I was just thinking........ last week we had two rehearsals and a gig. As the rehearsals were in different studios I used four completely different kits in the week.
I always use my own seat, snare, BD pedal and cymbals but the kits are very different.
For the gig I used my kit, 20" BD, 2 up one down, 10, 12, 14.
Studio one is a bop kit, 16" BD one up one down, 10, 13.
Studio two has a two up one down, but the BD is 24" and the toms are long shell 12, 13, 16. This means the toms are about 6" higher than I normaly use. I am only 5' 5" tall by the way so I love a small kit.
My practice at home kit is a Yamaha DTX, a cheap one, so you cant get the pads the same distance apart as my giging kit, but I would be lost without it.
I realised that pretty soon after starting to play on the strange, to me at least, setups, I make a mental adjustment and dont seem to have any problems playing what I want.
I would have thought that the years playing my gig and practice kits would have ingrained muscle memory to such a degree I would be looking for drums where they dont exist when playing an alien setup, but aparently not.
Anyone else find problems adjusting to odd setups or do we all make this subliminal adjustment.
Also, anyone have a record for the number of different setups played in a short space of time. Drum shop employees are disbarred from this, by the way.
I always use my own seat, snare, BD pedal and cymbals but the kits are very different.
For the gig I used my kit, 20" BD, 2 up one down, 10, 12, 14.
Studio one is a bop kit, 16" BD one up one down, 10, 13.
Studio two has a two up one down, but the BD is 24" and the toms are long shell 12, 13, 16. This means the toms are about 6" higher than I normaly use. I am only 5' 5" tall by the way so I love a small kit.
My practice at home kit is a Yamaha DTX, a cheap one, so you cant get the pads the same distance apart as my giging kit, but I would be lost without it.
I realised that pretty soon after starting to play on the strange, to me at least, setups, I make a mental adjustment and dont seem to have any problems playing what I want.
I would have thought that the years playing my gig and practice kits would have ingrained muscle memory to such a degree I would be looking for drums where they dont exist when playing an alien setup, but aparently not.
Anyone else find problems adjusting to odd setups or do we all make this subliminal adjustment.
Also, anyone have a record for the number of different setups played in a short space of time. Drum shop employees are disbarred from this, by the way.
Different kit formats.
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