Cymbalrider
Pioneer Member
Here at my college, we have a 'popular music' band that focuses mainly on modern stuff. I decided to expand my horizons from jazz and oldies and join the group. SO anyway, they use some worn out Roland TD-12 set, which I played on tonight. I elected to use my SD4s which I have had for a few months now and they only showed little signs of wear. I never play hard, and certainly not on an electric set (what's the point to?)......BUT in the middle of a song, one of the sticks snaps in half, horizontally (almost anyway with the way of the grain). Now, I've never seen a stick break this way before, and I've only broken 2-3 pairs of sticks in my life (the others were marching snare sticks during rimshot heavy shows back in high school marching band). This immediately causes a weird feeling because, 1-I don't break sticks and 2-it broke on a mesh pad??? Perhaps the stick was weakening anyway and the shock from the weird rebound of 'artificial drums' just made it give way. It's only maple too, so that might have something to do with it. Now, I loved these sticks, but I'm still in a good deal of shock and probably will be the rest of the week. Anyone know what would cause a maple stick to break in the middle on an electric set even without playing hard at all (I was playing a good mezzo forte, although the kit sounded like I was 'rockin out'--gotta love terrible triggering!)?????