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JOEL SIEGEL: All right, some more excitement for us. We've now brought in our trusty cymbal.
Cymbals are fun. They're loud. They can also be soft. You can use them to add a lot of
color. The reason being most is 'cause they're so resonant and they have so many undertones
and overtones that you can really use in your music. There are a lot of different approaches
to playing the cymbal with each stick. So we're going to walk through and we'll talk
a little bit about the different grips and how to get the best sound out of a cymbal.
All right. So as I'm demonstrating, I'm going to be using my crash cymbal. This is an 18-inch
crash. It's a little bit of--it's kinda middle of the road. It's a little towards the jazz
side of things. It's a little thinner and richer and darker as far as your line of cymbals
go, within your range of cymbal sounds. In the jazz application, you find that you can--a
lot of times, if you get the right crash cymbal, it will double as a ride. So all the things
that I talk about in the context of using a ride cymbal, they're going to sound fairly
similar to if I had a full size 20-, say, 22-inch ride and also traditionally over here
on my right hand side. So just keep this in mind that this is kind of a versatile cymbal
and you can apply a lot of these to both crashes and rides.