Moving drum set? Help!

[RedTsunami]

Just got my RB drums today. among a couple of problems, this one is the most troubling...

when I use the drum set on a carpet, during the first quarter of the song on hard mode, I do pretty well, and keep a decent multiplyer, however, after that point, my score just falls apart. Whenever I use the bass pedal, it moves the set a little further away, thus making my score worse, as I have to "feel my way around" for where the drums are.

I imagine this has to be a somewhat common problem, since "rug" is pretty common in most living rooms.

And I can tell you right now, I'm not hitting the pedal too fast or too hard, I'm using the same amount of speed a real life drummer would use.

Does anybody have a solution to this? Any help would be appreciated.

[AeroZeppelinSevenfold]

put the drums around something heavy so they don't move. like a couch.

or tape it to the floor. these are just quick easy solutions.

[arnie335]

I had the same problem. I just took some shoelaces and strapped them around the bottom of the drums and tied them to my drum throne. Drums cant move anymore.

[v0lum3]

... really? I'm either going to assume that you're hitting the drums way to hard or that you're sitting too far away from them. Your leg should be at around a 90 degree angle... you should be pressing straight down on the pedal... if you're not then the pressure from your leg could be moving the set... My suggestion is to find an actual drum throne if you're not using one, they make the height adjustment easier.

Mine have never moved at all on me... and I've been drumming on hard and expert since day one. Wait, no, they have moved, about half an inch... in the last month and a half... If you're bouncing your sticks allowing them to rebound like they should there shouldn't be a problem from your sticks... proper leg alignment and not driving your sticks through your set should fix your problem.

[RedTsunami]

... really? I'm either going to assume that you're hitting the drums way to hard or that you're sitting too far away from them. Your leg should be at around a 90 degree angle... you should be pressing straight down on the pedal... if you're not then the pressure from your leg could be moving the set... My suggestion is to find an actual drum throne if you're not using one, they make the height adjustment easier.

Mine have never moved at all on me... and I've been drumming on hard and expert since day one. Wait, no, they have moved, about half an inch... in the last month and a half... If you're bouncing your sticks allowing them to rebound like they should there shouldn't be a problem from your sticks... proper leg alignment and not driving your sticks through your set should fix your problem.
I AM hitting it at a 90 degree angle...and this is going to sound newbish, but what's a drum throne? One of those spinning stools you can buy?

EDIT: wow...throne=chair/stool. How could I not realize that...

anyways, to the other guy who posted with the shoelace idea, I'm gonna try that too...

[JB4GDI]

Yeah, I just put something heavy like my backpack, chair, or giant bottle of poland spring in front of the drums. I should try the shoelace thing though.

-Jaime

[wampdawg]

Ihave a cement floor in my basement and my drums were moving until I set a cinder block infront of them. Now I am good to go.

[JamesJessen]

That's strange....on my wodd floor my drum set doesn't get almost any traction and would run away from me on hard/expert to the point where I started to just not use my overdrive, and instead I would use this time to readjust my drum set. lol. But on carpet floor my set hardly/never moves....maybe we should trade sets. lol.

[ima747]

I have the same problem with "slipage". I didn't when I first got RB, but it has developed along with my limmited drumming skills. My GF has no issues whatsoever so I can report it's not a drum issue but a play style thing. However the best solution I've found is to put one of those rocking "gaming chairs" on it's side, on top of the foot that usualy slides the most. A backpack with some cans of beans in it would do the same thing. It doesn't take much, but just a little more down force on that foot stops it sliding around.

That or have an impartial third party observe you and someone who doesn't slide and try to determine what you're doing wrong in the heat of the moment... but that's embarassing hehe

[aallanscbb]

i just oposite the layout of a real band, and put the drum set right in the front, up against the entertainment unit.