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This custom Super Mario Bros. Drum Kit looks pretty awesome. It’s the kind of thing they would play at the Koopa Cabana. If such a place existed. Anyway, your Mario themed band has found it’s first set of equipment.

It was made for the drummer from One Fell Swoop by SJC Custom Drums, who makes all kinds of cool custom drum sets. I say beat on Bowser, not drums, but if you are a Nintendo fanboy with rhythm, you’ll want to get your drumsticks on this awesome themed drum kit.

This is sooo much better than Donkey Konga. Of course, I’m no Keith Moon. More like a Keith Loon. I’m one Goomba shy of a gaggle, but I know a cool drum set when I see one.

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Youtuber COOP3RDRUMM3R is seen here covering Ellie Goulding’s Burn. Naturally, he’s playing it with flaming drumsticks, which is the only way to play a song called Burn. Kids, don’t try this at home. This is a professional, or at least a mildly crazy person.

This guy is on fire. No, not really. I just mean he is flaming. Well, what I mean is, he is drumming with fire. He’s gonna need some new drumsticks after this performance. Check out the video to see the whole thing, or jump straight to 3:15 to see the pyrotechnics.

I vote that from now on, this is the only way to drum. Is everyone cool with that? Great job COOP3RDRUMM3R. Enjoy those hands while you still have them.

[via Geekologie]

We’ve seen a way to play drums using normal objects and even a steering wheel. DrumPants takes on the final frontier: you. Despite its misleading name, DrumPants are not actually pants or even restricted to pants. They’re wearable drum pads that attach to clothing and other objects using velcro.

Each kit comes with two drum pad strips, two pedal strips i.e. foot sensors and a control box, which seems small enough to fit in your back pocket. The foot sensors are wired to the two strips, which are in turn wired to the control box. The box has more than a hundred built-in sounds, including other instruments such as synthesizers, guitars and pianos.

Pledge at least $99 (USD) on Kickstarter to get a DrumPants kit as a reward. As hinted at in the video above, DrumPants can be connected to other music apps. It can even be used to emulate keyboard strokes, meaning you can use them to control even non-music software. If you’re interested in these additional functions, make sure to get the kit that comes with a Bluetooth adapter so you can interact with your computer wirelessly. Check out DrumPants’ YouTube page for more demos of the kit.

Earlier this year we saw AirHarp, a virtual harp that uses the Leap gesture controller, letting the user make music by playing an imaginary harp. The developer behind the AirHarp recently introduced a similar program but for a more popular instrument. The AirBeats will actually make air drummers productive. Or at least expose them for the frauds they are.

The AirBeats is very intuitive to use. The instruments you’ve chosen are displayed on the screen. All you have to do is tap in midair as if those instruments were arranged in front of you. You can also record and replace instruments just by pointing and swiping in midair. It is incredibly responsive, whether you use your hands or a pair of drumsticks or even pencils.

Developer Handwavy said AirBeats will be available on Airspace – that’s Leap’s app store – on July 22, 2013. I love how it’s a more physical way of making digital music. Maybe artists can even use it live so their audience can “play” along with them.

[via UniqueDaily]

Can you remember the first time when you received your driver’s license? The feeling was definitely an exhilarating one, no? Of course, over the course of time, you might find that driving is a chore, especially when you have to juggle the timetable of three children who happen to have a daily schedule that is more packed than the President himself, apart from having to crawl through the daily traffic gridlock. Let us assume you have a musical streak in you, and you might want to blow off some steam right smack in the middle of the traffic jam by playing a set of drums. They are no ordinary drums, but I am referring to “Reinventing the Wheel (RITW),” which is a steering wheel cover that allows you to entertain yourself (and perhaps the rest of the passengers) whenever you are tuning in to your car stereo.

The RITW is the brainchild of the Smack Attack Corporation, where it will set you back by $149.99 a pop. It fits around an ordinary steering wheel, where it will then be transformed into an electronic drum set which is capable of playing up to eight different drum sounds, and that is only the start as the sounds will not be limited to drums alone. You are also able to include other sounds to its onboard storage, and it is a snap to trigger them from whichever one of the its eight sensors you select.

Smack Attack Corporation also offers a wide range of sounds that you are able to upload, in addition to creating your own and uploading those. Just to make sure that all of your creative efforts do not go to waste, it can also perform a recording of all your musical masterpieces, with the option to even overdub your performances on top of each other.

Let us hope that RITW will experience a successful Kickstarter project – in the meantime, you can continue to keep your fingers dancing across the steering wheel as practice.

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