Are you trying to play drums in a dorm room? When I lived in a dorm a few years back, me and 2 other guys on the same floor started a band. We got away with it for about a week, then they told us we had to get rid of the drums. So we didn't play for a week, then we put 2 t-shirts on the snare, one on each tom, and put a piece of corrugated cardboard over the kick head. We put another t-shirt over the bottom hi-hat with the rod going through the hole for your neck, so the t shirt dampened the hats when they were closed. We put a rubber tipped clamp on the ride and put masking tape all over it. No crash. And we only used hot rods. The kit sounded like shit, but we could almost get away with practicing (which we did almost daily. We got better so fast it was scary). It was definitely quieter. We would get yelled at at least once a week, it basically worked out so that if someone complained we had to stop. Its a good way to make a lot of people hate you. Was it worth it? **** yeah.
