A Roll Around The Drum Kit

March 9, 2010 at 12:00 pm by Nick Long  Category Percussion

A great drum groove is the foundation of popular music, but a surprising number of music lovers can’t tell a snare from a hi-hat. There are a number of articles coming up here on EasyEarTraining.com featuring drums so now seems as good a time as any to take a quick tour around the kit.

Being able to identify parts of a drum kit doesn’t just improve your appreciation of music, it’s also a great skill to have at your disposal when songwriting, allowing you to explain your ideas to your drummer or program a groove into a drum machine with something better than trial and error.

Hopefully by the end of this article you should be able to name all the common parts of a drum kit by sight and by sound.

Lets start by taking a look around a typical rock kit:

Numbered photo of rock drumkit

A Typical Rock Drumkit

  1. Hi-Hat
  2. Ride
  3. Crash
  4. Splash
  5. China
  6. Snare
  7. Bass Drum
  8. Tom Tom

It may look pretty complicated, but we can soon break it down.
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