jondrumming
Senior Member
...About the two bass drums/double pedal argument. The biggest two arguments seem to be:
a) The slave pedal in an average double pedal creates an unbalanced feel, thus hindering your overall performance.
b) The speed of the air moving around inside the single bass drum can choke the head, which can lead to uneven sound.
Well, I was thinking about those two points, and here are my two arguments, based on the principle: Bass drums, although bigger, are still drums.
a) Unless you're ambidextrous, your hands (on the snare drum) are not going to have the exact same performance. If you're a righty, your left hand will be weaker, and vice versa.
b) This would mean that someone playing 32nd notes on a snare drum would be choking it too? I don't think the "choking the sound" argument is true, because if it was, we would need a snare drum and tom tom for each hand, so instead of:
14" Snare
10"Tom
12" Tom
16" Floor Tom
22" Bass
we would need:
14" Snare
14" Snare
10" Tom
10" Tom
12" Tom
12" Tom
16" Floor Tom
16" Floor Tom
22" Bass
22" Bass
One for each hand, to create "the perfect sound".
I may be wrong entirely, but what do you think?
a) The slave pedal in an average double pedal creates an unbalanced feel, thus hindering your overall performance.
b) The speed of the air moving around inside the single bass drum can choke the head, which can lead to uneven sound.
Well, I was thinking about those two points, and here are my two arguments, based on the principle: Bass drums, although bigger, are still drums.
a) Unless you're ambidextrous, your hands (on the snare drum) are not going to have the exact same performance. If you're a righty, your left hand will be weaker, and vice versa.
b) This would mean that someone playing 32nd notes on a snare drum would be choking it too? I don't think the "choking the sound" argument is true, because if it was, we would need a snare drum and tom tom for each hand, so instead of:
14" Snare
10"Tom
12" Tom
16" Floor Tom
22" Bass
we would need:
14" Snare
14" Snare
10" Tom
10" Tom
12" Tom
12" Tom
16" Floor Tom
16" Floor Tom
22" Bass
22" Bass
One for each hand, to create "the perfect sound".
I may be wrong entirely, but what do you think?