Drummer Karl
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Re: What annoys you on peoples drum sets?
Well...nothing actually annoys me on people`s kits or equipment.
Having adjusted the drums or cymbals in a different way is a personal thing. For me is important that a beginning drummer gets to know how to set-up their stuff "right".
With right I mean setting it up in the most comfortable way for the body.
Then, with the time you learn and "collect" experience...and all those things like technique, style and also the set-up changes and developes. You know, you notice how you (as an individual human) are built....and you may change this and that on the kit to feel comfortable. Although there are borders**...!!! But I don`t like to set them around one small point. When I started to play drums I thought that you have to set it up with an IKEA building plan if you know...but very fastly this opinion disappeared, luckily. For example Roy Haynes has his rack toms far away from each other, for many people a no-no but he feels great on and plays awesome on it...so why not?
And just yesterday I had to play on another kit for a gig, a cool Sonor Lite but wooo...the worst adjustments for me...unfortunatly I couldn`t change anything, no time and this whole set-up was too complicated to change anything!
But it didn`t annoy me. The owner felt good on it.
tooldrums1000: And also not the fact that some drummers can buy a great kit but can`t afford some good quality cymbals or vice versa. Either there are financial reasons or this drummer likes the sound of it. Again no reasons to be annoyed or somethin...
**Borders: There is a point when you`re just "making" more golden energy than you would need and when you`re losing energy because of having it adjusted in a bad way physically.
Just my thoughts...
Karl
Well...nothing actually annoys me on people`s kits or equipment.
Having adjusted the drums or cymbals in a different way is a personal thing. For me is important that a beginning drummer gets to know how to set-up their stuff "right".
With right I mean setting it up in the most comfortable way for the body.
Then, with the time you learn and "collect" experience...and all those things like technique, style and also the set-up changes and developes. You know, you notice how you (as an individual human) are built....and you may change this and that on the kit to feel comfortable. Although there are borders**...!!! But I don`t like to set them around one small point. When I started to play drums I thought that you have to set it up with an IKEA building plan if you know...but very fastly this opinion disappeared, luckily. For example Roy Haynes has his rack toms far away from each other, for many people a no-no but he feels great on and plays awesome on it...so why not?
And just yesterday I had to play on another kit for a gig, a cool Sonor Lite but wooo...the worst adjustments for me...unfortunatly I couldn`t change anything, no time and this whole set-up was too complicated to change anything!
But it didn`t annoy me. The owner felt good on it.
tooldrums1000: And also not the fact that some drummers can buy a great kit but can`t afford some good quality cymbals or vice versa. Either there are financial reasons or this drummer likes the sound of it. Again no reasons to be annoyed or somethin...
**Borders: There is a point when you`re just "making" more golden energy than you would need and when you`re losing energy because of having it adjusted in a bad way physically.
Just my thoughts...
Karl
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