Foot drums

[sabasgr68]

I´ve just been giving a curious eye to foot drums and foot shakers and the like; Ortega and others. Most of them are like expensive, except for the foot tambourine and foot egg shakers.

Do you have or use one of those?

IIRC Jeff @tonebender has or used to have one, not sure what type or model.

You local performers/serious hobbyists, any preference?

Random pics

[tonebender]

I have built many stomp boxes out of cigar boxes and I have made them from scratch as well. I use them when playing an acoustic. I just run them through a small Peavey bass amp. I also have a full drum set that is played with the feet as well. I wish I could say I am good at it but I am still learning. Pics of my homemade stuff and my floor drums that I got from the guy that builds them in Italy. There is someone making another version of the Floor Drum called Four on the Floor or something like that. I have the first one the guy ever shipped to the US. Since agreeing to join the band I am playing with I have not put as much time into my solo acoustic act so I am rusty on the floor drumming skills.

Here is my Mississippi Stomp Box. I used a 1958 Mississippi license plate because that was the year I was born. Someone here sent me some bass pups years ago and that is what generates the kick sound.

I use piezo pickups in the cigar boxes. I have made several but this in the one I use.

[tonebender]

I also have a Cajon with a kick pedal and the foot tambourine as well.

[sabasgr68]

I have built many stomp boxes out of cigar boxes and I have made them from scratch as well. I use them when playing an acoustic. I just run them through a small Peavey bass amp. I also have a full drum set that is played with the feet as well. I wish I could say I am good at it but I am still learning. Pics of my homemade stuff and my floor drums that I got from the guy that builds them in Italy. There is someone making another version of the Floor Drum called Four on the Floor or something like that. I have the first one the guy ever shipped to the US. Since agreeing to join the band I am playing with I have not put as much time into my solo acoustic act so I am rusty on the floor drumming skills.

Floor Drums.jpg



Here is my Mississippi Stomp Box. I used a 1958 Mississippi license plate because that was the year I was born. Someone here sent me some bass pups years ago and that is what generates the kick sound.

Mississippi Stomp Box.jpg

I use piezo pickups in the cigar boxes. I have made several but this in the one I use.

Cigar Stomp Box.jpg

Thanks, Jeff. Oh yes, I remember now about yours. It´s really impressive. Good sounds. The Cajon is also a good alternative, it´s good you also have one.

Well, those stomp boxes seem doable from a DIY point of view. I´ll search for cheap DIYs. I like the cigar box looks. I like yours.

This would be only for home use, and I can make tambourines and shakers from trash materials. I actually made a tambourine with a stick, and nailed some metal bottlecaps to it (see pic; not pretty, I know ), but I have to find a way that I can play it with my foot, or make another one more suitable for what I want.

[tonebender]

Very cool Sabas. My good friend is a drummer and we have been doing a duo from time to time. We call it busking. We made some percussion instruments from stuff around the house too. Here is our snare drum.

It is cat litter box. We cut a hole in it and glued a pie pan to the inside and put some washers and ceiling fan switch chain in it. Taped the cheap plastic plate to the top for a drum head. We can even drop a mic in the hole to mic it up. You would be surprised how much like a snare it sounds. The washers vibrates on the metal pie pan when you strike it. Best $2 snare ever.

[sabasgr68]

Very cool Sabas. My good friend is a drummer and we have been doing a duo from time to time. We call it busking. We made some percussion instruments from stuff around the house too. Here is our snare drum.

Homemade snare.jpg

It is cat litter box. We cut a hole in it and glued a pie pan to the inside and put some washers and ceiling fan switch chain in it. Taped the cheap plastic plate to the top for a drum head. We can even drop a mic in the hole to mic it up. You would be surprised how much like a snare it sounds. The washers vibrates on the metal pie pan when you strike it. Best $2 snare ever.

Cool!

And very clever. I may copy the idea and make a similar one.

Busking? Like just playing anywhere the two of you? So great! I don´t know if I have a "romantic" idea about it, but I´ve wanted to do that. Not by myself, I´m too introvert, I´d need a more extrovert partner for that - who can also sing well -, but it is an idea I like...

[tonebender]

A busker is a street performer playing for tips. There are a ton of great busker acts on YT. I just love that raw approach to entertaining. The guys that use buckets for drums, etc. We have sort of adopted the busker feel when we play by using the homemade instruments. It is mostly for friends when they come over for dinner and at parties thrown by those in my circle. Audience participation with tambourine, cowbells, homemade maracas, that sort of thing. It is fun and I actually like it better than the band in a lot of ways.

[redman]

No percussion gadgets but I have a great plug-in, in Studio One.

[sabasgr68]

No percussion gadgets but I have a great plug-in, in Studio One.

It also works!

[andrewsrea]

The return of 'one-man-bands'!

[BatUtilityBelt]

Decades ago I spent a day creating a sampled drum kit from household items - pans, lids, Pringles can, coffee can, a vinyl chair seat, a plastic box of pasta, more that I can't recall. I can't even list how many recordings that kit made it into, and nobody ever asked what the crazy sounds were. It was all percussion, heard as intended, and it's all good!

[sabasgr68]

Decades ago I spent a day creating a sampled drum kit from household items - pans, lids, Pringles can, coffee can, a vinyl chair seat, a plastic box of pasta, more that I can't recall. I can't even list how many recordings that kit made it into, and nobody ever asked what the crazy sounds were. It was all percussion, heard as intended, and it's all good!

Yes, sometimes we forget that we can make some sounds with household items, and many of them will be pretty unique. You obviously enjoyed it!