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[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Though I can't see it in the picture, I assume it's got a female 1/8" stereo output jack somewhere? Otherwise, it'd just be controlling the heck out of a silent iPod.

Looks like a trick solution.

I'm currently about halfway through converting the Beatles complete box set to MP3's so I can put them on the iPod.

With this thing's capacity, I'm wondering if I even LIKE enough songs that'd fill it up.

We got a 1/8" stereo to 2-RCA adaptor yesterday and a 20-foot extension cord. Very cool. I'd been playing CDs in the living room's sound system and controlling the DVD player with the remote while I'm at the drum set. Meaning I had to get up and change CD's anytime I wanted a different song or album.

Now I just have the iPod on a little table next to me and use it to play whatever I feel like playing along with.

And for learning to play a drum set, there's nothing like just going through the whole Beatles library from start to finish. Had never paid attention before, but the drums were very simple at first (rarely used any of the toms) and gradually got more interesting.

What's a bear is trying to play Rush on a 5-piece kit. Even though I know what the drum track sounds like on any song of theirs, there's not only the challenge of too few surfaces to bang on, there's the fact that Neil Peart is an absolute monster and even the simplest stuff he has ever played is very technically difficult.