The Drumeo P4 Practice Pad - Four Different Playing Surfaces

Noise level:Excellent. Works well too with multi-dowel sticks Works well:Imagine as a 4pc drum let Functionality:Sized and designed compactly Why did you pick this product vs others?:designed with actual movements around the practice pad.

Good for practicing those rudiments and otherwise warming-up. It actually does inspire a bit of musicality beyond just a single surface pad.I saw it being used by the Drumeo folks on their Youtube and was inspired to purchase it because of the different pads which are to simulate different drum surfaces (rack tom, floor tom, snare, cymbals).The only thing I can think of that might make it better, would be a slight redesign of the plastic to make room for the "floor tom" pad to be double thickness, because if you hit it a little too hard, you can feel the hard plastic under the pad. Else, just don't hit it hard enough to reach that plastic..if you can.I've been using 2b full-length sticks for practice on this Drumeo pad, but any can be used. Have had my pad for 2 years now, and yet to have any issues with the pads coming loose but I'd probably be considered light use, so your mileage may vary.

The Good: All of the 4 Pads feel relatively accurate to how the surface tension and noise creation of different parts of a drum kit would be, this is my favorite pad because it helps practice to feel more like sitting on a kit. This pad is great during day time because no one can really hear you around you, but if you need to be quiet at night time, the only pad that is practicable is the White pad. The other pads can be practiced on silently but at very low velocity.The Semi-Bad: The white soft pad is perfect amazing for the most silent practicing where no one around you can hear you even at night. Because I love the white pad so much, I wish the other pads on this unit were a lot more softer and less noisy.I would buy a new version of this with but with different surface tension like the white pad.Semi-Negative: The silent white pad's (which I like most) irregular shape and softness makes it so there's no perfect sweet spot on the pad (this isn't horrible, you can still practice a lot on this pad but if they can remake this pad, they should change this). The issue here is that a drummer will feel the difference between left and right strokes. A wide rectangle shape would have worked so much better than the shape it is on this pad. I appreciate the circular design of this, it looks nice, but it messed up the functionality of the soft white pad. The rest of the pads don't have this issue because they are a lot more dense than the white pad.I would like for this company to keep making this pad but also make a silent version of it.. I would totally buy the same version of this but with varying silent pads like the White pad on this unit. Or if a company would just chop off a square of every existing practice pad out there and put it into one board, that'd be drum practice pad heaven.Other practice pads surface may feel better and be quieter, but having only one practice pad surface is not as useful to me as multiple pads of varying bounce.

Drumeo makes a great pad for those lookimg to expand their sound library tone wise which includes a variety of surfaces to play on for a more sure fire way to lrarn.stick placement amd control going around a kit . I Highly recommend this exellent practice pad for new students to get acquainted eith .

The media could not be loaded. This pad is great! It would have been even better if the bottom side had been padded to play. There is a non slip material on the bottom, but you can only reasonably play the top. At this price, it seems like the bottom would have been playable. This is the second P4 I have gotten, the first had crooked center pads that left wood exposed to be hit while practicing. The replacement wasn't perfectly manufactured, but it was better with alignment that not much wood is exposed negating the issue with the first pad. There is no rim to practice rim shots. The blue pad is the typical high quality drum pad similar to what is on most practice pads, while the center two and top pads are the ones you are really paying for here different than the average practice pad. Two are harder than the gum rubber snare (blue), while the gray is really quiet and full of rebound. This is great for trying to be quiet, and it may be used as a low tom or kick. You can also hit the corner edge of the harder pads, (black and red), to use as what I think of as bells, adding two additional sounds to expand your playing. The black pad can be used as cymbal or high tom, it has a sound lower than the red pad, but it is still a ticking kind of sound much like the red opposite from the blue or gray pads for example. Where this pad really shines is when you map your ideas to the available surfaces, (snare, toms/kick/hat/ride/bells), you are able to have full practice sessions where you can play essentially anything you know on a real kit and beyond. It can be used as a regular 1 zone drum pad, or you can use it as a full kit. The sound that comes from it is good enough that I've actually played with several musicians with an amp for bass and guitar still being able to hear eachother and write. They too played the P4 and all liked it and said it was worth the price. One said they will be purchasing one who isn't even a drummer he liked it so much!The missing star of my review is because of manufacturing, the lack of rim (even if it had only been on the blue "snare" pad), and the fact it isn't double sided as many of the others are in thise price range lacking the ability to flip and play on the bottom, and there are small particles of the gray pad that manage to spread across the other pads, (not a ton, but I'm hoping it will eventually stop) both the first and second P4 I received did this. All and all though, there aren't very many options that allow you to do what this pad allows you to. I really enjoy it, and it has most certainly already made me a better percussionist, I notice the moment I sit at a kit I've got far more ideas, articulation and control.If you are going to be spending hours upon hours like I have, a decent set of ear plugs or over ears would really benefit your hearing in the long run. It is clicky and loud just as much of the other practice pads tend to be with the exception of the gray zone being ultra quiet.Good job, Drumeo!