Overall, an excellent little digital drum set

FANTASTIC AND VERSATILE MINI DRUM SET UP FOR THE SERIOUS DRUMMER!!!

It's a nice portable drum pad

I am a guitarist and a singing, but my wife is a learning drums to play with me and she loves this thing

With the software in place, I ordered the Yamaha KP65 kick tower (which is an excellent product) to have realistic kick drum action

Alesis SR-16 Drum Machine for some more realistic drum sounds, and then into my computer for recording

The DD-65 has recesses on the bottom that fit a snare drum stand and it makes it very comfortable to use.

The other great thing is that because it is digital you can easily plug it into your computer's "audio input" jack and record amazing sounding drums into your digital recordings

Many different realistic drum sounds/kits, velocity sensitive pads, pedals, and more features for us to discover and grow into

I bought a snare drum stand to perch them on...the drum pad kit has conveniently located notches in the underside to accommodate a snare drum stand, and it sits solidly on the stand itself and stands up to some fairly heavy playing with the sticks

One more thing: I thought that it would be a substandard drumming experience by playing on a digital drum set like this.

The Yamaha DD-65 is made to receive a standard snare drum stand to the bottom as a way of playing it without putting it on a table.

I love the DD65 electronic drums, I added the Kp65 upgraded bass drum to my kit, and added a Tama Iron Cobra double bass drum pedal, and also a Yamaha MS50Dr drum monitor amp for this unit.

The sound is great and the drums are very responsive

and I don't care to have a super realistic drum tone.

Hitting the pads truly felt like a good electronic drum kit and you can do quite fancy fills and quick snare hits and it gets transmitted and "expressed" quite faithfully

When I wanted to move onto a trap drum kit, my parents said, "No

One more thing: I thought that it would be a substandard drumming experience by playing on a digital drum set like this.

And yes, a snare drum stand to hold the unit at the right height and angle is a good option

There are positives however: it has a very nice sound, ports for use with a snare drum stand, and a very diverse song database for learning the art of percussion

Great sounds, easy to change settings, easy to use, fits well on a snare drum stand

Kick drum doesnt work

An easy way to get good drum sounds that did not require a ton of mic placement, gating, etc.-

This is a very good drum set

Kick drum is majorly defective.

Really nice drum set

I'm not a drummer, but I am an active guitar player who was looking to buy an introductory, but tolerable, drum set for my nine-year old

If you are looking for a portable drum kit or a cheap way to get into playing drums this is for you

We have loved these drums

Now I can record great sounding drums without using my mouse or keyboard!-Upgrade-abilityI plan on buying a real set sometime in the future, but what's great about this is that I can build the set and have something to play on too

So you get him this nice digital drum set thatdoesn't take much space and is enough to get him through the basics

If a drum machine was good enough for Big Black, Rapeman, the first Jesus Lizard EP, etc I think I can get by with not-quite realistic sounding drums

It has clamp slots for any snare drum stand.

my grandson loves the drums!!!!!!!!

Built-In speakers not loud enough for a good jam sessionFinal thoughts: Overall, the Yamaha DD-65 is an amazing portable drum set for its low-priced, high quality drum set, with the downside of the floor pedals being buttons, but that's a fairly easy fix if you buy the Yamaha KP-65 kick tower in which you can use a real kick pedal and its pad is large enough to sport a double

Even good "electronic" drums look like something shoddy with their goofy frames.

The DD65 is a great electronic drum kit

And this isn't a complaint of the drum pad kit itself, but just noting it for those who go the snare drum stand route as a way of mounting it for use

Yamaha and other companies sell better pedals and if you were to replace the supplied pedals with upgraded ones, then you will have a fairly nice and compact drum kit

After getting completely frustrated with the quality of cheaper electronic drums sold off the shelf at most department/toy stores I looked into a higher quality kit for my 8 yr old daughter

It knocked the rust off my playing and has allowed me to record some nice drum tracks with my songs