Drum Pad

Drum Pad is a Streamer is a lightweight Yahoo! gadget built specifically for helping you practice and improve your drum playing skills.
It sports a clean interface that offers only a few configuration settings to tinker with.
The gadget gives you the possibility to play the drums using your mouse, so you cannot assign hotkeys for mastering the entire process.
What’s more, you are allowed to configure the drum patterns pretty easily, thanks to its built-in sliders. On the downside, you cannot export your musical compositions to a file.
Other options offered by the Yahoo! environment give you the possibility to prevent the windows from being dragged, set the opacity level, and ignore mouse events.
You can also make the gadget stay on top of other applications, and this proves to pretty useful, especially when dealing with multiple tools at the same time. What’s more, you can hide or close the widget, and move it to any area of the screen.
Since it doesn’t comprise many configuration settings of its own, even rookies can master the process with just a few clicks. During our testing we have noticed that Drum Pad carries out a task very quickly, provides good audio quality, and no errors showed up throughout the entire process.
As it would be expected from such a small utility, it remains light on system resources, so it doesn’t burden the overall performance of the computer, nor interfere with other programs’ functionality.
To sum things up, Drum Pad offers a simple software solution when it comes to helping you create musical drum patterns. It can be easily configured and installed by all types of users, regardless of their experience level.