A lifetime of drumming starts here. There’s no substitute for a great drum teacher when learning drums. But maintaining focus and the motivation to practice outside of lessons is key to improving your drumming skills. Melodics for V-Drums is a downloadable app that offers step-by-step, interactive lessons that you can play along to. Each lesson shows you how to play the groove, and also displays your stick hits onscreen to show where you’re nailing it and where you need to tighten up. You even g

Making V-Drums even quieter has involved painstaking research into sound transmission and construction materials, plus the development of all-new techniques to overcome the problem of drumming noise. Detailed testing in special facilities has revealed that the VQD106 V-Drums Quiet Design kit reduces noise by an astonishing 75 percent compared with a conventional V-Drums kit. The kick and hi-hat are incredibly smooth and quiet, and stick hits on the pads produce in-room sound levels similar to an

Enter V-Drums Quiet Design. While they may look like conventional V-Drums, every component is infused with important innovations to make them purposefully quiet. Carefully engineered pads and hardware dramatically reduce the volume of playing noises while sound-absorbing materials isolate all your kinetic drumming energy to prevent its escape into adjoining spaces. | Roland V-Drums