Development of Interactive Musical Drum

Abstract— This paper aims to present the development of a musical instrument simulator called “Air-Drum” which consists of station, display, and playback unit. Simulator to play drum along music was proposed for a beginner who is starting to learn how to play a drum to practice with fun and follow instruction every similar like learning from a musical instructor. Before practical use, the performance evaluation was made with three scenarios of testing, which are freestyle for playing on selected mode no.1, random hit for mode no. 2 and left-foot pedal (Pedal Hi-hat) for mode no.3. The questionnaire survey was used for collecting the user’s satisfaction toward the proposed simulator. The overall mean and S.D. values obtained from survey revealed the excellent level with mean value of 4.70 and S.D. value of 0.40, respectively. It suggested that the proposed Air-Drum simulator is successful in helping users to learn playing drum with highly satisfied experience. The experts’ assessment on the quality of Air-Drum showed a very good quality level toward the proposed simulator.

Keywords: Air-Drum, Arduino, Led Strip Light