Jankowske
Senior Member
I play metal. Sometimes my band complains about having to turn up because I'm too loud. But I don't think that I'm a heavy hitter. I use 5As and after a certain point I don't think that hitting a drum harder will make it much louder. Also I'm cheap so I play a stick until it breaks...which usually takes me a couple months of a half hour to an hour a day. By the end this sucker's frayed, splintered, and usually half the tip has flaked off leaving me with a much pointier bashing device.
My "problem" is that I don't dent heads. Now I've seen some dented heads. I've witnessed heads get dented. I saw a kid sit behind the school's jazz kit with some buddy rich sticks and he managed to leave a dent after every single hit for some of his fills. I've seen old heads that look like the moon's surface . One time I read a recording article about arguing with drummers about reskinning a kit before going into the studio...something along the lines of "even though they've only been on for three gigs they're probably already dished out and full of dents." And I have definitely left a few dents of my own...usually accidentally.
But for the most part it doesn't happen. I had some pinstripes on my toms for a year and a half, and when I took the scuffed, stick-marked grubby things off none of them were dished at all and there were maybe three small dents between the four of them. I just read an off-handed comment in some post about seeing a dented hydraulic and I was BOGGLED enough to write all this.
How often do you accidentally leave a dent? What do your guys' heads look like when you take them off? How much difference have you noticed in "dentability" between heads of different thicknesses/ply counts? How much do you think your technique has to do with it? What about stick size or balance?
Why do people hit their drums so hard? Why...
My "problem" is that I don't dent heads. Now I've seen some dented heads. I've witnessed heads get dented. I saw a kid sit behind the school's jazz kit with some buddy rich sticks and he managed to leave a dent after every single hit for some of his fills. I've seen old heads that look like the moon's surface . One time I read a recording article about arguing with drummers about reskinning a kit before going into the studio...something along the lines of "even though they've only been on for three gigs they're probably already dished out and full of dents." And I have definitely left a few dents of my own...usually accidentally.
But for the most part it doesn't happen. I had some pinstripes on my toms for a year and a half, and when I took the scuffed, stick-marked grubby things off none of them were dished at all and there were maybe three small dents between the four of them. I just read an off-handed comment in some post about seeing a dented hydraulic and I was BOGGLED enough to write all this.
How often do you accidentally leave a dent? What do your guys' heads look like when you take them off? How much difference have you noticed in "dentability" between heads of different thicknesses/ply counts? How much do you think your technique has to do with it? What about stick size or balance?
Why do people hit their drums so hard? Why...