In a recent session we did here we used akg 414s on the top of both floor toms a d112 under the lowest floor tom and a d6 on the bottom of the other floor tom.
Playing without a floor tom tom.
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Canopus rfm oil finish 14 floor tom with remo renaissance drum heads on both sid.
Do you think your playing would be better or more interesting if you had 6 toms.
The akg 414s on the top were angled 45 degrees pointed halfway between the rim and the center.
Feel free to comment on which one sounds best to you.
A drum solo performed on a floor tom with timpani mallets.
Jungle beats are a standard tom pattern that are usually easy to play since they re based on riding on your floor tom.
Once you move your hi hat hand over your floor tom your other hand will have unrestricted access to the rest of your kit creating some exciting melodic possibilities exs.
Some kits have more and others have less any number of tom toms in any size can be added to any any kit it s just a matter of the player deciding what they need.
As stated tom toms are the support drums you add to your kit.
In this video i ll be comparing the sound of my toms with and without dampening rings.
And i put a floor tom to the left of me too.
Double miking double miking every tom will allow you to better mold your tom sound.
A standard five piece drum set for example features one floor tom next to the snare and two rack toms above it.
When arranging the toms imagine a half circle running from high tom to floor with the center of each tom head bisected by that imaginary half circle line.
It s a feel thing.
Personally i think snare high tom floor tom floor tom sounds better than snare high tom mid tom floor tom i don t think having more notes in between the high tom and the floor tom does anything to improve the sound.
I don t play fills that go down the kit and i can use the floor and high tom for most everything.
I am playing a.