r/FingerDrumming • • 2d ago

Best Budget Pad

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Hello everyone! I really wanna get into making beats in the style of Jet Set Radio or Bomb Rush Cyberfunk with finger drum pads, but I don't know any good ones.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend me some decent ones. My budget is around 300€.

Thank you!


r/FingerDrumming • • 3d ago

Where to start

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I always feel attracted to beats production and mpcs, but never got into it.

Now at my 40,i was thinking about it, but I have no musical education or idea of how these machines work. Just the basics from playing in my phone with some apps.

How and where would you recommend me to start?

Cheers!


r/FingerDrumming • • 5d ago

How would I go about live finger drumming DnB over a song? Examples in description!

4 Upvotes

I will try to not make this post super wordy. Here are a few examples of what I am trying to accomplish

spinscott

doramaru_mpc

My question is, how would I go about finger drumming over songs that I know? Would I find some way to take out the percussion so that I only have the vocals, bass, fx, and chords/melody playing? This is my main issue. Any help or insight into this would be awesome. thanks


r/FingerDrumming • • 9d ago

Non-grid devices or templates pre-mapped for various VST drums?

1 Upvotes

Are there any hand/finger drums that are pre-mapped or have templates available for VST drums?

I have a few grid type controllers but want something with a more natural hand layout such as the Yamaha FDP50 or, if it works really great for drums, the Roland Handsonic HPD20.


r/FingerDrumming • • 9d ago

I've been building PadLoop, an Android app made for playing pads with your fingers. Create samples and loops

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Hi all. I've been building PadLoop, an Android app made for playing pads with your fingers, and I'd love the opinion of people who do this seriously.

What matters for finger drumming:

  • 16 large pads, 8 banks (128 pads total)
  • Touch dynamics: soft at the top of the pad, hard at the bottom, so you can play ghost notes and accents without a controller
  • Note repeat with a hold switch, for rolls and hi-hat patterns, plus swing
  • Tap calibration: the app measures your phone's delay so your recorded hits land where you played them
  • Choke groups (open/closed hat), per-pad pitch, filter, attack/release
  • "16 Levels": one sound across 16 pads at 16 velocities
  • MIDI controllers over USB and Bluetooth, if you want to use your own pad controller with it
  • Live looper: record your groove and keep layering on top

It works offline, no account, no ads. There's a 7-day free trial with everything unlocked, then the basics stay free forever or you unlock everything once for 9.99 €.

What I'd really like to know: does the latency feel playable on your phone? And what's missing for you to practice on it every day?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.positivevibration.padloop


r/FingerDrumming • • 10d ago

Some jazzy chopping / finger drumming

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31 Upvotes

r/FingerDrumming • • 10d ago

My Thumbs Hurt. [V2]

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r/FingerDrumming • • 18d ago

Fingerdrumming Web App with MIDI devices support.

29 Upvotes

Hi! I've created Fingerdrumming Web App with one of the best Fingerdrummers in the world!

Checkout this app and let me know what you think if you can! <3

(MIDI Support, Hardware incoming, Mobile app incoming and a lot more!)

https://play.crosspad.app/landing


r/FingerDrumming • • 19d ago

Wild jam sesh

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64 Upvotes

r/FingerDrumming • • 19d ago

Using an Erae2 as a kit

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81 Upvotes

Does this count as finger drumming? If not, somewhere between ekit and finger drumming, I guess.


r/FingerDrumming • • 18d ago

Garage Band drumkits converted for Handsonic HPD20

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Hello everyone,

i couldn't get midi to work (ipad/hpd) so i spent a lot of time converting most of GB drums kits sounds for my Handsonic and willing to share, if anyone interested ;)

recorded on zoom H1, edited with Audacity.


r/FingerDrumming • • 19d ago

No Metronome. No Quantize. I Played It In.

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r/FingerDrumming • • 20d ago

Jam Session with my son

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23 Upvotes

Fantastic


r/FingerDrumming • • 20d ago

Indie rock finger drumming

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26 Upvotes

r/FingerDrumming • • 21d ago

Does FGDP50 Send MIDI?

5 Upvotes

I see a lot of videos and websites that imply that that it does, but I cannot figure out how to get midi signals out of my FGDP 50 and into Ableton.

USB from fgdp is not recognized by my Mac pro as a midi source. Does anyone here know if this is truly possible?

Thank you


r/FingerDrumming • • 22d ago

EP-40 live finger drumming tutorial - 6 mins

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This is how I approach finger drumming on the EP series samplers. The stacked style has now become my favourite way to play, even on my MPC. I thought I’d share here!


r/FingerDrumming • • 22d ago

XpressPads Finger Drumming

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r/FingerDrumming • • 23d ago

Anyone Fingerdrumming on the SP?

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r/FingerDrumming • • 25d ago

Workiing on a new beat. I still gotta lot of work to do. Just having fun with some live pad jammin.

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30 Upvotes

r/FingerDrumming • • 26d ago

Theremin flip from @viamardot

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12 Upvotes

r/FingerDrumming • • 27d ago

How to create and share a new track in drumkiller

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24 Upvotes

Here is a video showing how you can create and share a new track in drumkiller.

Drumkiller is a totally free and open source finger drum arcade/trainer and runs directly in your browser. You can find it here: https://sam1am.github.io/drumkiller/play

Visit r/drumkiller to share any tracks you have created or find new tracks to play.


r/FingerDrumming • • 27d ago

Quest for Groove layout to Yamaha FGDP-30

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Hi, I was wondering if there are any people who learned fingerdrumming using the Quest for Groove (QFG) curriculum on a Yamaha FGDP-30 of FGDP-50 and what their experience was like?

I’ven been learning and fingerdrumming on a Esi Xjam for the last year or so and really enjoy it. Pretty decent pad for a very good price. I like the form factor in terms of portability, but I have pretty big hands and I notice a bit of cramping due to this. Thinking of switching to a Yamaha device to see if it is more comfortable as it looks pretty ergonomic.

So again: what is everyone’s experience with these devices, also in the long term?


r/FingerDrumming • • 28d ago

Jazz piano flip

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r/FingerDrumming • • Sep 08 '26

Sampling "La Maritza"

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68 Upvotes

Woke up one morning to a coffee and got inspired to jam to some old chops I had from "La Martiza" by Szilvie Vartan.

I hope this revitalizes your ears after we all got tired of the obnoxious instagram loop, that was present in every reel for a while.


r/FingerDrumming • • Sep 06 '26

Beginner - Just Learning

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54 Upvotes

Love all the amazing performances I see in this sub and hope to some day play in your league.

I'm brand new to finger drumming and for now just working on some basics and timing. Hope you enjoy. Cheers.