RB Drum Technique Annoyances

**dochogan** · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 31

For those of you with actual (read: 'real') drum experience, what annoyances do you have with techniques used in RB drum charts?

One that keeps cropping up for me is crash/splash without kick. I was taught to *always* accent a splash/crash with a kick, but there are a lot of places in RB charts that don't do this (no examples, but I'm sure everyone has seen them). My biggest problem is that I just can't seem to *not* kick these anyway, and end up breaking my combos.

Let me clarify by saying that yes, I can hit the green pad without throwing in a bass hit. It's not the *positioning* that's killing me. It's that, when you just *know* that there's a splash/crash coming, either by actually knowing the song or by feeling it in the music, *that's* when I can't not kick.

I know if I were a better drummer I'd be able to break this, but it's been ingrained into me since I first started learning kit.

Does anyone else get tripped up by this, or have other technique annoyances in RB?
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**Drakken** · Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 183 Location: South Jersey

**jameseatworld** · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 33

you can add a kick at the end of your fill and still activate the overdrive, I do it all the time just to keep time with my foot and it works just fine

**lilsushi** · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 133

ag wat annoys me is the kick thing to, but what RLLY ricks me off is the fact that that i want to like hit a cymbal not a tom for crash/splash it jsut feels awkward cause when i play on my real kit i reach up in the air to hit cymbals but on rock band i have to hit somthing below... i donno its hard to explain but it bugs the hell outta me

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**dochogan** · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 31

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**tomahawk72** · Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 13

I always hit bass/crash at the ned of an overdrive phrase. It doesn't break the combo.

**alsoknownas** · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 591 Location: Minneapolis, MN

I dont know if you guys just arent reading right, but he's talking about the big rock band bonus at the END of some songs where they'll just have a crash hit without the bass drum.
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**NoPance** · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 215 Location: Raleigh, NC

It doesn't bother me too much, although I played a lot of jazz set where crashing without a kick isn't too rare (mainly a timbral change from hitting it with the kick).

Also doesn't bug me too much to play with snare/hat/bass at the same time (pretty common in latin/afro-cuban and four-on-the-floor beats).

Really the only thing that annoys me is when they put a custom fill in a weird place (like right in the middle of an 8-bar phrase), and you want to keep grooving instead of putting a really bad-sounding tom fill in randomly, yet you don't have any hihat/ride to use since they get turned into toms. So you either have to go nirvana and ride the crash cymbal, or just deal with how dumb it sounds.

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