An electronic drum pad is basically a practice pad with a pressure sensor in it. When you hit the pad, the sensor transmits an impulse to the drum brain, which triggers whatever sample you've set up for that pad.
Its a drum kit. Ambling means vibrating and a pad is a flat surface. Therefore an ambling pad is a drum kit.
Man up and buy a real drum set
it's good to practice the 40 essential drum rudiments
It will make a noise. The pitch will depend on the type of drum.
You hit the pad and the electronics sense the impact, usually with an impact force sensor for different volumes, and the signal is sent to the soundboard via wire. On the soundboard there are multiple plug inputs. One for snare, bass drum, cymbols, etc. The "drum" itself doesn't make the noise but rather the input. You could plug a cymbol into the snare input and you would still get a snare sound. The soundboard just senses the initial impact and amplifies it as a drum piece.
A new brake pad and new drums together will cost about 250 dollars or somewhere in that neighborhood. It depends on different brake pad and drum brands.
Use a pad or using brushes, Brushes make the drum quieter when hit then when hit with a drumstick. The Brushes might make the drum sound a little bit different then when hit with a drumstick. A pad will also make it quieter, it sounds like the drum but only muffled. It's recommended that with a pad to use drumsticks and not brushes.
If the drum pad is not responding at all, you will need to buy a new drum pad from eBay or another seller. Rock Band does not sell replacement parts.
The Guitar Hero Games do not separate the Cymbals from their matching Drum pad. Hitting the Yellow cymbal is the same as hitting the Yellow Drum Pad.
worn out pad, warped rotor, broken brake caliper (or cracked drum, if drum brakes)
Beater pads will make the drum head last longer. So if you like the head you got, use a pad.
Try a different grade brake pad... My 2002 s-10 work truck was doing the same thing..