Yamaha DD35AD Touch-Sensitive Digital Drums with Guide Lights and AC Adapter

by Yamaha

Product Features

• 4 lighted, touch-sensitive pads
• 100 built-in songs to play along with
• 128 assignable percussion voices
• Digital reverb and chorus DSP effects built into voices

Product Details

Product Manual [673kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00005K9CH
• Item model number: DD35AD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,783 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

For the aspiring drummer, Yamaha produced the DD35AD. It features four lighted, touch-sensitive drum pads, an ergonomic design, and 128 percussion voices assignable to any pad. The lighted pads guide any budding drummer in a quest to learn. The DD35AD also includes 100 built-in songs for directed playing.

This machine features a built-in speaker and a headphone jack, and it includes drum sticks. It is powered by an included Yamaha PA3B power adapter or eight optional AA-size batteries.

Yamaha provides a one-year limited warranty on parts and labor.

Product Description

The new Yamaha Digital Drum System brings an exciting feature to digital drums: guide lamps. Digital keyboards have long used guide lamps to help novices play the right notes at the right time. (Yamaha has been a leader in this technology.) Now, aspiring drummers get the same assistance. This system takes full advantage of this feature with built-in activities using the lighted rings around the drum pads to make it fun and educational. The pads can be used with drum sticks or hands. Includes 4 lighted, touch-sensitive drum pads, 128 drum and other percussion voices, 100 built-in songs to play along with and hand percussion mode adds realism to playing with hands Drumsticks are also included. Imported. Total Dimensions: 4Hx9-1/2Wx18-1/4D". Weight: 3-3/4 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice gift for a budding musician, June 9, 2002

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Glenn R. Howes (Nashua, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha DD35AD Touch-Sensitive Digital Drums with Guide Lights and AC Adapter (Electronics)

I bought this for my 18 year old brother who is learning to play the guitar, and I've gotten nothing but positive feedback from home where he and my other younger siblings have been having a good time learning to play the drums.

I took 1 star away because I was hoping it could be used as a drum machine, but apparently it stores less than a minute of performance, making it inappropriate for a single person to play both the drums and guitar, and it has limited drum machine functionality. Still, it has a high fun to price ratio, and I was glad to give such a well appreciated gift.

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good sounding drum machine., February 5, 2003

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C. Flynn (Fort Smith, Arkansas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha DD35AD Touch-Sensitive Digital Drums with Guide Lights and AC Adapter (Electronics)

I bought the DD-35 machine last year, It has a great digital drum sound..I play it through my head phones along with my cd player.BUT!...be warned..This machine startes to short out after about six weeks of steady playing!..I returned it to the music store for another, several weeks later the same thing. Then I ordered one from amazon,I discovered the only way to over-come this problem was to remove the rubber drum pads and place them on a SEPARATE playing platform...that way the electronics don't take a banging and short out..I had to lenthen the wires from the drum machine to another playing board. but now it should last many years this way...Yamaha should design this machine with a separate playing surface.But all and all..a good sounding drum machine.So with all that being said..it really deserves only a couple stars.

41 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for the Fidgety Teen!, November 16, 2001

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This review is from: Yamaha DD35AD Touch-Sensitive Digital Drums with Guide Lights and AC Adapter (Electronics)

I bought this Digital Drum for my fidgety 14 year old daughter. She is always beating on something, and I thought that she would really enjoy this! She did, and all of her friends want one now! I look forward to hearing her really get going on it!