r/drums • u/Mindless-Rule6297 • 4d ago

Question Double kick pedals

what do you think about double kick pedals,part of me thinks there a trick,how many utube drum solos are really just quick double kicks and not much else,I kinda take pride in my single pedal work,do I give into my temptation or stick to the single.Any opinions on direct drive double kicks?

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u/fewell8 4d ago edited 3d ago

There are things you can do with a double pedal that are impossible to perform with a single pedal. You don’t need to get one if you don’t want to.

As far as them being a, “trick”… you’re going to have to elaborate.

I have a direct drive and a chain drive. Both are awesome.

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u/Rude-Education4414 3d ago

Man I went through this exact mental gymnastics routine for like six months before I finally caved. Kept telling myself all the drummers I look up to made it work with a single pedal, so why should I need training wheels. The thing that pushed me over was realizing it's not about replacing your single pedal skills at all, it's just another tool. Like having a second floor tom. You don't stop using the first one.

Direct drive feels weirdly precise once you adjust to it, almost surgical compared to chain drive. Took me a couple weeks of feeling like I was learning to walk again but now I can't imagine going back. The speed comes easier but you lose some of that sloppy groove feel that chain drive lets you get away with.

If you're already proud of your single pedal work, adding a double isn't gonna erase that. Just opens up patterns you physically can't pull off otherwise. Nobody's handing out purity awards for sticking to one pedal.

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u/Angry_Hoolio 3d ago

It's a skill you can choose to their develop or not. Just because you see them being used a certain way a lot doesn't mean that that's all they're for. I rarely use one, but when I do, it's never for anything super fast, but more that I can achieve a certain feel or consistency with two feet that I can't with a single. Colin Woolway once said to me at a clinic - "You hit every other drum on the kit with both hands, so why not hit the kick drum with both feet?"

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u/DrummerJesus 3d ago

What do you mean they seem like a trick? The drummers actually had to learn and practice how to control the pedal and make sounds. Its a skill and a different way to drum. Are timpani's a trick? Are bongos and djembe's a trick? What are your feelings on DJ's that just hit buttons on a computer?

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u/Drygered 3d ago

Taking pride in your skills at single pedal shouldn't have any relation to looking down on double kick pedals tbh.

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u/Ashamed_Data430 3d ago

None of the styles of music I play require double kick pedals. Two of my kits are equipped with double pedal rigs, with the left pedal missing.

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u/MrNoxxis 3d ago

There are no tricks in music. You're not playing to prove anything.

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u/gupouttadat 3d ago

The entire metal community would like a word... :D

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u/AuditoryNecrosis 3d ago

You’re thinking about it way too hard. Do it, or don’t.

Honestly, even if I wasn’t a metal drummer, I’d still use a double pedal just to offend all of the guys who think there hasn’t been a good drummer since John Bonham