Im looking for a cowbell so i can play i break everything i touch by Jason Aldean, and possibly use it for a few other country songs that use it. What do you recommend for cowbell and mount?
Also is there a way to play the cowbell, high hat, and snare at the same time? Im new to drumming, so i wasn't sure if that is possible.
When you go to the Guitar Center, check out the cowbell mounts they have. Usually they have two kinds, one to mount on the hoop of your bass drum, and one that's like a multi-clamp you can use on a cymbal stand. The poster who posted the foot-mounted cowbell mount picture, yes, there's those too, but it sounds like you don't need that.
I use an LP Mambo cowbell for pretty everything because it's low-pitched enough, but when you play it towards the mount end, the pitch goes up a little. I think all cowbells do that. That one is about 7" long, cost me about $27 fifteen years ago. A good rule of thumb is to get a fairly heavy duty cowbell mount because the bells are a bit heavier than they look, adn if you mount it on your bass drum hoop, that's alot of weight and over time you can start to bend the hoop, but not always.
As far as playing, I rarely play both hi-hat and cowbell at the same time, so it's either going to be one or the other. If you ever listened to the Rolling Stones'
Honky Tonk Woman (who hasn't?) you'll hear hi-hat in the background, which means someone else was playing the cowbell, or it was an overdub. But if the cowbell part is the important part, then you play that, and it becomes your hi-hat part. Good luck!