Well, for those of you who don't have the money to dish out for a pad that has some snare sound to it you might like this. I was hacking around last night and i saw a wal-mart plastic bag and decided to see what would happen if I put the pad in the bag. Well I put the pad in the walmart bag and then put in another walmart bag inside on top the pad and tadaaaaa! Might not be the best way, but hey it gives it a snare sound to it. FYI I only tried this with my vicfirth double sided pad. Happy bag drumming! oh yeah and the looser the bag the more snarey it sounds so don't put it tight against the pad.

How interesting. I never would have thought Wal-Mart would come in handy in terms of playing music... Good Job!

And why would you want your pad to sound like a snare?

Does it have to be a Wal-Mart bag. I have a Target bag, but I don't think it will work.

I don't know. I just get tired of the doink of the rubber I guess?

HAHAHAHAHA, another pit instrument is born.

hahaha, yes the wal-snad.

Just an update on this new pit instrument, I know for a fact that Target, Kohls, and grocery bags will work also. You need to experiment to find the sound your looking for. I am now taking a big plastic shopping bag and working on tuning the bag to resemble a bass drum.............to be continued.

isnt a pad used so you won't have a snare sound?
Hmmm...idk

Confused!

nope...Pad is for practicing. My pad has beads in it that make the snare sound. It sounds really tight but be careful on developing pad hands.

Pads are for practice and being quiet. This Idea meets both requirements.

Good Idead!

Placing a sheet of paper on top of a pad also has a nice sound to it.

The paper thing is good, but the quality comes from the Walmart bag, its such perfection..........hahahaha.

I'm now working on repairing old bass rims, and stretching large bags over them, still having some problem tuning them. But I think I am onto something good here.........to be continued after solving tuning problem.

Hey, that's a good idea. I'm going to try that.

theres nothing like beating on a smily face.

I don't like those pads with the beads inside it. Why is it important that a practice pad sound like a snare? If it were, they'd call them "performance pads" or something. It's just for the feel... and for portability. And QUIETNESS, sometimes. Not for the sound. Thats just IMO.

Got me about 20 new drum pad heads today, no smiley face on them anymore.

I've found that if you use a very big bag and overlap layers of plastic on plastic makes a tighter snare sound the more layers you make.

For me it seems that continuous beating flattens the pad out and I lose the response after about two minutes.

just keep the bag loose on it and put in the second bag jus placed in there and it should help.

Has anybody tried putting beads in their pads? I was thinking about that but I'm too afraid I'll permanently mess up the pad.

yea that. or you could buy a reguler snare pad....

Yeah, that would be better. They are usually so expensive though. If I had the money to, I would just buy a real snare pad.

And this brings up the real question everybody is wondering about. A pad's function is to help practice so you dont have to carry a drum around, but should be it just like a snare or shuld it just feel like one???? hmmmmm

as far as realistic feeling i just ghetto'd up some hardware and made basically a really thin drum and filled with some stuff that makes it absolutely silent. so it does the same thing as a pad (quiet practice) but without risking pad hands

that sounds ghetto....now featuring the ghetto Wal-snad.

haha D unit got any pics?

ill try to get some...but on another thing to try (i know this works with reel feel pads) but put like some electrical tape acroos the middle then put a not as long layer on top of that then put an even smaller layer on top of that in the middle of the pad...and...kaboom you got a snar-ish sounding pad and a playing zone worker.

I like my pad being as quiet as possible.

We can now officially come up with a new contest. We can call it, "PIMP MY WALMART BAG".

hmm... a little strange. Why would you just go and put a pad in a wal-mart bag?

because its an adventure in practice pad use.

sounds cool ,i think i'll try it.

lol well i was just hacking around on things and when i hit a bag it got me thinking O.o

yeah ill go w her if you have a distraction of a snare sound , itl impress those "drumline the movie" freaks but it wont help you clean your sound...

Since this is the holiday season, save all those bags for your Walmart Drum Pad. You can use bags from other stores for different sounds, but the Walmart bag is the bomb for sound.

...the craze of tomorrow....baglines! The modern drum has become obsolete and now a new percussive instrument will take over!......Someday i'd love to see a full drumline using these bag pads

I had to revive this one, it was fun when it was first started.

Think of the GE possibilities... I can't really think of any, but I'm sure they're there.... wait, you could possibly take off all of your drum head-bag things, fasten them together, and have a simple player jump off the stadium roof and parachute down.

do these contribute to the infamous bag hands?

never thought walmart would have anything to do with drumming whatsoever, or at least thats what i hoped.

you can put any bag on top,even better if you put a thin magazine like an eastbay on your pad and it sounds "snarey" as well.