Ashes01
Junior Member
Alright, I am going to start off with a quick introduction. I'm 14 (please leave your snarky comments at the door), Have been drumming for several months. I currently practice about 2 hours a day on weekdays and 5+ on weekends. I have a Gretsch Catalina Maple kit that I got...yesterday, and some beat up old ZBT cymbals. My influences are varied, but if I had to pick two... Pink Floyd and System of a Down. I play music with my father pretty often. We're learning "Hypnotize" by SOAD and "When I Come Around" by Green Day. I'm a huge fan of the Arctic Monkeys. I like punchy, heavy sounds out of my drums and cymbals with a quick attack and fast decay. My skill level is at the point where I can read tabs fairly well, but am lost by time signatures other than 4/4 and not sure what things like "Flam" mean.
I can do some fairly standard fills, like descending tom beats and sixteenth-note rolls on the snare, but I'm having trouble integrating open hi-hat into the whole thing. I like playing beats heavy on the crash, but can't really coax anything other than an explosive sound out of it. My stick control is pretty good, but anything I see that looks fairly hard has the drummer rocking his stick back and forth and... I'm not really sure what its called, but I'd like to learn more about it.
So if anyone could provide some basic advice, maybe suggest some tabs or songs to learn, anything like that, I would be quite happy. Here's my setup, as close as I can remember without actually going to look at it:
14" snare, 10" & 12" rack toms, 14" and 16" floor toms, 20" bass.
14" ZBT hats, 16" ZBT crash, 20" ZBT ride.
small and large cowbell, wood block.
I use Vater 7A wood tip sticks, If it helps.
I can do some fairly standard fills, like descending tom beats and sixteenth-note rolls on the snare, but I'm having trouble integrating open hi-hat into the whole thing. I like playing beats heavy on the crash, but can't really coax anything other than an explosive sound out of it. My stick control is pretty good, but anything I see that looks fairly hard has the drummer rocking his stick back and forth and... I'm not really sure what its called, but I'd like to learn more about it.
So if anyone could provide some basic advice, maybe suggest some tabs or songs to learn, anything like that, I would be quite happy. Here's my setup, as close as I can remember without actually going to look at it:
14" snare, 10" & 12" rack toms, 14" and 16" floor toms, 20" bass.
14" ZBT hats, 16" ZBT crash, 20" ZBT ride.
small and large cowbell, wood block.
I use Vater 7A wood tip sticks, If it helps.