Sep 7 2007Drumpants Are Drums In Your Pants!
Odbol (Tyler Freeman), a guy who looks like he's playing with himself where ever he goes, has made a pair of drumpants. Drumpants are pants that have Piezo transducer triggers in them that become MIDI data, and are then pushed to a drum machine. So you basically play the drums by beating yourself in the legs repeatedly. It's a neat idea, but I'm up in the air about its coolness. It's weird, you'd think the person who made these pants would be a hardcore drummer, and be able to wail on those things. Instead, it was made by a kind of leprachaun who plays like my niece.
Video proof after the jump.
Drumpants Are Drums In Your Pants! [engadget]
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Reader Comments
1. packagedeliverer - September 7, 2007 11:38 AM
right... is this because this is the only exciting stuff in his pants?
2. xfgnxghxtt - September 7, 2007 11:39 AM
I've been a drummer for 30 years, and this would pretty much finish my collection of Dumb Drums From Around The World. I''m ordering some!
3. Fasterthanlight - September 7, 2007 11:42 AM
I didn't know gingers could play drum...pants........ Strange... first drumpants, next they will take over the world!!
4. ffacee - September 7, 2007 1:01 PM
You spelled "weird" wrong.
5. Chode - September 7, 2007 1:37 PM
You are right, It sounds exactly like your niece.
6. Jonathan - September 7, 2007 2:09 PM
yeah, some of the worst drumming i've ever heard. i slap my legs without any pants on and it would sound 10 times cooler.
7. xfgnxghxtt - September 7, 2007 2:31 PM
#6 STFU it would not sound cooler because you are a dork and a loser.
Damn, that felt good to put into writing. I may just burn it into my toast!
8. Deuce - September 7, 2007 2:35 PM
I invented this when I was 13 but they were cum pants.
9. CAPITALLETTERS - September 7, 2007 3:21 PM
*whale on those things
10. imscuba - September 7, 2007 4:52 PM
who is to say that someone isnt playing the drums off screen? it would just take coordination
11. missa - September 7, 2007 5:05 PM
#10 my thoughts exactly. this vid proves nothing.
12. hjdfjhdh - September 8, 2007 3:08 AM
The vids prove you're a friggin' imbecile if you believe anyone with the coordination of the person onscreen could be matched by anyone off-screen. A pro drummer could not play like that to match the onscreen dude's off-time drumming and an amateur drummer, who would sound like that off-screen, could not match hand and foot beat for beat. It's impossible, and I am saying that as a drummer who can drum with anyone anytime anywhere without hearing their music beforehand. It's what I do.
7th!!
13. RandomNigel - September 8, 2007 4:58 PM
The guy sucks at playing drums. But this is certainly an interesting concept.
14. Mikey B - September 8, 2007 5:16 PM
I like the concept - would be fun for kids... and drummers bored at home smoking weed in their parents basement on my couch...
15. Sean - September 8, 2007 6:08 PM
@4
No he hasn't spelt weird wrong, try a dictionary next time before you try making a smart remark.
16. MROTD - September 9, 2007 1:33 AM
I wonder if it works with a spoon (or two) also, or if it only reacts to hands?
17. nominus - September 10, 2007 9:38 AM
#16:
There is no spoon
18. Samuel - September 10, 2007 10:37 AM
I NEED these pants. With these pants, I would die a happy man. How would I wash these drums, in my pants?
19. Violet Sin - September 10, 2007 3:39 PM
Those are the most annoying pants ever.
20. etperl - September 10, 2007 7:38 PM
Gives a new meaning to "beating off".
21. etperl - September 10, 2007 7:38 PM
Gives a new meaning to "beating off".
22. Rainne - September 10, 2007 8:21 PM
Lies. The drums are being played by someone off camera.
23. missa - September 11, 2007 9:35 AM
I still think it's fake. It's a video of a guy slapping his legs. A GUY SLAPPING HIS LEGS. I mean, show me the pants themselves with the electronics in them and the rest of the set-up at work. I must see to believe.
24. Metuse - September 12, 2007 6:48 PM
Have to chime in and agree with hjdfjhdh - being a musician for 25 years (though not a drummer but that hardly matters) Watch closely... There is NO WAY this guy could coordinate hit for hit with another off screen. If it was a drum machine perfectly quantized then this jack off would still not be able to get it hit for hit. The only possible situation would be to go through and time each hit (being hand or foot) in an video editing program and sync it that way and who the fuck is going to sit there for the week that would take?
It's too perfectly synced to be fake.