Last night I am playing Rock Band. I am trying to 5-star all Easy songs. I have the main game songs completed and all of the downloaded songs that I have except the Metallica songs which are all 4 starred. So I start with Ride the Lightening and make it though the song warming up. There is quite a bit of kick drum in the song and I need a couple run troughs to get prepared.

On my third run I am doing great, keeping my multiplier at 4x and not messing up the fills. Then I feel this weird lump under my foot. It was like my sock had balled up or something. I finish the song and almost have the 5 star but not quite. I look down and my kick drum pedal has split in half.

The break was just behind the spring so it still works but most likely not for long. I am thinking of buying a real kick pedal and trying my hand at improvising some thing more sturdy and like the real thing.

Here are a couple examples I found:

• Simple
• Complex

Any drummers have an old kick pedal laying around that I could purchase cheaply?