for the first 30ish years of playing I did...
then I finally settled on Vic Firth 3A's...
my issue was that I spend about 90% of my drumming time with marching sticks in my hands due to my job and really needed to find a pair of set sticks that felt like marching sticks. I also did not want telephone poles on the set due to possible cymbal damage, so I floated through a lot of stick types.
I needed to find something that felt substantial in my hands, and also had nearly round tips for my ride cymbal sound. I floated to VF SD-1 Generals for a while, but did not like the way the taper at the shoulder felt on set. After that, i tried Pro Mark PW808- Shakira Kashi oak sticks, and they felt great, but also, the taper felt "fragile". I still use these for jazz stuff though
I don't know, but I'm suffering from *sticking* experimentation disease. Specifically, I want to develop a phone app to generate stickings for drumset.
Calling all programmers (preference for Python)..
I had a fever and the only prescription are Vater Sugar Maple 5B's
Okay will do. Maybe start a separate thread on it. The idea came while I was revisiting a song during practice yesterday - "Reminiscing" by Little River Band - and I was struggling coming up with groove ideas. The main idea is to provide the application the consistent parts of the groove (eg kick, snare) over a number of bars, and have it generate sticking permutations for selected surfaces, based on some rules for conventional drumset layout. The latter part of that sentence is the tough part - generating the rules we all play by but don't consciously think about every day, eg it's virtually impossible to play the ride with both hands (or difficult enough that you could specify it as a rule) but not for the hihat. Another rule would be that if you want the same hand to play the snare backbeat, then the other hand must be on the hihat for beats 2 and 4 for a eighth note groove, etc.If you want, message me with more info about your project. Interesting.
# ---- Groove for "Reminiscing" by Little River Band ----
groove = {'sig': [4,4],
'bars': 4, # the number of bars for the longest pattern; use this number
# to 'fill' bars for shorter patterns (eg snare pattern)
'bar_grid': [1,0,0,1,0,0, 1,0,0,1,0,0], # '1' for quarter note (or beat note in time signature)
'snare_pattern': {'0': [[0,0,0,0,0,0, 1,0,0,0,0,0],],
},
'kick_pattern': {'0': [[1,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,1],
[0,0,1,1,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0],
[1,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,1],
[0,0,1,1,0,0, 0,0,1,0,0,0],],
},
'hihat_pattern': {'0': [[1,0,0,1,0,0, 1,0,0,1,0,0]], # easy straight quarter notes
'1': [[1,0,0,1,0,0, 1,0,0,1,0,1], # two-bar variation
[0,0,0,1,0,0, 1,0,0,1,0,0],],
'2': [[1,0,0,1,0,0, 1,0,0,1,0,1], # four-bar variation
[0,0,0,1,0,0, 1,0,0,1,0,0],
[1,0,0,1,0,0, 1,0,0,1,0,1],
[0,0,0,1,0,0, 1,0,1,0,0,0],],
},
'open_hihat_pattern': {'0': [[0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0], # '1' for open hihat foot
[0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0],
[0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,1],
[0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,1,0,0,0],],
},
'crash_pattern': {'0': [[1,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0],
[0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0],
[0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0],
[0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,1,0,0,0],],
},
}
# ---- Patterns ----
# Rudiments ('1' is right hand, '2' is left hand, '0' is note rest)
double_paradiddle = [1,2,1,2,1,1]
paradiddle = [1,2,1,1]
open_stroke = [1,2]
double_stroke_roll = [1,1,2,2]
# One-handed patterns
jazz_ride = [1,0,0,1,0,1]
jazz_ride2 = [1,0,1,1,0,0]
shuffle = [1,0,1,1,0,1]
time_signatures = [[6,8],[9,8],[12,8], # triplet-based
[2,4],[4,4],[6,4], # even
[3,4],[5,4],[7,4],[9,4],[11,4],[13,4]] # odd