Setting The Drums On Fire MRR Ebook

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Congratulations on purchasing your first drum set! Now it’s time to get it all set up and ready to play. Although the basic arrangement of the drums in a kit is fairly standard, you have complete freedom to make adjustments to make your setup as comfortable as possible for you. You’ll just need to make sure that every element of your kit is within easy reach from a sitting position.

Each manufacturer has its own mounting system (for mounting the toms on the bass drum or on drum stands). The best systems give you complete freedom in adjusting the height and angle of each drum to suit you.

Once you’re happy with the arrangement of your drums, it’s time to set up the cymbals. As with the drums, you need to make sure you can reach each cymbal without having to stretch. Refer to the diagram on page 34 for the common placement of cymbals in relation to the drum set.

Especially if you’ll be playing Rock or Heavy Metal, you’ll want to invest in good, heavy duty, double-braced hardware. This goes for your drum throne, snare stand, hi-hat stand, cymbal stands, and tom stands if you’ll be using those instead of mounting your toms on the bass drum. Especially important is your bass drum pedal. Make sure to get a chain-drive (preferably double chain-drive) pedal. Since this piece of hardware gets so much use, and abuse, it has to be able to handle the task.

You’ll be really glad you’ve paid attention here--there’s nothing more embarrassing as a drummer than to have your cymbals fall over or your throne to collapse under your weight right in the middle of a performance!

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