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.... is something I never do, but see a lot of metal and rock drummers do.
I didn't think there was 'any point' in doing it when I was starting out learning drums (cymbals are pretty damn loud by themselves right?), so it never became part of my repitoire, and 9 years later I haven't given it much more thought.
From my observation it tends to be really hard hitters (smashers!!!) who mostly do this, and it seems to go hand in hand with huge swinging arm movements, shirtlessness and buckets of hairy sweat. Wheras I'm a very 'still' drummer (or 'energy efficient' if you will), big gestures don't come naturally.
Anyway. What do you think, is double cymbal hittage important in heavy music? do you do it?
P.S. The gig I was at last night that made me think of this was Russian Circles and Eagle Twin (Eagle Twin were the loudest live band I've ever heard and the hardest hitting drummer I've ever seen/heard, I've got a very interestingly broken stick from this dude, I'll take a photo of to show you guys when I get home).
I didn't think there was 'any point' in doing it when I was starting out learning drums (cymbals are pretty damn loud by themselves right?), so it never became part of my repitoire, and 9 years later I haven't given it much more thought.
From my observation it tends to be really hard hitters (smashers!!!) who mostly do this, and it seems to go hand in hand with huge swinging arm movements, shirtlessness and buckets of hairy sweat. Wheras I'm a very 'still' drummer (or 'energy efficient' if you will), big gestures don't come naturally.
Anyway. What do you think, is double cymbal hittage important in heavy music? do you do it?
P.S. The gig I was at last night that made me think of this was Russian Circles and Eagle Twin (Eagle Twin were the loudest live band I've ever heard and the hardest hitting drummer I've ever seen/heard, I've got a very interestingly broken stick from this dude, I'll take a photo of to show you guys when I get home).