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Tips on playing drums louder?
Hey, I'm not new to playing drums, I have quite a few years of experience. However, it seems I have gotten a little too used to playing on an electric set and I need to learn how to play louder on an acoustic. Any tips on how to play louder? I know it's odd to think of playing louder on drums, but the place I'm playing at has a drum shield and they mic the drums, which kinda helps the cymbals be louder but the snare and toms are a little more quiet. Any little tips or quirks that you can think of would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Personally, I would advise against using different sticks or drums at the performance, if possible. Especially the sticks...if you use heavier sticks than you are used to you will fatigue yourself.
You need to retrain yourself to hit the drum properly. Part of it will be muscle conditioning, getting your arms used to working harder, but that should be a very small portion of it. The trick to getting a lot of sound out of the drum isn't hitting it hard...it's hitting is fast. Think of a bullwhip...when the whip is cracked, you move your hand relatively slowly, put the tip moves fast enough to actually break the sound barrier, thereby creating a small sonic boom, hence the crack.
What you should do is the same idea, but one a smaller scale. What you need is the Moeller stroke. There are three Moeller strokes, the low Moeller (useful for playing one handed and fast, like sixteenths or fast eighth notes on the hi-hat), the half Moeller (useful for playing loud back beats) and the full Moeller (useful for playing REALLY lound back beats). All of these strokes use a "whipping" motion to hit the drum very fast without having to tire your muscles by hitting it hard.
A full video description of each of these techniques can be found at vicfirth.com in the Dom Famularo video lessons series. (See sources below for URL).
Good luck, and happy drumming!
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