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There’s almost an art to playing acoustic drums. I think of it as pulling sound out them. You can’t just hit them, you have to hit them in the right spot at the right angle with the right rebound so you don’t choke the drums. Same with crash cymbals you are best to hit them with a little sweeping motion and with the shoulder of the stick on the bow of the cymbal.
Then there’s tuning…very difficult to get right. Took me years to get good at that. And that’s also really dependent on a quality kit. You need true and even bearing edges, sturdy and round hoops, smooth lugs.
But at the end of the day especially for us adults who aren’t playing professionally, a good electric kit with quality samples works just fine.
Indeed. Working in a drum shop as a teen you’d see people figure this out on the spot when going from a beginner/budget kit to something like a Starclassic Maple kit or a nice set of DW’s. They’d sit down behind a PDP kit (which were really nice beginner kits) and kinda just whack on ‘em, but when they’d sit behind a really nice kit they’d go through and hit everything and then slowly start going over every drum‘s sweet spot as they’re hearing different overtones from different areas ring out.