Sound proofing a room

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I wanna learn drums. I have two options...1) buy a shed and do it in there2) soundproof this small box room downstairs in this place I'm moving to this weekend. Two stories above that particular room are other tenents whom I do not wish to cause hastle with. I have been told sound-proofing ios expensive and requires alot of work. How do I do it? Or alternatively where do I turn to have it done?

Do you have a garden to put a shed in?

I am well aware of the social implications. However my college is rather odd hours and I am at home alot when everyone is at work which reduces the problems. I spoke to the people today and they are quite reasonable.Thanks for the advice. I may yet go for the shed option though I worry about how secure that would be.

Oh yes, we do.

Well if it were up to me, I'd get the shed. It'd be more than somewhere for the drums, but it would be a very personal area which you can use for an office or other specialised room. If you have a wireless router you can put a computer down there, etc..

Thats a interetsing idea, though I have a huge room so I dont really need the space all that much. Plus when it comes to having a shed I'm rather worried about security, the area where we're moving to is the burgerly centre of the city. How easy is it to make sheds sufficently secure?

If you're living in a high crime area then I'm not sure if its worth the effort. There are things that you can do but since its not attached to the house the measures taken would be less effective as securing a house.

I soundproofed my room easly. I got a 12 piece drum set, John Bonhman style, custom crafted!

There is this special type of wall paper thing you can buy at the music store, or at home depo. It works wonders! It gets really lonely sometimes lol.

What drumset do you have? If its a 3 piece set, I'll fly to leeds and strangle you! :grin:

I dotn have the drum set yet, I'll get it by the end of the year though. It will be good. I'm willing to dish out the extra hundreads of pounds to make sure its decent.

Get the one John Bonham made. it his signature one. It's more expensive, but you wont regret it! Listen to "Bonzo's Montreux" It's a drum solo by Bonham, if you like the sound, get it!

That all depends on the shed.
is it wood or tin?
was it built with 2 x 4's or 1 x 2's ?
is the skin very thick? is the skin built of pressed paper or of wood? are the hinges exposed or recessed ? can you get a screw driver or pry bar between the butts of two skin pieces ? does it have a base or simply sat on the ground?
My brother recently bought a new shed and asked me to help him put it up. He paid 800 dollars for it, its fucking junk ass shit. For the same amount I could of bought the material and put a pretty fucking decent one together myself on the concrete pa he had for it.
As it was we took another 300 dolars to buy more wood fto beef it up and put anchors into the cement for it, before it was flimsey, and shitty, and looked like a fucking brown and white barn. Thrown in another hundred bucks for the arc shingles that match his house, you can easy spend over 1000 Dollars to get half way decent shed. THe tin ones I can put a foot thru and walk right in, the wood ones you get what you pay for.
Consider also that you best have help, one person cant put in the rafters and anchor them and hold up whiles while the anchors ar put in, you need atleast 2 people, and 3 make it even easier.
Besides that you want good sound quality for practice, even a good drummer sounds lie shit in a accoustically shitty place. a wooden shed bounces sound all over and voices echo inside it, imagine what that sounds like trying to practice and learn.

if you wanna practice silently you can get an electric drum kit its not as good as the real thing but it can be used with headphones and is probrably less expensive than soundproofing a room and definatly less hastle

I checked the costs of them and it was a hell lot more expensive than a regualr drum kit. Couldnt find anything decent for cheaper than a couple thousand pounds and I dont have that much money.

I've always wanted to learn drums, too, and checked into them....I'd say screw the sound-proofing and save for the electronic kit. Much less hassle and you can pump the tunes you'd like to play along with into your kit. I know how much you want to do it all RIGHT NOW, but I think the wait would be worth it.

Luck!