Bo Eder
Platinum Member
Get rid of the second pedal, if only for a while. If it's not there, you won't be tempted to mess with it and can focus on other sounds and textures.
Like playing in time
Get rid of the second pedal, if only for a while. If it's not there, you won't be tempted to mess with it and can focus on other sounds and textures.
Like playing in time
I'm too old for frantic music. The focus on speed in double bass rolls doesn't move me musically. There are very few folks I've heard who can do fast double bass rolls with any sort of pulse or groove. It takes away from the flow of the music IMHO and becomes the focus of the music. I went though the backlash against souless shredders on guitar bit and thought the baby got thrown out with the bathwater. Hopefully some of the more talented folks will slow down just a bit to where they can swing those double bass rolls and create music that flows and still requires technical facility. Otherwise I fear the same kind of "anti-chop" backlash in drumming.
I'd be interested to see how many posts you get here on guys who have double pedals (or double bass drums) and over time just stopped using them. Then it would confirm my sneaking suspicion that double pedals are the most musically unnecessary pieces of gear that the industry has shoved down everybody's throats
I have two kicks(tuned differently)
I have a double pedal on the right kick and a single pedal on the left kick.
I have options, been playing double bass since the late 70's AFTER I felt real
good and solid about my right foot and its friend, the Ludwig Speed King.(that was the first 12 years as a youth)
I don't have to use double bass, but if I want to, and also want to use 2 differing sounds,
the tools are right there.
Same for the 2nd snare
Same for the Timbales
Same for the 2 Hi hats
Same for the 9 crashes, 2 splashes, 2 Rides, and 2 China's
These are MY tools and I use them accordingly. This would be my setup whether
I was playing MSG, a small Club, a party Jam, or in my drum cave.
I am NOT from the school of whining about lugging gear around. My Kit is set up
to the way I play. I like Options if they make the music better.
I wouldn't say it's an "unnecessary pieces of gear", for some styles it's almost compulsory to have double bass or double pedals.
Count me in as an ex-double bass drum and double pedal player, used them for well over 25 years, since the end of 2010, I gave it all up, I'm now a happy single pedal player.
If I knew a drummer would be insistent on bringing that much stuff, no matter where the gig was, he'd be near the bottom of my list.