Drumming - Noisy Neighbour

circuit

I can understand the need to play real drums, but there are rehearsal studios for this purpose. I suspect he doesn't care how you feel, as long as his dad doesn't know.

m1kjm

Hopefully the father is going to retire soon - I suspect he wouldn't want to listen to the drumming all day long and well into the evening either.

Does the mother work or is she in there listening to that racket?

Cakeguts

If he is practising his drumming for that length of time he isn't doing it right. No one can concentrate properly for that length of time without lots of breaks. The point about practice is that you have to concetrate 100% of the time to get any improvement.


So we have established that he isn't any good at drumming and isn't improving so getting him to stop would actually do him a favour. He could then get a proper job. 28 is actually too old to be still hoping for a "lucky break." His parents aren't helping him either.

James1968

A lot of drummers wear headphones as they are linked to a digital metronome, thus giving them a timing beat.

FreeBear

Glovey wrote: »

I would be more than happy to help fund towards some sound proofing

There used to be a lad a few doors up on my road that took up drums - I'd regularly hear him in an evening practicing. Eventually he moved on and I haven't heard him since. But next door runs a jazz/rock group and regularly practices in his garage. Not really my cup of tea.... He then converted the garage in to a recording studio and spent quite a bit of money on soundproofing. That has muffled the noise a bit. As the noise is only a few hours, once in a while, and only ever during the day time, it isn't an issue. That said, the group uses electronic drums, so they can turn the volume down when required.

Soundproofing will muffle the noise to some degree, but electronic pads & headphones will be the only way to cut the noise down.

googler

B&Q for industrial-grade ear defenders when it gets too bad;

Crashy_Time

silverwhistle wrote: »

The headphones are probably just being used as ear defenders, which you'll see sometimes with live bands. I'm sure pads are less satisfactory, just as a practice chanter is not the same as a full set of pipes!


Next time you see the drummer on your walks ask if he's actually playing in a band? Wish him luck but also make your point directly..

He is probably listening to tracks on the headset and playing along, be grateful he doesn`t play the track so you can hear it as well. Tell him he is practising too much, the great drummers did a fraction of that time on practice, I believe that Ian Paice from Deep Purple claimed to practice only about an hour or two a day, and Ginger Baker claimed not to practice at all!

kerri_gt

Cakeguts wrote: »

If he is practising his drumming for that length of time he isn't doing it right. No one can concentrate properly for that length of time without lots of breaks. The point about practice is that you have to concetrate 100% of the time to get any improvement.


So we have established that he isn't any good at drumming and isn't improving so getting him to stop would actually do him a favour. He could then get a proper job. 28 is actually too old to be still hoping for a "lucky break." His parents aren't helping him either.

At 28 he may be a session drummer. Drumming actually seems that it can be very transient among bands. I guess people notice less than if the lead singer suddenly changed.

Though that amount of drumming, he must have arms like Arnie!

Perhaps suggest he switch to pads after 5 if he's still continuing to practise, or improve the sound proofing where he's playing.

jamesperrett

FreeBear wrote: »

Soundproofing will muffle the noise to some degree, but electronic pads & headphones will be the only way to cut the noise down.

Proper soundproofing will stop the noise completely - unfortunately very few people seem to understand how to do it properly. If I wanted to I could play drums in my studio 24 hours a day without the neighbours (roughly 15m away) even knowing about it. I don't know how your neighbours house is constructed but the solution could be as simple as installing secondary glazing or it could mean building a complete room within the existing room for the drummer to play in.

Doodles

I do think you should pluck up the courage to go round and speak to the son. So knock when he is actually drumming.

At the moment, to the son you are pretty 'faceless' people and its easier to cross boundaries when that's the case.

Turn up, be polite but firm about the issue. You will be more harder to ignore then for the son.

Longer term, I think this will be more of a time limited problem. At 28 he is surely due to move out at some point, and it sounds as though the dad is not happy either if you keep hearing rows.