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Hey guys! I'm Phillip and we are learning how to set up a drum set. And right now I
am going to go over with the different symbols, pretty much as I said, the order of importance.
So first off we are going to go to the high hat cymbals. When drum sets were first being
created, like in the jazz area, the 1920's, this is where it started. People would take
two crash cymbals, like crash cymbals from marching bands, put them on a stand and would
use them like this. And they developed a pedal system, and so everything would work together.
They would have a high hat, a snare drum, like what we just went over, and a bass drum,
which is a big drum that sits on the floor; that's all they would have. So this is the
roots of drumming. This is the most important cymbal. The next cymbal they added would be
a concert ride cymbal, which would then—now we call them a ride cymbal. And, since we
are talking about jazz, it would be the....broad cymbal. And it's used in every type of music;
ride cymbal and high hats, and even these crash cymbals over here are used in every
type of music. But there are different parts of the cymbals, like the rim and the bell.
We can go over that a little bit later. These crash cymbals—now I use two crash cymbals,
I have a really bright and colorful crash cymbal, and then a dark and *** sounding.
It is really hard to explain the sounds and colors of them, because a splashier cymbal
is really bright and comes at you really fast. This one punches you in the face almost with
just a wave of sound. So I'll hit each one and will let you hear them, but is really
hard to explain what they do. So here's a bright splashy cymbal, and here's the dark
and trashier cymbal. I think you can hear the difference. The reason I use the two different
ones is for contrast, so each cymbal doesn't sound the same. What I did when I was younger,
I would go get the same series of cymbals and be like I'm going to get the 15 inch crash
and the 16 inch crash. You really don't want to do that; you want more contrast, because
just an inch in difference in a same series won't give you enough contrast. So if you
are buying cymbals, you want different sounds out of different cymbals. You don't want the
same sound out of all your cymbals.