Breaking Down A Trap Box

Video Transcript

"I'm Shaun Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'm going to show you how to pack up your drum kit efficiently. We're almost finished packing up the drum kit. The next thing I like to do, before we pack up the high hat stand, the kick drum, and the kick drum pedal, is what I do is I go ahead and put the stick bag into my trap box as well, and there's a really nice area down here that it fits in. And then also my cowbell, which sometimes I use and sometimes I don't. And then my extra kick drum pedal, I know this looks like really hideous and you're like "How could you use that", but it's just broken down right now so it can be at its' flattest possible spot. So I just slam those things in there, and as you can see if you look in here, the amount of things I have in here and the amount of space I have leftover, is excellent. I could have just thrown everything in here and things get broken, and I've done that before to where I've just packed it up as quickly as possible, and I don't have room for the seat, and the stick bag. Well, you know what, look at that! I could put three more stands in there if I wanted to, and that's the benefit of packing something efficiently. So this box is packed up, let's go ahead and slap the lid on and go ahead and fasten. And this is another reason you want your straps to be pretty tight, because this is going to go in a van and probably going to be going on down the road for a couple hundred miles. And then what I like to do, after I do that, is just physically lift it up, and move it out of the way. Now as you can see, we still have our original pack up area left to finish packing up these last three items, so let's go ahead and take a look at what those are."