I like to play with silencers on the the rims of my drums. I understand it makes the rim shots a little less consistent. When training the snare drum should i just omit them from training? I play mostly center, edge and cross stick sounds
Also I am wondering when training a snare drum, should i play buzz rolls if i play them a lot in my playing? I feel like maybe the ghost notes are less than accurate
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hi @Keaganobrien great questions.
I would definitely recommend only training zones you plan on actually using. So if you donât plan on playing rim-shots, just donât train them. All the zones have a logical fall-back zone. So if you donât train a zone and then you make that gesture on the drum, you will still get sound.
And yes, absolutely give it some buzz rolls. You want to give the training a variety of velocities and examples of all the kinds of playing you will do.
Hey @Keaganobrien thanks for the kind words! Glad youâre enjoying Sensory Percussion. Wanted to add that you might be interested in checking out our training tutorial, which goes over a lot of these topics.
For your first question re: rubber rims, it shouldnât necessarily affect how accurately the software detects rimshot-center and rimshot-edge zones (as long as you train those zones with the silencers on). But like Tenoch said, if youâre not using those zones, you can skip training them.
What you might be noticing when the rubber rims are attached is that the rim-tip and rim-shoulder zones are coming in at a much lower level volume-wise than they do without rubber rims. There is actually a head ââ rim slider in the training window that allows you to adjust the relative incoming velocity values between head and rim zones. So you might want drag that slider towards the ârimâ side to make up for the velocity attenuation caused by the rubber silencers.
In our training tutorial, there are also some examples of the variety of speeds/volumes you should play while training any given zone. Like Tenoch said, definitely throw in some buzz rolls if you plan to play those!