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Drum Set Cymbals – Making the Right Choice
Apr 22nd
Drum set cymbals are an important part of the drum set. Drum cymbals are essential because they add texture to music compositions. Cymbals can create strong accents, brightness and lightness to songs. Choosing the right cymbals for your drum set, keeping in mind the style of music to be performed, will greatly enhance the sound of the drums and music.
Cymbal properties
The sound produced by hitting cymbals may vary from cymbal to cymbal due to size, thickness, and make-up. Cymbal sizes can range anywhere from a 4″ bell to a 22″ ride, yet there are smaller and larger sizes available. You will More >
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SABIAN Cymbals Set-Up Builder
Feb 23rd
I guess this has been around for a while, but I only recently discovered it and I’d wish I knew about it when I was in the market to buy a new Drum Set with Cymbals.
It’s the Cymbal Set-Up Builder by SABIAN.
All you need to do is:
- Create your set-up from scratch OR
- Choose your favourite Sabian artist template, OR
- Choose a Genre template.
Then you can move things around, edit what drums you prefer and best of all, you can save your Sabian Cymbal Set-up and play the kit so you can find out what each cymbal sounds like. The only downside with More >
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Tour Of My Drum Kit – Phil McKenna
Oct 6th
Good quality tour of my drum kit with me, the lovable Phil Mckenna from Widnes [youtube gnyyIhf9wLo&feature=youtube_gdata]
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Biggest Electronic Drum Kit: Yamaha DTXpress
Sep 14th
A tour of quadbassblaster‘s two Yamaha DTXpress 2 drumkits joined together with custom created china and cymbal and splash pads with triggers bigger than Roland TD20 like a DIY experiment. This may not be the worlds biggest greatest largest drumkit like Terry Bozzio, but still not bad i think! Using hosa ypp117 ypp 117 adapters you can expand and split one port into 2 trigger inputs with separate sounds. The pedals are Sonor giant step copies, Morgan of Henker on Canibalblast video has them too, cymbals are Pintech Visulite wish i had a Ludwig Vistalite to go with them! There are many More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steve Smith: Legendary Drummer of ‘Journey’
Mar 1st
Today I discovered a drummer I had never seen before and was mighty impressed by his incredible drumming ability. His name is Steve Smith.
Steve Smith became famous for being in the successful rock band called Journey, back in the 1980s. Journey had several successful albums including the immensely popular “Escape” and “Frontiers“, both which had their own Top 40 Hits. With his inventive timekeeping and massive tom-toms, there’s no doubt Steve Smith’s ability helped drive Journey to success.
Check out this awesome drum solo by Steve Smith.
If you’re not too familiar with Journey’s music ,check out this vid and it might spark More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Popular Syndrome Of Shrinking The Drum Set And Cymbals
Jan 15th
Today I came across and interesting thread about why modern drummers are shrinking their drum set and cymbals.
It seems that there is a common trend these days to reduce the number of drums and cymbals on the drum set. This is particularly interesting given that during the 70′s and particularly 80′s, many rockstar drummers had massive drum sets that sometimes seemed a little over the top. This trend was seen especially among heavy metal and hard rock drummers such as Van Halen, Neil Peart, and Simon Phillips and I suppose even Phil Collins from Genesis was up there.
Phil Collins (In The Air More > (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...What is the Safe, Easy, Fast Way To Remove Fingerprints From Drum Set Cymbals?
Oct 20th
I don’t want to pay $30 or whatever it is for proper branded cymbal cleaner. Can anyone suggest an alternative?
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