{"id":193,"date":"2007-12-29T14:45:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T19:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/rocking-out-quietly\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T19:45:32","slug":"rocking-out-quietly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/rocking-out-quietly\/","title":{"rendered":"rocking out&#8230; quietly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had friends visiting and they brought their PS3 and Rock Band game &#8211; so much fun! The game is played with a guitar, drums and a microphone &#8211; but the noise of the drumsticks hitting the drums is LOUD, so you have to play at high volume to hear the song over your drumming. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/rockband1.jpg\" alt=\"rock band\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We needed a quick solution for this (didn&#8217;t want to use up valuable game time), so I wrapped the tips of the drumsticks with multiple layers of batting and used some stretch denim from my stash to sew a quick sleeve to cover each tip. Then we just tied the sleeves onto the sticks by wrapping household string around the bottom of the sleeves <em>very<\/em> tightly. They worked really well to muffle the sound of the sticks hitting the drums without impeding the gameplay. And they look kind of cool too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/rockband2.jpg\" alt=\"modified quieter rock band drumsticks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For any other Rock Band owners, the other way to modify it (this takes longer and requires specific supplies) would be to add foam padding to the drum pads &#8211; I just did some googling and found a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/game-talk\/showthread.php?t=40248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">run-down of mods<\/a> others have tried. Or just buy some rubber-tipped drumsticks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had friends visiting and they brought their PS3 and Rock Band game &#8211; so much fun! The game is played with a guitar, drums and a microphone &#8211; but the noise of the drumsticks hitting the drums is LOUD, so you have to play at high volume to hear the song over your drumming. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}