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Originally Posted by revxml  I'm right there with ya. I've been playing since I was twelve or thirteen, and I'm forty now (not as active gig-wise as I used to be). But I always loved the snare sound that Stewart Copeland got, in fact I bought a CB brass 13x5.5 snare (I was in a bind because someone broke into a club I was playing and stole my birch tama and some other items) that ended up being the best, tightest, snare I've ever played. Anyway, to get that sound I played rimshots on the snare, almost constantly. Plus, I was never quite a "glancing" cymbal player. Consequently, the 808s lasted much longer than the 5Bs (or any other comparable stick) did.
Good look with the new sticks!
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I've use glancing blows to the cymbal in certain applications, like jazz. I think it does have it's place... but I prefer straight up and down. I feel you on the rim shots as well because sometimes if the song is calling for it rim shots dominate. It is another sound. If you play right you can get thousands of sounds from one drum...