One thing that stumped you..

[Houdini]

Since there's going to be loads of people with new kits, lets enjoy a moment of reflection.

What's one thing that you could absolutely not figure out, or it took you a few months to realize you were doing something the wrong way?


I couldn't figure out how to put my hi hat stand together. :upset:

[Panopticon]

yeah you know what i can't really think of anything.

[alvyn]

I didn't realise I was playing my bass drum backwards =/ I was under the impression that the tom clamp should be nearer to me.

I didn't know how the hihat clutch worked and how to get my hihat stand together.

I didn't know how to tune my snare to get a proper sound. My snare sounded like someone stuffed it with wet tissue paper and amplified the sound thru a really nasty and old loudhailer.

Lol lots of things stumped me when I first started haha.

[Janeway]

How to make that one thing do the other while not tipping it leftways.

[rohbit]

I played Smells Like Teen Spirit wrong for a year before figuring out that I was doing so.

[TravisBarkerrules]

How to make my foot hit the bass drum when I wanted it to... Everyone has there things that they have trouble with but for me I just looked up kits on the internet to get mine set up correctly, not MX but google images!

[Aaron]

What the term crash-ride meant.
I thought it was an action; "now crash-ride it!!"

This was 8 years ago.

[mustang sally]

I played my snare super low. I couldn't even hit a rim shot. I fixed it. It took a long time to get used to.

Also, after I had been playing for about a year, I played about 3-4 months with nothing but brushes. Then when I switched back to sticks it was the weirdest feeling ever. It gives me nightmares.

[fishbulb]

On my CB kit the mounting for the two rack toms was horrible. I basically had the longer arms on to hold the toms but those should have been in the bass drum. I can't imagine how it would have looked like that.

[Mirror.Circuit]

rocket toms.
super low snare,tuned really low,no tone.
evans hydros,thought they were greattttttttt.

[White]

assembling the hi hat clutch lol.

[Killroy]

playing quarter notes grooves... my first lesson was in eighth notes and i ran with it, it took me a couple months before i ever started trying to play quarter notes in 4/4 time because i was so used to the eighth notes..

[maniac0796]

I couldn't open the legs on my Hi hat stand fully

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

Tuning lol

[ace76543]

yeah, tuning. it still gets me

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

same lol

[moogoogaipan]

I used to think that the ride cymbal was almost useless :thumb:

[mullets suk]

I didn't realise I was playing my bass drum backwards =/ I was under the impression that the tom clamp should be nearer to me.

i turned my bass drum so it would be like that. it makes the toms more accessable, and i dont think it would create a tone diffrence, i could be wrong though.

also it took me two years before i changed the stock batter heads...i still havent changed the resos =/

[Mr Pink]

Led Zeppelin's Black Dog...I can, and have written out the chart perfectly (had a friend play it so to know it was right) and I STILL F it up when I play it. It has become such a mental block that the first thing I save to people when I jam with the for the first time is NO BLACK DOG......funny.

[moogoogaipan]

i still havent changed the resos =/

That doesn't matter. My teacher still has the original resonant heads on from his 1960's Gretsch kit.

[Vannaroth]

It's more of a seup-up preference thing, but I didn't notice 'til recently that most people seem to have their snares set up so the strainer is on the left.

Freaks.

[Panopticon]

i do because im left handed.

[Berk]

how come 9"x12" is standard and 8"x12" isnt?

[moogoogaipan]

I wasn't aware that 9"x12" was standard

[Berk]

it comes on basically every non custom/beginner/intermediate kit from what ive seen

[Drummer Matt]

Well, tuning got me real good. And then I was wondering why I went through two 16'' crashes in less than 8 months, until I realized I had been hitting them with all my power in straight on hits. Its all glancing blows now.

[Drum Phil]

It's more of a seup-up preference thing, but I didn't notice 'til recently that most people seem to have their snares set up so the strainer is on the left.

Freaks.

My throw offs on the right :) So i can hit it with my knee or open it with a stick.

[Mr Pink]

it comes on basically every non custom/beginner/intermediate kit from what ive seen

What is a non custom kit?
You funny.:smoke:

[Drum Phil]

it comes on basically every non custom/beginner/intermediate kit from what ive seen

Bull :-/ Mines 12x10 and my kits intermediate.

[Panopticon]

wow thats wierd...all the m birches in the US have 12x9 and all the ones in the UK have 12x10.

I wonder why?

EDIT: Wow, they don't even offer a 12x9 in the UK to order seperately?

[Panopticon]

I think the thing that stumped phil the most was not having vertical toms.

[Drum Phil]

12x10 > 12x9 :) For my purpouses anywho

[-TGP-]

yeah you know what i can't really think of anything.

So you sat down behind a drum kit for the first time ever, and played a siqq back beat, hmm?





Do you guys smell that?
Yeah, buuulllllllshit. :)

[PandaDrummer]

took me forever to learn to play open handed so i didn't have to cross over for the ride cymbal.

[Panopticon]

So you sat down behind a drum kit for the first time ever, and played a siqq back beat, hmm?





Do you guys smell that?
Yeah, buuulllllllshit. :)

uhh yeah...who do you think i am? some nub?

I mean...i was able to play basic beats when i started, a little sloppy, but it didnt stump me.

[ringworm]

i always got stumped as to why i should practice instead of playing

20-something years later, i see :p

[-TGP-]

uhh yeah...who do you think i am? some nub?

I mean...i was able to play basic beats when i started, a little sloppy, but it didnt stump me.


That's not what I meant at all, haha.

[Panopticon]

well i guess one thing i still get stumped by is motivation to practice rudiments and stuff. I still can't bring myself to do it for more than 5 minutes at a time.

[Drum Phil]

Yeah i could never really get to grips with rudiments.

Im trying like hell to force myself into it.

[statdat]

i have fun doing rudiments i always think of how much more awesome **** ill be able to do afterwards haha.

my problem when i started was tuning everything as high as possible. dunno why, guess my ear didnt telll my it sounded as bad as it did.

also i didnt use a metronome for about a year.

good times

[Retarded Chipple]

When I got my Sonor kit, I had my tom mounts upside-down for a while. It wasn't wrong, just a different way of doing something.


There's hundreds of little things like stick grip, tuning, subdivisions etc that I kinda did weird....

[sLarkin20]

I used to not think the snares on the snare drum were useful so I just had my snare tuned really really low so it would get a crack sound without even having snares on it...

[Det_Nosnip]

I thought that I was supposed to play the drums, but then I realized that the drums were supposed to play me.

[Chippy569]

the spurs on my stagestar, i never figured out how to work 'em.



damn i miss that kit.

[Little Android Man]

For a while i wasn't aware that a rim shot was different from a rim click.

[rohbit]

I still have trouble muting my cymbals after a hit with my left hand because my thumb bends back so far that I can't put enough pressure in time.

[ace76543]

For a while i wasn't aware that a rim shot was different from a rim click.

yes...this..






.....*goes on wikipedia*

[jversluis88]

My bass drum was backwards, and I had absolutely no concept of tuning, I just cranked all the heads as tight as they would go.

[mustang sally]

no tuning at all for me

[rohbit]

Oh, 8th notes between quarter notes when you play the snare every quarter note. I can do them, but I'm prone to sloppiness at higher speeds.