NationStates Jolt Archive

Since there's a Guitarists thread, let's unite the drummers!

What do you play? How long ya been playin'? What's your gear?

Me: Been playin' drums for 16 years, prefer to wail on the drums Keith Moon style.

My gear: Pork pie 6-piece, 22" x 18" bass; 10" x 8", 12" x 10", and 14" x 12" toms; 16" x 16" floor tom; 5" x 14" snare. Zildjian 16" medium-thin crash, 20" medium ride, 14" New Beat hats, some cow bells and hat mounted tamborine.

No pics right now (in development), but here's my daughter on her Sonor 5 piece kit:

http://www.unlc.biz/images/winter_drum.jpg

Wooo!

Oh c'mon ... surely I'm not the only one ....

Most Percussionists in my school band are either elitests, or total morons. We have two who are normal, out of maybe ten or fifteen. They make up maybe a tenth of our band. So annoying. Not saying you are, I'm just venting. If I had a second choice of instruments, it would be a tie between Accordian and Percussion, and if Drum Sets and Accordians weren't so expensive, I would learn both. I play Alto and Tenor Saxaphone right now. I wish your daughter good luck at percusion. :) Is learning percussion very hard, or is it easy. I'm good at keeping a beat in my head, and I figure that would be really helpfull, right?

My brother is very.. loud. He's got two sets of drums and huge speakers in his room which is practically most of the basement.. or the bassment as he likes to call it. My parents are going to force him to spend his own money to make his room sound-proof.

I've been playing for about 4 years now.

I play mostly Rush and other stuff for fun, but at school I'm drummer in our Jazz band and a multi-percussionist in the concert band (off hand, I play Timpani, Suspended cymbals, woodblocks, tambourines, bells and bass drum in a song or two).

I have a Tama Swingstar 5-piece, I don't actually know the specs, with cymbals as follows:
A Zildjian Thin Crash, 16'
A Zildjian Splash, 10'
A Zildjian Medium Ride, 20'
Sabian B8 Hi-Hats, 14'
Zildjian XBT Crash-Ride, 18'
Sabian X20 Rock Crash

Oh, almost forgot my woodblock! Love that thing!

Most Percussionists in my school band are either elitests, or total morons. We have two who are normal, out of maybe ten or fifteen. They make up maybe a tenth of our band. So annoying. Not saying you are, I'm just venting. If I had a second choice of instruments, it would be a tie between Accordian and Percussion, and if Drum Sets and Accordians weren't so expensive, I would learn both. I play Alto and Tenor Saxaphone right now. I wish your daughter good luck at percusion. :) Is learning percussion very hard, or is it easy. I'm good at keeping a beat in my head, and I figure that would be really helpfull, right?

Wow, it's the same here. Two of the four of us are so arrogant (not me). The other one, she's pretty nice. But the other two guys are so damn arrogant. It irritates me to no end, and the concert band one blaims the jazz band for every little disorganization in our percussion section. /vent

Most Percussionists in my school band are either elitests, or total morons. We have two who are normal, out of maybe ten or fifteen. They make up maybe a tenth of our band. So annoying.

Wow, it's the same here. Two of the four of us are so arrogant (not me). The other one, she's pretty nice. But the other two guys are so damn arrogant. It irritates me to no end, and the concert band one blaims the jazz band for every little disorganization in our percussion section. /vent

A drummer is the musician's best friend. :)

Besides a varity of wind insterments while I do not play set I have marched tennor and snare for both marching band and drum corps

I dont have a set of my own anymore [my parents made it a point to buy the cheapest set in the store when they got one for me; it fell apart after about 4 or 5 years] but the last one I played was a freak combination of a Tama Swingstar 5 piece and a Slingerland 500 5 piece [minus snare] so it was a nine piece set with 4 toms, a double bass, three crashes [one Sabian B8 Pro 16 inch, one Sabian signature crash of some sort [18 inch] and a Zildjian 16 inch crash], two rides, and two hi-hats [which I shortly figured out how to operate with one foot].

Clearly the most obscene part about that set was the presence of the almost superfluous second hi-hat, but it sounded fucking awesome when I rolled off both of them.

When I get back together with my band, I'm gonna work in a gimmick where I play tenor saxophone and drum [sorta, with my feet at least] at the same time. It's gonna own. If anyone here lives in the Tennessee valley area, I will DEMAND! you be present at my gigs!

Tama Swingstar kit
Remo Pinstripe Heads on the toms
Middle tom removed
Remo CS Dot on the snare
Tama heads on the bass drum and on the bottoms of the toms
Remo hazy ambassador on the bottom of the snare
Tama hi-hat stand
LP cowbell mounted on the bass drum
Pearl boom/straight cymbal stands
Zildian ZBT 13" hi-hats
Zildian 20" Control ride
Sabian 14" Studio Crash
Unlabeled 16" crash cymbal
LB woodblock mounted on a Tama straight cymbal stand
Vic Firth 7AN sticks

If you're in NY, come check out my gigs.

I'm a girly drummer. I've got a rubbish kit, with half-decent Zildjian cymbals. Been playing for nearly 2 years.

ahem www.theacorahs.co.uk