What is you favorite move to do while playing cymbals?

Mine (other than twirling and throwing the cymbals to each other) is doing a sizzle suck!!!

My favorite is either splitting diddled 16th notes at 180 beats/min, or a loud, tight press (sizzle).

Hitting the perfect unison crash...


...while crabbing.

I like to play Gambit on the cymbals! yea, thats the stuff!

Split 32nd note taps are fun.

Split parts, with a line that can play them are fun as hell. But i guess im old school- a stickler for technique. a line of 10 people playing 18's and 20's all exicuting pristine technique is the coolest thing ever. to the untrained eye of some spectators they are taken aback. i have had more than one person who was watching our line warm up before a game come up to me and ask how i do [technique]. Also flips might be my favorite thing to do. Our line flips our cymbals up and down, thus they flash about but all at the same time.. I just love watching video or standing back and watching it happen its impressive.

I like flipping them in a wave like motion with the rest of the cymbal line. My line did that my freshman year and at every show when we did it the crowd went crazy!

When I played cymbals my freshman year, I liked to write all kinds of awesome visuals, plus I got to write a tag to the song "What Is Hip?"

Ummm... I'm a tenor player so I don't really know how to play very much on cymbals but I like doing slides.

all visuals are fun on cymbals, i like doing the really hard ones. we had one once on a line of 5 where we were jumping over eachothers cymbals, rolling over eachother's backs...it was crazy, but everyone loved it!

i play snare but when i get bored and pick up a pair, i love doin penny rolls.

I just started playing cymbals a lot more, and i remember watching my band teacher freshman year during a band concert, and he spun the cymbals against each other.. I dont even know what its called, but he got a sound almost like a suspended cymbal role out of them. Possibly the coolest thing i've seen thus far... then again I live in Vermont and we dont really have marching bands up here...

That's a cymbal roll. You press the edges of the cymbals together, and rotate your wrists, making sure to keep contact at all times on the edges of the cymbals. It's a pretty difficult thing to perfect, but once you do, it's great.

Actually, it's called a Vibrato Roll.

As discussed before, there is not a set list of names for what are done on cymbals.

One person make call a Crash a "Power Crash", and the next may call it a "West-Coast Crash", and the next make call it a "Horizontal Crash" or a "Slide Crash."

I guess that's true. But what if you were doing a two-plate roll? Is that the same as a vibrato roll or just "roll"? I don't know much about this stuff.

Sorry if I came off as a douchebag in my last post. I've had a rough few weeks with Bronchitis (Three days before All-Days, too. Fun, eh?) and it's catching up to me.

A two-plate roll . . . Isn't that the same as a Cymbal Roll or Vibrato Roll? . . . I'm . . . confused. Explain to me what a two-plate roll is?

I'm trying to expand my knowledge of West-Coast AND East-Coast techniques as much as I can. Hence, I'm marching with a Corps that is doing East-Coast, and I march with a Winterline that uses West-Coast.

No problem. Hope you feel better. A two plate roll is when you slide the edges of the cymbals against each other where one cymbal goes around each other. It's very easy to do.

The Vibrato Roll is when you spin the edges of the cymbals. This requires wrist motion and take a bit work to learn.

Since our cymbal line is all girls, we get to sit on the ground while the rest of the drumline walks over us. Gets the judges at competition everytime

Oh, now I understand, Jeff. We (Readers of the Cym. Tech. 101 book/West Coast) call what you call a two-plate roll a "Closed Roll."

I like to flip them.

i made up a visual last year. There was guard next to us and the sabres were stabbing our heads. the left cymbal moves up beside your head while the right goes down by your leg. you then "kick" the cymbal and flip it up it looks really cool and is fun to do if your bored

Cymbal toss!

My drumline has only two cymbal players so during some parts of the show and during our parade piece. We hold for the 3 snare drums which sounds nice exp. on this one part were the snares play sixteeths on both cymbal and their snare.

The main thing I was ever taught was it doesn't matter how many flips, chucks, tings, taps, tongs, slides, sizzles, slams, sucks, hats, or different kinds of crashes you do nor does it matter if you're doing back flips over the guard in supposed unison and then front flips rippled over the tubas, without ridiculously almost insanely blood curdling perfection, they all aren't sh!t. A line that has no visuals but maxes out their technique will look far more impressive than a dirty visual filled line. My instructor back in the day once told me, "Cymbals are by nature the most visual musical instrument on the field at any given time. We don't necessairly need to do a pit viper every 2 seconds, just the super-cleanliness of our basic technique is impressive enough because we're all vibing and hitting the same angles and the glare from all of your cyms pops at the same time and it's a beautiful thing."

A good example is Vanguard. Yeah they do some bomb a$$ visuals. None of which require very much more knowledge or skill (besides the pit viper) But their intensity and super-cleanliness put them one step above the competition. That's why my favorite visual is piss clean technique, you can't have any other visuals be badass w/o it.

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well i tend to like todo handstands, sometimes a decent lil two person one hit. lol. also i think it is fun to spin them around your wrist it is cool. but it burns so much! ahhh

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Cymbal toss!

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get a nice little gust of wind and loose a limb... lol. it's happened. lol. but seriously i tried that once, threw it to hide and it came down really fast. it was scary



That's a double post my friend, and that's a no-go here on DLO. You've got 6 hours to edit your posts, so make sure you do it. Capisce?

My favorite thing to do on the cymbals is to hit them loud!

. . . wow

Definately doing the PattyCake with the cymbals....MWUAHAH!!!, thats definately my favorite thing to do.

I alway wanted to use a pair of cymbals on the elastic bands like the SCV has

I think playing any sort of split double tap parts are fun. I also just like creating any of the special effect sounds like scrapes, sizzles, and even the weird ones like the cow-call.

i was on cymbal line before i made tenors.

i enjoyed ALL the visuals we had for our winter show.

at the very beginning of our show every one had a way of waking up from the 'dead' and i got to literally throw them up in air (not high though) and flip them over in a way that they would perfectly fall into my grip.


weird.
but fun=]

SLIDES!! i loved doing those

hahaha
we did cymbal toss our freshman year
it was amazing
but playing-wise
sizzles are the best for sure
unless you have an awesome cymbal line that can play sick splits

omg you have to be a monster to pull that off

i have to say i love the domino crash
one person hits another, who hits another, and so on
its really cool visually and its pretty easy

oh yeah and my soph year we had sick cymbal spilts that were awsome untill the battery director told one kid not to play cuz he couldnt even handle marching so they just sounded awful cuz we couldnt cover his beats...=( boo

Not really. Time, dude. Time.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

me and my fellow tenor both marched cymbals our rookie year. sometimes to joke around, we'll each get a pair of cymbals and split slides as fast as we can o.0.

and i might add in we'd make a kick but cymbal line me and him.

...hehe im a tenor player... but my tenor section leader marched cymbals for pioneer indoor. And showed me some stuff. I do give much respect to cymbal players though. you guys really do some hard stuff.

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Haha, at our last show... My brother and I did a butt wiping visual during the drumline solo, then we did our "smack that" visual as the snare rocked in the same direction, lol. Maybe not the best visuals... but they're fun. Oh, and we like to bow on occassion.