How to build a Right Hand Drum Stick

Build a drum stick for DTXMania.  Some drum rudiments specify right and left hand sticking.  The Right Hand Stick will help you practice your rudiment (or drumming).
The RudiBuilder rudiment creator program can help you create rudiments with encoded hand information so that you can practice rudiments using the correct hand sticking.
See gdamania.net and search for RudiBuilder or rudiments.

And, yes, you can use the stick as a Left Hand Drum Stick.

Step 1 Parts you'll need

1. A drum stick, your choice.
2. An unused computer microphone, especially one with a long cord and stick style mounting.
3. Some electrical tape.  Also duct tape, not the vinyl type, but the regular, soft, almost cloth backed type.
4. Optional, but useful, light foam.  This is similar to earbud foam, or any package foam that is airy (i.e. light weight and lots of holes so air can pass thru).  I took some out of a compact flash case.
5. Very Important: You can only make this work with an electronic drum set brain that uses input ports for each pad.  It will be even better if you drum brain has a spare input port.  If you don't have a spare input port, you can use one of the crash cymbal input ports.
6. Helpful: An electronic drum set brain that allows you to control sensitivity and cross-talk.  Most Roland's support this.
7. You might need a plug adapter if your drum brain has 1/4" style plugs. A stereo adapter works best.

Comments

[Cyberscann54]

I would highly recommend heat shrink tubing instead of using tape it will not become sticky over time and will look a lot more professional