The whole world is a drum to a drummer: pot, pan, bucket, floor, body parts, wall, washing machine; anything if attacked, beats like a drum. Parents, teachers, roommates or neighbors struggle to understand this muse, obsession, and cadence. Play to your muse; just find somewhere miles away from the so-called civilized world to embrace it. Yeah, we get it. Been there.

Percussion Designs understands the meaning of "woodshed, basement, garage" because we play drums too. We've done time in the garage. Drummers and garages kinda go together. Price you pay for banging one supposes.

Drummer, instructor and inventor of the Kieffa Practice Drum (Keith Pickens) spent a lot of time in a garage, practicing, playing and tinkering with stuff to play, including drum pads. What started out as tinkering became a quest for a better practice pad. The quest eventually evolved into a full blown obsession. The result, after years of trial and error, is the Kieffa Practice Drum Series.

Percussion Designs products are engineered with the woodshed or garage in mind, replacing conventional practice pads with performance designed rehearsal instruments. Kieffa’s patented technology reduces the volume level associated with acoustic drums, redefining the definition of DRUM pad. Volume is reduced; stick articulation, rebound and response are not, eliminating the drummer’s historical conundrum: less response for less volume.

Kieffa no longer makes it's pads in a garage, but the company still embodies the pursuit for the holy grail of drum pads. The Keiffa Practice Drum Series is a reflection of this pursuit. We are evolutionary in body and revolutionary in spirit and want you as our customer to participate with us in this effort. We offer drummers a wide variety of styles and performance metrics, each suited to the individual needs of the student, player, performer or instructor.

Percussion Designs is delighted to see the quality of their products better than import quality. When you purchase our American-made drum pads, you keep your friends and neighbors-and even yourself-earning a living wage. For generations, the strength of our country rested on the power of our factory floors and the men and women who worked them. We recognize our pads aren't cheap, far from it.

However, purchasing our products not only insures you receive a superior built drum pad designed by drummers for drummers, but allows us to employ Americans at a living wage, grow the company with friends, neighbors and drummers, and innovate our process in the pursuit of the holy grail, creating "the best drum pad on the planet."