How to Set Up a Second Crash Cymbal on a Drum Set

Video Transcript

"SHAUN SCHAEFER: Hi, I'm Shaun Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village. And today, we're going to learn how to set up a drum kit. Now, we're going to set up the second crash cymbal stand. This is our ride cymbal stand. We're going to set up this other arm, and we're going to loosen here and then pull this arm all the way up and then you just kind of get it a little close, you know, as the rest of everything. We'll adjust later. So we got that tight, and then we will go ahead and loosen this. This is the head; get it to where we think it might be a decent angle. And loosen these two guys. Same thing, it pulls out. It's a space saving stand; go ahead and put that back in. And then we're going to tighten. So now, it's not--it can't move back or forth, but it can still do this, so we got to tighten this as well. And let's see here. They look--this looks like it could probably go back a little bit. So I'm going to keep that there. And I want to adjust the head too, take it down a little bit with the angle and tighten it back up. And I think that looks pretty close for right now. We won't be able to tell until we get the cymbals on."