Larry
"Uncle Larry"
Playing drums...the act of playing drums...it really shouldn't matter what I am playing on...but it does.
This thread is not about which kit inspires you, that's fine too...it's more about the difference in the way you feel when you are playing your #1 favorite drum set (if you have one) as compared to a backline kit for instance that's not your cup of tea at all. Is this an actual thing with you or do you feel the same no matter what you are playing on?
If I have multiple kits, I love them fairly equally, because I have them set up, headed and tuned to my preferences.
But if I am forced to play a crap backline kit...I just don't play it like I would if it was my own kit. Like if the sound like garbage, I won't play them unless I have to. So the instrument I'm playing affects what I choose to play. It shouldn't, but it does. I hear things a certain way, and timbre is included. If I want a long note, and all I have to work with is a short crappy non-note...I'll just skip playing it if I can.
How I feel about an instrument...I proved to myself that it affects me. I had a "Hendrix color" white Telecaster since 2003. It mostly just sat around. I never liked the color too much but I was trading in a PRS and that's all they had there, in my price range, and I had to have a different guitar that day lol.
Last year I totally redid everything to what I wanted, paint, electronics, hardware...bottom line, I've never loved playing that guitar to the degree I love playing it now...and it's the same body and neck. Go figure. I've done a 180 with that guitar and now I can't get enough. It makes little sense to me except that perhaps I am completely spoiled.
Comments welcome.
This thread is not about which kit inspires you, that's fine too...it's more about the difference in the way you feel when you are playing your #1 favorite drum set (if you have one) as compared to a backline kit for instance that's not your cup of tea at all. Is this an actual thing with you or do you feel the same no matter what you are playing on?
If I have multiple kits, I love them fairly equally, because I have them set up, headed and tuned to my preferences.
But if I am forced to play a crap backline kit...I just don't play it like I would if it was my own kit. Like if the sound like garbage, I won't play them unless I have to. So the instrument I'm playing affects what I choose to play. It shouldn't, but it does. I hear things a certain way, and timbre is included. If I want a long note, and all I have to work with is a short crappy non-note...I'll just skip playing it if I can.
How I feel about an instrument...I proved to myself that it affects me. I had a "Hendrix color" white Telecaster since 2003. It mostly just sat around. I never liked the color too much but I was trading in a PRS and that's all they had there, in my price range, and I had to have a different guitar that day lol.
Last year I totally redid everything to what I wanted, paint, electronics, hardware...bottom line, I've never loved playing that guitar to the degree I love playing it now...and it's the same body and neck. Go figure. I've done a 180 with that guitar and now I can't get enough. It makes little sense to me except that perhaps I am completely spoiled.
Comments welcome.