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JOEL SIEGEL: So the next two aspects of the open hi-hat that I want to talk about--these
are kind of more of accessory sounds. If you're trying to get a little out, they're not going
to use a whole lot, but if you want to get some kind of special textures, you can use
these sounds. And this is getting the wash out of the hi-hat and that's the sound that
you get when you start to have a lot of the different overtones from the cymbals and you're
striking the side of the cymbals--or towards the edge of the cymbal. That's what's going
to affect the wash. So this is striking the side of the hi-hat getting that wash sound.
It's a bit of a crash, you know. If you want just kind of another crash in your vocabulary--a
smaller one than your eighteen and your seventeen, whatever you have around your kit--you can
use that. That's always an option. The other aspect of the hi-hat--also not used often
but good to know about just because it's a different texture and color--is going to be
your dome, and you can play it open. It's that real piercing sound like it's time to
eat, and you can also play it when it's closed. It's a real choked sound--just adds another
flavor, another texture, another color to your musical soundscape.