It seems that drummers spend a lot of time figuring out how to arrange and enhance their kits. There are so many items you can buy and the sky is the limit on cost. You can pay £30 for a cymbal or £600, if you want. There will be differences of course, but the usual law of diminishing returns may apply. My own acoustic kit looks something like below.
You can see my actual kit in my previous post. This image was created in Drumstructor which is a web-based app with the sole purpose of designing drum kits. Someone had already done this version of the Tama Club Jam with a different snare drum. BTW the Tama web page looks like it was designed for phones, so looks terrible on a big screen.
I think I heard of the app from this guy.
Of course people do to town with an app like this. Lots of kits used by famous players have been build such as this one used by Terry Bozio. If you click through you can pan around the kit in 3d and click on each item to see what it is. The editor is very comprehensive, but I have not had time to play with it. I ought to be actually playing my drums instead.
A kit like that would cost as much as a very nice car and you need a truck plus some roadies to get it around. I will stick with something much simpler.
I am currently working on a tune for the next Drumeo collaboration. It is not the most complex bit of drumming, but I may do a variation as I cannot quite handle the speedy footwork it requires. I aim to do a video playing the acoustic kit, so that may be up next week. I need to get it done by then to be included anyway.
I also want to do another song for the Vibes contest. I have one I wrote that is suitable, but it takes time to get a video together.
I am off to get a bit of practice in before bed. Having to work a full-time job gets in the way of my music.
Rock on!
