Using a Mounted Cymbal Stand

Video Transcript

" Hey guys! I'm Philip and we are going over how to set up a drum set. And right now I am going to show you how to put cymbals on the drum set. We set up this stand not too long ago on one of the videos, and I mentioned this apparatus that tilts the angle of the cymbal. So it doesn't really matter what angle it is at when you are setting it up. What you need to do is loosen this top part that has the two felts on it. I'm going to loosen mine. You pull off the metal thing and you pull off the top felt, and most cymbal stands, or all cymbal stands need to have this black thing on the bottom which is the plastic for metal or whatever it is made out of holder, which holds the cymbal to the stand. It actually holds the cymbal up. And then what you need between it, you see the cymbal sits, it needs to have teeth. This is like threads for screwing on the top. You need to have a piece of plastic, rubber or something—they sell stuff. You need to have stuff between the metal and the cymbal, something that will bend, will take a beating and not—something softer than the metal of the cymbal, because it will damage the cymbal with something called key holing, which is when you damage the middle circle, when your playing it. And it's really bad and hurts the value of the cymbal, hurts the sound of the cymbal, and just hurts the cymbal in general. But moving on, this is a cymbal, and to mount it onto the cymbal stand, there is a hole in the middle of the cymbal. You just put it on top, you put it down and you tighten the top back on. Now depending on what sound you want, you may want to tighten your cymbals really tight to make them just punch harder and just decay quicker, which means you know a ... kind of sound, or you make want to loosen them up to make a longer, more drawn out sound that is like.... It depends on what sound you are going for. Most of the time—this is my ride cymbal—and most of the time I don't even have felt on top of it just because I like the tone of this cymbal so much. It is all depending on what you are looking for, and that is something that I can't really teach you because that is something that is all preference. So that is how you mount a cymbal. "