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Anyone can learn drums, all ages can pick it up, so whether your 8yrs old or 80.....GO FOR IT! What ever your drumming goals are its always good to challenge yourself and learn something new. If you can count (which hopefully most of you can) then you will be able to play drums. All you need to do is get a good teacher who can teach you all styles and genres, a good drum tutor will make your lessons productive, exciting and constantly pushing your abilities, use our drum tutor finder and book a lesson!
Beginner / Cheap Drum Kits
Beginners Cheap Drum Kits 
Check out some great kits for beginner drummers
Yamaha DD-65 - Online Price: $239
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Price: £119
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The drummer-friendly and stylish design of the Yamaha DD-65 marks a transition
to a more professional and versatile digital-drumming instrument. AUX IN jack
lets you connect an MP3 player and play along with your favourite music or load
MIDI songs from the Internet into the internal Flash ROM memory and play along.
New stereo-sampled voices, a wide variety of percussion sounds from all over the
world, a bass boost system and digital stereo processing give the DD-65 an
irresistible, thundering beat. The panel includes intuitive features that are
easy to operate. For example, select the Hand Percussion mode and the kit
automatically switches to percussion voices like congas and bongos. With its
powerful features, this is no toy. Anyone can enjoy it.
Alesis DM5 Pro Kit - Online
Price: $599
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Price: £329
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The Alesis DM5 Pro Kit is a high–quality, low–cost solution for a complete
electronic drum kit, with professional sound and familiar, comfortable
playability. Featuring quick setup and easy portability, combined with the DM5's
versatile sound selection, drummers can practice quietly with headphones or get
as loud as they need on–stage. Considering its portability and power, the DM5
functions equally well for recording or performing.
Rockwood 5-Piece Drum
Kit - Online price $299
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Performance Percussion PP300 - Online
Price: £199.00
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With their superb 'everything you need to get started playing now' package, PP300 kits include a full 5-piece drum set with bass drum, snare drum, two mounted tom-toms and floor tom, plus all those oh-so-vital accessories such bass drum pedal, two cymbals, sturdy double-braced cymbal stand with fully adjustable boom arm, and snare drum stand with heavy duty, quick-release snare basket. Not only that, but the PP300 kit also features fully adjustable mounted tom arms with memory locks, and spike/rubber spurs with setting markers for optimum secure bass drum positioning.
All the above drum sets are recommended by us because we believe they are the best models and brands on the market, we take into consideration the price, build quality, sound and general playability.