Practice Rooms and Drums at Binghamton

<p>Hey folks</p>

<p>I'm a drummer, and I want to keep up my drum skills in college (maybe even join a band while I'm there). </p>

<p>I'm pretty sure I won't be able to bring my electric drum set up to Binghamton. But I'll just ask anyway, since I haven't visited yet...could this fit in a dorm (link to image of my set below)? <a href="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/hptech4564/DSCF8817.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o310/hptech4564/DSCF8817.jpg&lt;/a&gt;)
I imagine not, and I'm not sure if my roommate would be alright with it, but you never know.</p>

<p>And I'm not going to be a music major. So I'm wondering if there will practice rooms with drum sets for non-music majors to use with a fee. I've heard that similar arrangements exist at other schools like SUNY at Buffalo, but I googled it and I'm still not sure if these rooms are available to non-music majors at Binghamton.</p>

<p>Any info or advice would be great!
Thanks!!!</p>

<p>The set I have is pretty quiet, BTW.</p>

<p>I think you need to contact the music department. I know that there are practice rooms, but I have no idea how available they are or what they contain. Some do have pianos.</p>

<p>There is a percussion practice room that has mallet percussion instruments, and you can set up a snare drum. The only room that I know of that has a kit set up is the Jazz Ensemble room. In order to have a key to that, you must be a section leader in the jazz band, or lead a group that needs to access that room. You might be able to arrange something with the jazz director or music department if you are charismatic enough.</p>

<p>As far as practice rooms go, keys are issued to non-majors, but they must be enrolled in a music ensemble of some sort(orchestra, symphonic band, piano, jazz, …). Some theatre students are issued keys too.</p>

<p>Your drum kit will likely fit in your dorm. I brought my keyboard last semester, and its large(88 keys), and I managed to fit it. You may have to sacrifice your refrigerator though.</p>