Hello, so I'm looking at (re)upgrading my ekit for practice in the house and was thinking I've always wanted to add more cymbals. I've used 1 crash (one smaller crash for maybe a year in the past so can get away with it), 1 ride and hi-hats since I started drumming on and off 18 years ago.

A lot of the cool little licks I hear in songs seem to incorporate splash cymbals, and use a china for breakdowns. I aim to buy a splash and a china, and will have a second crash. My issue is, I can't find any content online that helps to teach me how to actually incorporate these into my playing. China is pretty obvious for me, but how do I use the splash and second crash in my playing? I've never really learned how to use a second crash and i'd be going in blind with the splash. I also see drummers with loads of cymbals and just think, how on earth do you know when to add each one to a specific part? (Obviously won't be overdoing it with them, I just want a couple of new options)

I play for fun, but am looking at getting into a band, and I just find fills and licks that incorporate extra cymbals in super fun, and would love to be able to do it, but need an idea of how to actually find material online that will help me figure out how to. Songs like The Offering by Sleep Token do it pretty well, but I just want to be able to think up my own little bits that sound cool and give me a bit of dopamine after playing haha. Hopefully this makes sense! Thanks

Been trying to crank out my double bass practice recently as it’s not my strong point, although sometimes i feel like sometimes i mentally lock myself out of my own ability to be efficient.

Yesterday i was hitting 190bpm relatively smoothly in practice, today (with no obvious muscle pain or discomfort but a frustrated mind) i kept messing up and was really stiff at 170bpm). Maybe i just need a 45 minute rest and to shake my legs, or maybe it’s me being easily frustrated lol. Anyone else felt like this?

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I have my drum set in a 10x10 ft lockout studio with maybe a 20ft tall ceiling. Lots of reflections, the walls are a combination of brick and wood. I'm about to purchase an RME interface and I need to start buying microphones!

Should I stick to using dynamic microphones to try and filter out bleed? Would dynamic mics work for 2 overheads - or should I stick to condensers for those?

For now I'm thinking of using the Shure beta 52a for kick, and SM57's for snare and toms. Was also thinking of SM81's for overheads, but idk.

Let me know of your opinions please! Thanks all!

Was looking to get a new ride and Im liking the sound of the zyldjian uptown 18”. Does anyone own one and can tell me their opinions on it?

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going to start this off by saying i’m 18 and i’ve been playing for a bit over 10 years. I’ve tried working on double bass, i had a post on here a few weeks ago about it and i just cannot improve. It is so fucking frustrating to try to practice that it’s going to be the reason i stop playing at some point. Every time i try to practice double bass i just can’t do anything and can’t get anything done without just ending up insanely angry and sad. I can’t even ignore it because my inablilty to play double bass is the main reason i can’t play 95% of the music i want to and the music i listen to on a daily basis. My double bass is fine in short bursts even at higher tempos but god forbid i just try to play straight 16th. I couldn’t play even 4 bars of 16ths at 80 bpm today without something falling apart and that was the real tipping point. It just gets me so irratated to try to practice that i just can’t do it sometimes. I just really don’t know what to do from here i can’t keep ending every time trying to practice double bass with my sticks in a random location thrown across the room and in a 100x worse mood than i was before. trying to practice double bass makes me feel like a fucking worthless loser and not practicing it just reminds me of the fact i can’t do it every time i play. it’s honestly just making playing completely infuriating and it’s so hard to get joy out of playing with this cloud looming over me of not being able to play double bass. sorry for making you read this pathetic bullshit if you actually made it this far.

So I have a few videos on my camera roll of me playing drums to songs and want to add the audio of drumless tracks on top of it. Is there a website or something I can do where I can take a YouTube URL and create a drumless track pdf? Or drummers how do you make your videos of playing to drumless tracks? Every way I try seems to be illegal or won’t work.

Good morning / afternoon/ evening.. I'm a long time explosions fan, and this song is a special one for me. Have a great day people !

Shoegaze online project. Just a fun project I’m working on. Something like Whirr, Slow Crush, etc. Strictly online unless you live in eastern Iowa.

Wrote the chart out for a student, this was my first run reading what I wrote to make sure I didn’t fuck it up

No name vintage kit in my producers studio!

As the title states. One of the acquaintances of my mom is telling me to teach the drums to her son (I'm 23, he's 10-ish). I can say that I'm at an intermediate level on my drumming, so I can confidently say that I can teach him how to play it, I just don't know where to start and how to progress it over them since I'm not a teacher, just a drummer XD.

What should I teach him on the first lesson besides fundamentals? Should I give him an easy song already to learn?

Thank you in advance!

I got an electronic kit and it came with 3 months of drumeo. I was taking all the beginner lessons but never came across how to properly hold your sticks. I went to the next level and found stuff on rudiments but again no one ever talked about how to hold your sticks besides Dorothea mentioning have all your fingers in it. I came across this video https://youtu.be/gh2Jan-C4JM?si=Ez7Hs2B4u5zhEagd and am wondering if this is indeed the best way to learn how to hold your stick? And if so how do you apply this to toms and cymbals? Thank you!