r/MetalDrums

I know it’s all personal preference but I was wondering since I like playing rock/metal would it be best to have 2 or 3 crashes? I personally like to have a more simple kit so 2 crashes but I’m worried of “missing out” or lacking if that makes sense, can 2 crashes still do the job completely fine? Or is 3 more of the well rounded sweet spot?

Hey peeps

I feel like there are 2 approaches to the ankle technique. One is where you let your legs rest on the pedal and you mostly use your calves to let the pedal bounce (as taught by Marthyn of drumtechnique academy).

The second approach is lifting the legs permanently and fully moving your feet along with the pedal - thus using calves to push and shin to pull the feet.

The former technique puts more weight of the leg and more pressure on the pedal. The latter puts the pressure on the throne since you have to support your weight without your legs resting on the pedal.

So ... How do you do it? What is your approach? Do you think one is superior to the other? Are you somewhere in-between? Do you use a different ankle approach?

Let me know.

I for one am pretty unsure what I want to do. I like the first approach for being easy and the latter for the control. I feel the weight of my legs makes it difficult for me to really relax into the motion, so I tend to play with the second approach.

Hey! So It’s impossible for me to buy a drumset right now and I am developping a Modern Black Metal project where I need drums. Influences are Schammasch, older Gaerea, Batushka or Hauntologist.

I’ve been using Ugritone Inferno’s Vst drums for two years and I wanted to upgrade. I’ve been searching and I think Eloy Drums or Mixwave’s Mario Duplantier could be a good buy. What do you think? Could they fit modern black metal? Wich one better?

Thanks in advance!

Love this track. One of the first ‪Dream Theater‬ instrumentals I learned as a budding drummer. Been a LONG time since I tried playing along… feel like I held up pretty well!! A couple trips here and there, but nothing devastating.

However, toward the end my right stick broke in half!! The rest of the take went smoothly enough I didn’t wanna hafta redo it, so I just kept with it to the end. Luckily the remainder of the stick held its integrity long enough for me to finish the tune!! Ha!!!

Here’s my take on this excellent arrangement from their 1994 album “Awake”. Enjoy!!

Would really appreciate your thoughts, thank you in advance

Hey all! I'm a newbie drummer (just past a year!) whose a long time metal fan. I've got a few related questions for all the drummers better than me out there:

1. How can I build my timekeeping effective both on and off the kit? I'm from an orchestra background so I'm used to "following" a timing source, but the subdivisions between get kind of dicey and I have a tendency to drag for a couple bars here and there before pulling back onto the click.

2. Related to this, how can I keep my limbs on the correct subdivisions when doing traditional blasts? Up to about 120bpm I can separate my kick and snare by ear since it sounds like a skank beat, but faster than that the subdivisions start blurring. When I practice single strokes I find that my ears automatically help me readjust limb phases but when each hand is on a different part of the kit I just can't seem to place everything right. With hammer blasts or hellhammer blasts (that's what I've heard them called, it's half time on the cymbal hand and unison on kick and snare), I don't really have issues with going up to even 180bpm, aside from the aforementioned tempo drift.

3. How can I build up the limb speed while still keeping reliable time? My snare hand has gotten pretty comfortable on push-pull/open close (it came more naturally than flying fingers), but my lead hand is pretty stubborn with moeller, which tops out faster and has less stamina. However, I find that when I was training push pull on my lead hand, my timing reliability got significantly worse.

Huge thanks in advance! Looking forward to a long drumming journey.

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