[malletjazz]

Originally Posted by escalade

I went ahead and googled brake drum and this is what I found:


How the heck do you play this? Where do you hit it? It just looks like a hunk of metal to me.

I had a few moments this evening, so I tried taking a quick video demonstrating the playing of a brake drum. The lighting was horrible, and all I've got is a real cheap-o digital camera that offers a little bit of video capability, so the .mpg file looks like something smuggled out of Area 51. I'll try and produce something a bit better when I get the chance, but I figured I'd offer this for the moment, in case someone out there is curious to find out what a brake drum sounds like.

http://www.malletjazz.com/drumming/iron.mpg (2.9mb)

It sounds like you're hitting a hunk of metal, basically. Still, it's a nice sound, and really effective in the right context(s).

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I think one of the best uses for these that I ever heard n a song was for the music in the movie aliens (alien 2 is you dont know which one it is) but it is very effective in that movie.

of course when you type in brake drum all you are going to come up with is car drum brakes because that is what it is.
we played ours in shool using hard mallets like you use on a marimba.