On drums...

L. to R.;
1. FX(chinese) 18", 1,370g
2. Main ride 20" w/2 rivets,1,961 g
3. Crash 18", 1,280g;
4. Crash ride 20", 1,688g.
5. 13" HH, 607 & 624g

Alternate set up: 20" main ride w/o rivets; 18" crash ride w/2 rivets; 14" HH 1315 & 1692g

Like the piano keyboard, lowest to highest pitch moves left to right. I play piano also, so it helps my orientation that I play drums lefty.

At the moment, any more than 4 cymbals + HH tends to clutter things up for me.
Since I generally play small group...3 to 7 pcs... acoustic music, light cymbals are my preference.

Since I got the SQ2 kit I'd been playing 8, 10, 12 up and 14 down along with the 16 when I had room. Lately I've begun to feel in a rut and I know I've been depending on having a lot of drums to hit to do fills.

So, about a month ago I dropped all the toms but the 12 and 14 and went back to a 4-piece kit, ride, 2 crashes, hats and a splash. I've had a blast playing the past month. I really like that playing the 4-piece makes me think a lot more about each fill and how to make it interesting.

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Mike

http://www.mikestarcher.com
1974 Champion/1983 Force 1000/1994 Hilite/2001 Delite/2001 Force 3007/2003 S-Class Pro/2008 SQ2

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Yes!

And from there, if you add pieces, you can always continue to think if groups of four.

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Gregory

As you can imagine, there was a lot on this kit I had a hard time reaching. Set it up for the photo op and promptly broke it down into 3 separate kits (w/the addition of another bass drum).

A 5 or 6 piece kit is plenty adequate for me these days.

The relevant question for Gunnar is not, 'how big is your kit'; it is, 'how big is your back yard?'

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?

Not big enough!

hahahahahahaha

I grew up on very large kits....playing huge show band rock stuff....at huge rock clubs.
Hell it was the 80's.
I don't see too much there Gunnar that I couldn't reach
I'm gonna dig up some old pics. This will be fun. Complete with the hair.

I was just gonna say - Kelly in big hair?

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Gregory

Yup. Huge hair.
Gotta get the wife to dig the box out.

Are you sure you want her to?

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Gregory