Finger Drum Kit
Take this Finger Drum Kit: it is about as nano as a set of drums can get and definitely fun. Roughly the size of a mouse pad (23 x 20 x 3cm) and with a touch sensitive pad depicting a traditional drum kit, the Finger Drums have a snare, high hat, three tom toms, a base drum and two cymbals.

You just tap them and they play remarkably well through the in-built speaker. You can even record your best drum breaks and play them back. This Finger Drum kit comes with with eight authentic drum kit sounds and six demo drum patterns to accompany your repertoire. It even has adjustable tempo and volume levels to annoy your friends and family with.

You don\'t need a pair of drumsticks anymore, all you need are your fingers. It is powered by 4 AAA batteries and costs £ 19.95 each.

Trigger Finger
A second great way to perform expressive percussion and drum parts at your fingertips is M-Audio\'s Trigger Finger drum pad control surface. Now you can start to take full control of your drum programming. Its 16 velocity-sensitive pads are perfect for playing the drum sounds in your favorite software, launching loops and samples, or even controlling video projections. Applying pressure to the pads can generate any MIDI controller you wish.

Trigger Finger also gives you 8 knobs and 4 faders that are freely assignable to MIDI parameters such as volume, pan, pitch, and effects. A simple USB cable is all it takes to connect and power Trigger Finger with your computer.

Fingerstix
Prefer less electronics and a more basic approach? Earthone\'s Fingerstix were designed to provide the drum set artist, percussionist and hand drummer with a new world of musical expression. The most common use is 2 pairs attached to the index and middle fingers. However many popular variations provide other creative. Nothing to plug in - with these Fingersticks you\'re good to go right away.

Watch inventor and professional drummer Anthony Miranda demonstrating the techniques and dynamic possibilites of Fingerstix! Click for part 1, part 2 and part 3.

Drumbar
Last but not least we would like to present you Starr Lab\'s Drumbar: a 60-pad finger drum controller which you can play while standing up to offer you more mobility while on-stage. The Drumbar configures 24 programmable 2-Zone drum pads along the top surface of a hollow aluminum two-by-four. Twelve pads are also aligned along the side surfaces of the Drumbar to allow striking both the top surface and the side surfaces using an easy wrist motion.

The 12 pads on the sides each have the Chord Record function which allows storage and playback of multiple notes which may be selected from the top surface in real time. Also they may be used to send MIDI controller messages.

The Drumbar outputs MIDI to the full 16 channels. Each pad is individually assignable to a channel and note number. A 2 line by 40 character LCD display is used to enter and monitor program information.