thats my point, im afraid if i lift the BD they wont touch the ground anymore, I will try it anyways.

What is the common thing to lift a BD?

Nope, I cannot do anything with the pedal itself, I tried. I have a pearl pedal and an Iron cobra, and have the same issue with both. What you guys talk about raising the bass drum itself sounds interesting, but how do you do that without having the legs of the BD losing their grip on the floor and ...

Yeah but that little extra travel really gets "tense". I sense that if I could hit at 90 degrees I would have much less trouble doing fast triplets and more than anything keeping fast 16th notes without growing so tired. I think that extra difficulty on every stroke is really slowing me do...

Hey! I've just realized that when I hit my bass drum the beater doesn't hit at a 90 degree angle but it goes a little bit beyond maybe 20 degrees. After my pedal goes beyond the 90 degree angle it get's very tense so basically to reach the bass drum head I do an extra effort. I think this is really ...

Julián Fernández wrote:Vinnie
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Tony
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Buddy

Copeland
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Cobham
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(so hard to let Ersko, Max, Carlos, Gary, Purdie, Al Jackson, Jordan, Collins, Omar, Jack, Hal and many other out...)

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Awesome! they seem to be having fun!

I think HOD's top ten would have Cobham and Erskoman and maybe even Steve Smith.

I would take Bonham off and put Erskoman.

Jelle I really enjoyed that clip, and yeah what weird cymbal angles, I don't get it, but hey, to each his own.

Yeah good post ghost noter, I am sure there's some reason behind that but it is indeed a rare thing, I don't think I have ever seen it before.