Cowbell or Tambourine?

[Disgrace]

I want something to use in place of my hi hats and my snare. I was playing today and was enjoying using my hardware to keep time, but mainly instead of my snare. Which would be better for this?

[mamcdonald]

Bovine bell.

[White Riot!]

Tambourine for pulse

Cowbell for timekeeping / backbeat

[drummerdave]

get like a pandiero, lime has one, they're the tambourines with a head, i have both, they're fun to play around with

[mamcdonald]

Use something like a tambourine or a splash to accent things like snare hits and what not or even to take place of the snare. But if you want something to keep time on and basically take the place of a hi hat, you're looking at a cowbell.

[Sync0pation]

I'd say cowbell, but that's just because I love ride bell / cowbell grooves....

[Sunshine]

[biased opinion]

Cowbell.

[/opinion]

[White Riot!]

you will get more sounds out of a cowbell than anything else IMO

[drummerdave]

how bout a groove wedge, thos are pretty cool, actually the ones with the jingles are jingle wedges, they attach to the snare drum, and you use them when cross-sticking

[Tim]

get 100 cowbells in all different shapes and sizes. =)

[LoneStarDrummer]

cowbell

[some jive turkey]

surprised no one's said this:

"more cowbell"

(....so not funny )

[MyShrimpDied]

I would get the tambourine with a head that drummerdave was talking about, those sound pretty cool.

Man I need some new gear.

[Inkstar]

Can never have enough cowbell.

[ChubbySlim]

I have a fever, and the only prescription is...more cowbell!

[Cocaberry]

Jamblocks maybe. Or those tambourines that mount to your hi-hat rod.

[the_pure_drummer]

I cant wait! Im gonna get 3 cowbells 1 tambourine a few jamblocks and vary them around my kit and on the floor with pedals its will be so good!

[the_pure_drummer]

I cant wait im gonna get 3 cowbell 2 on my kit and 1 mounted on the floor then a jam block mounted on the floor with another on my kit and a tambourine aswell! :):):)

[Josiah]

I'm a big fan of the sambago bells.

Agogo bells are sweet.

Cowbells (and variation) are the most useful. I prefer Mambo bells myself, lil more musical to me.

Though mine are really from cuba so haha i love em.

[Disgrace]

Is it possible to mount a tambourine to my snare rim?

[Drummer300btx]

^^ they make small splash cymbal mounts that attach off of the snare drum so im sure you could rig up one for a tambourine.

[the_pure_drummer]

Yeh your bound to find one somewhere! Gibralter make alot of usefull **** so check them out they may have what your looking for!

[psychocream]

i have 5 cowbells. i need more.

[MeaninglessPhoto]

Tambourine most definately. They sound good than some cowbells but I love agogo bells.

[Janbacca]

Cowbell!!

[Sync0pation]

Chad Smith is a renowned and famous drummer.
Thus his opinion would matter, right?
Chad Smith looks identical to Will Ferrell.
Thus Chad Smith = Will Ferrell, right?
And Will Ferrell is all about More Cowbell.

Thus Chad Smith is all about more cowbell.

Thus you are all about more cowbell.

Get the cowbell

[mamcdonald]

Transitive Property of Equality.

[We_Love_Lime]

Transitive Property of Equality.

Agreed.

Uhm.
Have any of you other guys noticed the colour of your snot when you snort Nesquick powder?

[Tim]

I'm a big fan of the sambago bells.


same here ive yet to get me any though. I keep wanting to get them because i love the sound but something else always comes up. im a fan of blast blocks as well. =)

[psychedelic_liam]

I have both, bell and tambourine, and i can say i use the tambourine much more...

[TTTSNB]

Cowbell. They sound much cooler in syncopated patterns. I'd reccomend the new Horacio Hernandez ones, I have one and it sounds GREAT. Tambourines are cool, but only really have limited uses and can sound kinda cheesy if used incorrectly.

[Seafroggys]

you will get more sounds out of a cowbell than anything else IMO

I disagree. A snare is the most versatile percussive instrument (except for maybe timpanis)

[White Riot!]

from the selected options smartarse!

[Seafroggys]

well, the "anything else" part is misleading, because that implies there is more then one other option, and since there's only one other option, I assumed you were branching off from the limitations of this poll and going out into the whole realm of percussion.

[Aaron]

ago-go bells ftw!

[We_Love_Lime]

well, the "anything else" part is misleading, because that implies there is more then one other option, and since there's only one other option, I assumed you were branching off from the limitations of this poll and going out into the whole realm of percussion.

Arn't there more than one types of Tambourines too?

Pandiero.
Mounted Tambourine
Hanheld Tambourine.
Some other related Tambourines.

[Zildjian]

Id go for a tambourine.... I have a cowbell and tbh I rarely use it so its not even on my kit.