Gear
Birth Of The Modern Hi-Hat
Get schooled on the history of the hi-hat, starting with when it first appeared on recordings. Fun hi-hat facts are included to impress your friends.
Lessons
Tom Brechtlein: Three Fills For Three Limbs
Give your left foot a break for a minute while Tom Brechtlein offers a few exercises to help you develop fills with bass drum, hi-hat, and snare.
Gear
Meinl Introduces Reversible Pair Of Hi-Hats
You’ll never tire of your cymbal sound with Meinl’s new 13" Derek Roddy Signature Serpents hi-hats. Just turn them over for a entirely different tone.
Lessons
Rich Redmond: Add Pea Soup To Your Groove
Rich Redmond demonstrates how to add contour to his “money beats” concept by applying some “pea soup” hi-hat patterns to the recipe.
Gear
Zildjian 3 Hat Packs Expand Hi-Hat Colors
Zildjian has come up with an easy way to expand your hi-hat colors with the 3 Hat Packs, which combine a pair of matched hi-hats with a third cymbal.
Gear
Legacy Percussion Remote Speedy Hat Reviewed!
Remote hats are notorious for unwanted latency, and often still don’t put the cymbals exactly where you want them. Then there’s the Remote Speedy Hat.
Lessons
Matt Byrne’s Metal Method: Inverted Beats
Let’s mess around with some inverted beats between the kick, snare, and hi-hats, as well as with some beats that incorporate left-foot patterns on the hi-hat.
Gear
Video: Istanbul Mehmet’s New Hat Trick
We just returned from the 2010 Percussive Arts Society Convention, which took place on November 11—13 in Indianapolis, Indiana. We saw plenty of cool gear there, including a little gem at the Istanbul Mehmet booth, where product specialist Hakan Açikalin gave us a tour of the Turkish cymbal smith’s newest innovation – the Hat Trick.
Lessons
Drumming Details Part 1: The Hi-Hat
Lessons
Drum Basics: Hi-Hat and Bass Drum
In this lesson, master educator Steve Houghton provides a basic drum workout from his top-selling book Drumset 101, co-authored with Dave Black. Work through the exercises to better understand basic technique for bass drum and hi-hat. Take a look at the videos to see the proper technique..
