er...why so many type of drums

[TehDrummer]

i duno anything about drum wanna learn soon but may i ask why is there so many types of drum some big some smaller and whats the diffrent between electric drum and the normal one...

 

[Schtauffen]

I can't answer for the different sizes question.

As for electronic vs acoustic drums, ...again. For goodness sake, please please learn to read around the Drums forums before posting. I'm not going to spoonfeed you when threads about it are on the first page of one of the Drum sections.

 

[evident]

different sized toms for different tones...if you're a beginner you probably won't bother much about the tuning. but as you play more and more gigs you'll realize that the tuning of the drums and the resonance of each tom is very important in bringing out the music. imagine you're playing hard rock but your tom is a 6" rack tom..

 

[TehDrummer]

what i mean is... why some got more than one bass drum and toms and all that?

 

[evident]

usually people only use 1 bass drum...for non-conventional kits you can add virtually anything you like to it. the reason why there are more than 1 toms, i've already explained. for different tonal colors and depth. imagine playing a fill-in with only one tone, won't sound as good. groove is created not only by timing but by different timbres and colors...