Clamping it at the fulcrum will give it a more responsive throw and rebound off the head. Next comes the hi-hat, which you want set up with the same considerations for ergonomics as your bass drum pedal. You want a direct, straight line from the toe of your hi-hat pedal up through your leg to your hip flexor. Hi-hat height is another important but very personal choice, which depends a lot on your playing style.
Most drummers play some combination of open-handed and crossover playing, and so the height of the hi-hats will be somewhere in between. Find the height that allows you to comfortably alternate those stick positions with alternating eighth-notes while playing a backbeat beats 2 and 4 on the snare. While sitting upright and centered, your hi-hat and snare should be easily reachable and comfortable to play without overextending at all. Another thing to remember is that you can adjust the height of the upper tube of the hi-hat stand in order to find a more comfortable playing position for your hi-hats.
After placing the hi-hats, you should move on to the ride cymbal. You need to find a good spot that has enough space to position the ride without getting in the way of any of your other drums. Since you play the ride with the same hand that you play the hi-hat with, most drummers place their ride cymbal to the right side of their drum kit.
One of the best spots to place it is in between the middle tom and the floor tom. Having it there will feel natural to play on. Moving onto crash cymbals , most drummers play with a few of them. However, the most common position to place a crash cymbal is above your hi-hats, and to the left of the high tom. Having your hi-hats, crash, and ride placed like this is the most standard cymbal setup that most drummers use.
If you have more than one crash, you could place the second one next to the ride cymbal. Some drummers like to place the second crash to the left of the ride while others like to place it to the right. If you only have one splash cymbal, you should place it in a position that is easy to reach and that will add a unique dynamic to your cymbal playing. One common splash cymbal placement is to put it between the two rack toms.
Having it there will allow you to easily play it in between drum fills. It will also allow for some diverse interplay between the splash and the hi-hats. The way you set your drums up will determine how comfortable you feel behind the kit. Before thinking about how to set your drums up , you need to remember to do it ergonomically.
There are a few standard ways of setting your kit up. There are also a few unconventional drum set configurations that you could go for. Look through all of them and decide which setup sounds like the best one for you. You may find that you like more than one drum kit configuration, which brings us to the topic of switching things around.
Have you ever felt stuck in your playing? One of the best ways to counter this is to change your drum kit setup. Having your drums in different positions is a fantastic way of sparking creativity. This will lead you to experiment a bit more with sounds and ideas. Changing your environment is a tried and tested way of sparking new ideas.
For example, you could add an extra rack tom to your setup and find yourself playing things that you never have before. Every drummer should change their setup every now and then. It will make things fresh and exciting. It will also inspire you to play more.
These are all very common drum setup ideas. Each of them has a drum setup diagram so that you can clearly see how everything is positioned. The hi-hat placement is usually on the left side, above the playing surface of the snare drum if a player is right-handed. On the opposite, for left-handed drummers, the hi-hat will be on the right side. An indispensable part of the hi-hat is the foot pedal.
The steps to go through the setting up hi-hat are:. The ride cymbal can have the role of a crash cymbal to get a distinctive sound, but my recommendation is to use the real crash cymbal for this part, as these cymbals exist for a reason. If the hi-hat cymbal is on your left side, the ride will be on the right. The steps to go through setting up the ride cymbal are:.
All in all, you can place more than one crash on both sides. Setting up a crash is the same as with the ride. Place the cymbal on a cymbal stand that has felts.
These felts can prevent possible cracks. Effect cymbal is a cymbal in a drum kit that will give your sound those special effects and accents. The two main types of effect cymbals are splashes and china cymbals, but there are other types — like stack cymbals and others. Splashes are the smallest effect cymbals in a drum kit that are great for making accents in a song. The best way to set up a splash cymbal is to place it on a stand with a mini-boom attached to it — this creates enough space for both cymbals.
China is usually placed on the right side of the drum kit, right next to the ride. Once you place it on a stand, adjust it in a way you can easily make those great accents with the right hand — or the left hand, depending on where you place it. You can open endless possibilities with stack cymbals.
You can fit different types of cymbals, and as long as they fit well together, you are good to go. Whether they are manufactured or stacked by you, they will give great identity to your play. When it comes to the sound, you can tailor it to your liking, and all of this depends on how tight these two cymbals are mounted. Not only that cymbal care and maintenance can prevent your cymbals from cracking, but the way you set up them can also prevent damage.
Before you place the cymbals, you should always make sure that you have cymbal sleeves and felts on your cymbal stands. That way, you will prevent metal-on-metal contact and possible cracks around the bell. Also, make sure that you angle them a little bit toward you and that the cymbals can move free once you place the wing nut on them.
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