To cover bands like lamb of god with a small kit (4 piece)

pepsi_lovr · Newbie Alert Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

Is it possible to cover bands like CoB or LoG with a four piece kit or am I kidding myself? I know I can do the verse and chorus parts easilly with my kit, but how would i do the fills?

thx in advance

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SketcHyRollin564 · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject:

it depends on how accurate you want to cover the song. if you want to hit every single tom that he hits in the fills, you need to have the right (or atleast close to) number of toms.

If your just wanting to do the basic idea, if he does 4 hits on an 8, then 4 on a 10, 12, 14, and 16, but you only have a 4 piece, then what you would have to do is split it between the only two toms that you have. So instead of hitting it 4 times on the 5 toms that you dont have, just hit it a bunch of times on the 2 that you do have

i dont know of that made any sence, but i hope it helped
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TRIB · Lion King Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 1242 Location: AZ

If you want to accurately cover the song, I'd go with what Sketchy said, even though it is really accurate at all. I, however, would take the opportunity to add some of your own jazz or funk fills... it could prove interesting, haha.

TheLegace · Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject:

If you dont have a double kick you cannot play this song, as for tom stuff, you can subsitute or floor tom as one of the rack toms Chris Adler uses.

But comeone your playing metal and all you have is a 4 piece.
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smokingun · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject:

Yeah I play metal on a 4 piece. But I'm not playing covers. Since I took away the 2nd rack tom I finally have my RIDE where I want it.

thomo · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

Practically every drummer in my area who is in a metal or hardcore band plays on a four piece kit. It seems to be the fashion at the moment. They all make it work though. In fact one of these bands cover 'Laid to rest' by Lamb of God. I'm sure it's not 100% accurate to what Chris Adler does but it does'nt really matter cos it still sounds good.

Thomo

tama-mama-dude · Tadpole Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 15

i recently saw killswitch engage and chimaira

chimaira kit was ur typical 10 piece double kit

and killswitch surprised me with a 4 piece, he didnt even have a second bass

and only about 4 cymbals

smokingun · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject:

wow dude, "KE" is cool... I'm suprised at what he can do with such a tiny one...

kuniggety · Lion Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 906 Location: Okinawa

smokingun · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject:

lol... YEAH WORDS "i" HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE OF COURSE...

Jmurphy2011 · Newbie Alert Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Ohio

I took off my second tom and only have a high tom and a floor tom and i play metal all the time. Mostly bcc i have a double kick and plenty of cymbals, including a china, mini china, two crash, a ride, and a splash. Its a lot easier if you do some fills with the cymbals.
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Luke · Ferret Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 109

Well, i have the same problem. Imagine covering Slipknot. They have three drummers and my band only has one (Me) i find it helps to listen to hatever your playing ALOT![/quote]