OK, let’s say this Halloween you’re all set to go out dressed up as well…a drummer. Not really any specific drummer, just yourself. How can you add anything to this costume besides just bringing your drumsticks with you?

You could bring your practice drum pad, but that would look kind of lame, and people would probably think that you are carrying around a drink coaster. A cool option is inflatable bongo’s. Yes you read that correctly, inflatable bongo drums.

The ones I found above are only $3.99 and you can easily carry these around with or without drumsticks. This is also probably the most inexpensive Halloween Costume ever.

In case you haven’t noticed I created a new page on this blog entitled “Halloween Costume Ideas.” I thought drummers/musicians would find this useful when brainstorming costume ideas this year. It’s pretty hard to come up with ideas that are centered around drumming or drummers.

On that page I gave an example for the ladies of dressing up like Meg White of The White Stripes. For guys though, another great example I thought of would be Tre Cool of Green Day. Now, I don’t expect you to lug around an entire set of Ludwig drums but a Tre Cool costume is relatively easy.

First of all, you’ll need to spike up your hair, if it’s not long enough you can choose from any number of Halloween wigs. Make sure they’re not too long though (you’re going for the look in the pic above). As far as clothes, any t-shirt will do but preferably a Green Day t-shirt, grab a pair of drumsticks and you’re ready to go. Since Green Day released “American Idiot” and that album was huge, a lot of younger kids will recognize this costume and besides the wig and drumsticks, there is little you have to spend money on.