How to Do Rim Shots on a Snare Drum

Video Transcript

"Now a different sound that a lot of people use on the snare drum is the rim shot. So there is a few different kinds of rim shots you can use. The first kind is what is called the gock rim shot where you leave the bead of the stick in the center of the drum and the stick is going to make contact with the drum head and the rim. It would sound something like this. It is a very loud high pitch sound now with the bead in the center it would make the pitch a little bit lower then what is called the ping shot where you bring the stick back maybe about a 1 1/2 inch, maybe 2 inches from the rim and it is going to be the same thing the stick is going to make contact with the head and the rim. It is going to sound something like this. So it is a lot higher pitch more of a short staccato sound so that is the gock and that is the ping. Now people there is a in between one but not very not used very often it is just kind of a hybrant between a ping or a gock people would either call it the ging or the pock just kind of combining the words and that is somewhere in the middle of the 2. Most groups that's kind of the danger zone they try to avoid that and either pull back or get that low pitch sound by leaving the beat in the center. "