Two people in my house play drums. "Play" drums. They can not maintain a 4/4 beat. They change every other second. One second, it's just the bass drum with a snare every 8th bass drum, real slow. Then? HORRIBLE DRUM ROLL DOUBLE BASS FOR A MINUTE. They do this every other day, for 2 hours. They haven't learnt a thing about playing drums.
When we approached them about muffling the drums, and maybe getting a book, they instead moved the drums to the basement and put cardboard on the heads, to "muffle" them. Instead of towels on top, and pillows inside, which would muffle it, the cardboard just adds a raspy sound to everything, and makes everything sound flat and horrible. They can't make drums sound worse, you think, until they do.
