HP40

I play traditional grip and I've recently noticed a problem with my left hand technique:

I've noticed that once I start playing bounce strokes, the angle of decent of the stick gets increasingly unstable. How can I control this more? My thumb is decently tight on the stick.

When I do really slow bounce strokes with a focus on keeping my fulcrum, I notice my hand opens a very little bit, as if I'm throwing something down. Is this a problem?

Does anyone have any experience with this? Are there any exercises or tips I could use? The next two weeks I will be very focused on technique because I'll have a lot of free time and no access to a kit.

A group that I'm playing in is starting to branch into free jazz.

I've found myself doing one of three things

• playing long rolls around the kit

• playing short, staccato notes

• mimicking the pitches of the horns on my toms

What are done other ideas for free playing to develop? What experiences have you had with this?

Many of my drummer friends are raving about them. I played very briefly on them but not enough to get much of an impression.

I've been thinking about getting the 14 hi-hats. Obviously I'd try to play on a pair before deciding, but do you guys have any experience or input on them?

Also if there are any other similar hats for the same price bracket

I'm trying to prove a point to a friend and I wrongly said that Erskine started in his thirties only to learn he started learning drums at four.

Mostly jazz but also other notable examples too

Explain

^

Also is that number typical for you? How long does it take you to go through a "batch" of songs or do you do it differently?

Has anyone had any experience with this? I have a 16.5x17 floor tom that I think would be cool as a bass drum. Also any other cool conversions or tips for making a mini kit would be appreciated.

Is it alright for the cymbal if I wipe a cymbal (specifically a zildjian K) with a slightly damp cloth? Would the water rust the metal even if I dry it off right away?

We broke 200 subs!

I remember when we had barely over 100 subs and only one or two active members.

Gratz

I'm new to android. I got my first android, a LG Escape 2, about a week or two ago and it was working great, I was loving my first taste of android. But then it told me that I didn't have much space left. As I only had 8GB of internal storage, I thought it could be remedied with an SD card.

I went out and bought an SD card, then I moved as many apps and files as I could to the 32GB I now had. Okay, all done; I had more than enough space to download apps instead of being limited, right?

Well now "System Data" is taking up more than 5GB of space on my phone and I've moved all that I can to the SD card. I don't have enough space to download literally anything and I'm not really willing to do

I guess I'll start:

Stick bag - Meinl something or rather

Main sticks - AJ6 - I really like these sticks. They have a great sound on cymbals and a decently sized shaft/handle.

Brushes - Steve Gadd signature bent tip brushes - The sounds you can make with these are incredible

Mallets - 4x Victor Mendoza M23

Extra sticks - Peter Erskine ride sticks and AJ5 - These are both very reliable sticks for different styles of jazzing

Front pocket:

Metronome

Sizzler beads

Pencil

Felts and an extra clutch

I have a drum key in the front pocket and another hidden on the inside somewhere in case I can't find the other one

As the few of you who check here might have noticed, I kinda killed what little activity there was in this little subreddit with my rule of one review per post.

So maybe we should remove it.