if you're even moderately ambitious and open about having to learn and improve, this is a real blast. I doubt I'll ever regret buying this kit and using it to "upskill" myself in music. There's also nothing quite as satisfying as now having demo tracks on which I really did play every last instrument myself! No drum machines, no pre-recorded tracks slipped in, just my own work.Enjoy!

I have had this product for four weeks and overall I'm very much enjoying it. I am a beginner, as I am sure many reading this will be. It was easy to assemble, sounds great, and was easy to learn the way the sound module works.Pros:- Nice stick rebound on the pads- Very compact- Affordable- Great sound- Easy to assemble- Low noise. (The mesh heads are great)- Aux input allows the drummer to play along to external music source.Cons-- For the "Nitro Mesh" kit only, I have one single _major_ complaint: The 8" diameter snare drum is ANNOYING!!..It is annoying not so much because it is only 8 inches in diameter .. but because it is only 8 inches __AND__ it has a very tall rim around it, made even taller by a rubber rim protector. This forces you to hold the sticks at a much higher elevation, and at a steeper angle, in order to avoid striking the rim. You can remove the rubberized rim protector and this will help very modestly-- I tried this and it proved to me that the bigger snare would help immensely! Indeed, most drum sets have a rather large snare drum head (especially compared to an 8" one), and the rim is absolutely not as recessed as the 8" unit provided with the Nitro Mesh kit.... SO!...This resulted in me buying a 10" dual zone snare off of Ebay that is used with the "Alesis Surge Mesh" or DM10 (i paid just under $100). That extra 2" along with a rim that stands significantly less proud makes an incredible difference!It is not for me to say if this is a big enough issue to suggest you, the reader of this review, to buy a "Alesis Surge" or do what I did and upgrade my "Nitro" kit with a larger snare head. I can only tell you that the upgrade to the 10" snare was VERY much worth it to me. The upgrade made holding the sticks more comfortable, and I don't think I've accidentally struck the rim once since the upgrade.The photos show that the rim of the 8" (black counter hoop) are 5/8 of an inch tall from the surface of the pad, and the 10" upgrade pad has a rim that is under 7/16" of an inch tall.

tl;dr: Great kit for any drummer whether you live in a home, apartment or have young children and you want to drum while they are asleep at night. Great variety of sounds to play with. Ability to save custom kits. best bang for your buck if you want an e-kit that near perfectly replicates an acoustic set, and the company that takes care of your warranty is amazing.Recently got my own house again and wanted to get back into drummer, but with an infant daughter, an acoustic set was out of the question. So I decided to go with this e-kit and it was a great choice. It's such a quite set that I can play it late at night whilst my baby is sleeping and it doesn't wake her at all. Best bang for your buck if you want an e-kit that can very closely resemble and acoustic set (such as the lighter or heavier you hit a cymbal/snare/tom the lower or higher the sound) and the mesh heads feel great. Not a perfect match to an acoustic but miles better than an e-kit that doesn't use mesh heads.Unfortunately, I did have an issue with the kit out of box, but the company that takes care of the warranty is fantastic. I sent in a ticket, and instead of just throwing emails around they called me directly to work out the details and in less than a week my issue was fixed. (Which is why I'm still giving this kit a 5 star. Though it may have had an issue, it was most likely not a common one and the support was amazing)I Had to give up my acoustic drumset about 8 years ago do to moving into an apartment. Finally got to a place where I could start drumming again and decided to give this e-kit a try. I had been pushed away from e-kits for so long because they just weren't the best and hard to get into after you've played an acoustic kit. Needless to say e-kits have come a long way, and for the price this is a great set for beginners and intermediate drummers. The mesh pads feel great and give you a decently close to real feel. They rebound a bit more than a real snare/toms, but it's not that bad. The set is nice a quite so you're not annoying anyone else that might be listening, so it would also be great for apartments, but if someone is living below you the bass pedal might still be loud.It has a great variety of sounds to choose from and you can create your own kits and save them right onto the module. The ability to plug in your phone to an aux jack on the module is also great. Makes it so much easier to play along with music. One thing I do for easy recording of drum covers or just recording beats is that I use an aux splitter. I plug that splitter in the headphone jack, plug my headphones into one end and use a double ended aux cord into the other. That way you plug in the aux into a microphone jack on your PC and you can record your drums right into audcity or a similar audio recorder. Alternatively, you can change that mic input into a listen device and the sound goes straight to your PC and you just use software like OBS or similar to record your covers. Doing this, since you're playing the music your drumming to from your phone plugged into the aux port on the module, that music is going directly to your PC with your drums. It's a nice way to record covers without having to worry about syncing up your music to your drums. I also find that there isn't a huge drop is sound quality doing it thing way either. The drums still sound great going through the aux to your PC so it's a nice cheap option compared to spending tons of money on interfaces.