A New Look

I decided to get artistic one day so I bought some construction paper and got to work.  I just thought it would be fun to label my drums with colors the way you see it on a standard Rock Band drum set.  Here is the result:

This is what I call the "Rock Band labels".  I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but I also added another crash on the right side there (neatly labeled with green construction paper).  If you ignore the left crash, you can kinda treat the kit as having "zones" that make it very similar to a RB kit.  That is shown below:

As an interesting sidenote, the kit looks a little intimidating to play on, but it's fairly straightforward to play it like a regular RB kit if you so choose.  Just ignore the cymbals:

That's actually what I do on some harder songs.  Well, I still use the ride (blue) and crash (green) cymbals, but sometimes I ignore the hi-hat (yellow) because it's easier to play hard sections without crossing my right hand over my left.  I also made some more cymbal-shaped pieces of paper for the "Guitar Hero: Metallica" setup.  That particular layout is shown below:

It's slightly awkward because the yellow tom doesn't have an analog in the GH:M setup.  In Guitar Hero games, the yellow note is always a cymbal - sometimes hi-hat and sometimes a second crash.  It's essentially useless, except when (as mentioned above) I want to be lazy and play the yellow tom instead of the hi-hat.

Anyways, that's how things are now.  It's pretty fun to play with everything labeled this way, even though it doesn't help me much anymore.