What components would i need to to turn vibration into light?

Hi guys (and possible girls ;-)

My name's Dale, this is my first post here.

I'm pretty new to electronics,and therefore have limited knowledge.

I'm working on a project and I'm trying to rig my drum kit so that every time i hit a drum it would light up! I'm guessing that I would need some kind of pressure or vibration sensor inside the drum.

I was wondering if anyone on this forum could offer some advice as to what avenue I should start researching or if anyone has attempted anything similar.

Any advice or pointers would be very much appreciated.

Regards

Dale

Dale,
You could start with a microphone or pickup and then feed that into an envelope detector and use that to turn the light on.

simpler...use a vibration switch (check ebay for vibration switch)...might need to filter for false triggers.

I've done this, different application but used for target sensors for a location based game, balls hitting them.