New drum kit design?

Mr.Clam · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: New drum kit design?

I was messing around with the DW kitbuilder, and came up with an idea. It's a sort of Left handed/right handed combination. The idea is to put the bass drum on the left side, and use a left-legged double bass drum pedal to control it, and have a two-legged hi-hat stand against the bass drum. This means that you cna have all of your tom-toms together, and more cymbals. What do you think?

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sfauts · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:40 am Post subject:

Sounds like you're overcomplicating things to me.

Mr.Clam · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:50 am Post subject:

Well, i suppose it depends on how much you use your toms, i like to add polyrythms to normal drum beats using them, so I like them to be closer together
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sfauts · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:10 am Post subject:

It'd be a very expensive way of doing things, and would affect the sound in small un-amplified venues.

If you want toms close together, either get a decent mounting system, or a rack.

Iron-Gland · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:48 am Post subject:

It would work, but unless you get good at it, fitting that hi-hat in there right at gigs would be pretty tough. Sounds semi-complicated. Razz

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sway · Tadpole Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 26 Location: U.S

Hey i think thats actually interesting idea. IF i had money to waste i would go for it. I dont have nearly any of that. But if i could even buy anything i would do the rack thing or what ive wanted for a while. Get compressed toms so i can get them flat and really low down but still super close together! And if you want to do those polyrythms and all that you might just have to practice speed and presicion around your kit like i did. My toms arent super close iether but i did some Thomas Lang exercises and it helped out alot. I used to get rim sometimes now its nothing but skins.

Mr.Clam · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:19 am Post subject:

Maybe you could send me a link to (or explain) the Thomas Lang exercies. I'm pretty prone to hitting the rims when playing quickly. I've tried picturing a dot in the centre of each, but no luck....
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sway · Tadpole Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 26 Location: U.S

Hey man all you do is triplets. Rlr Lrl. Accent the on being the capitol letters and repeat. Lets ay you have a standard 5 piece set up. Start with the snare and your going to play the accents on the first tom. So 123 123 or Tom snare snare Tom snare snare. THen you move it to the second tom and then the floor. The hardest is getting the left hand. After you do that then you start on the first tom. so 123 123 or Snare tom tom Snare tom tom. Playing the same thing but instead of originating it around the snare you do it from the first tom to everything else. then the second tom then the floor tom. Then you throw in the cymbals. No matter how hard it seems do it anyways. It makes your arms so freakin quick from on place to another and precise. Oh yeah and do it makes you good at double bass if you do it in unison with your feet.
Good luck

Mr.Clam · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:03 am Post subject:

Thanks, i'll have a go at that later Very Happy

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leshok · Not So Newbie Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 8

seriously try out the new setup before i do Smile

007david · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject:

You know, that's not too dissimilar from the setup I've been using lately. Mine is this:

Now, over the bass drum is an 18" china, 17" and 16" crashes. All of these are supported by a rope connected to a large dowel which is being balanced by the ride.
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007david · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

Oh, I want to! But I can't find my digital camera and I'm not about to waste a roll of film on it.

Heck, It's even been made more extravagant in that all three toms and the splashes are all held by one dinky little stand.
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007david · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject:

Okay, I stole my roommate's camera for this, so should anyone oddly happen to both know him and that I live with him, keep quiet about it.

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