page_title: Drum kit
section_title: Four-piece
hierarchical_section_title: Drum kit / Common configurations / Four-piece
caption_attribution_description: The Jimi Hendrix Experience performs for Dutch television show Fenklup in 1967
context_page_description: A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.
  A standard modern kit, as used in popular music and taught in music schools, contains:
  A snare drum, mounted on a stand, placed between the player's knees and played with drum sticks
  A bass drum, played by a pedal operated by the right foot, which moves a felt-covered beater
  Two or more toms, played with sticks or brushes.
  A hi-hat, played with the sticks, opened and closed with left foot pedal
  One or more cymbals, mounted on stands, played with the sticks
context_section_description: A four-piece kit extends the three-piece by adding one tom, either a second hanging tom mounted on the bass drum (a notable user is Chris Frantz of Talking Heads) and often displacing the cymbal, or by adding a floor tom. Normally another cymbal is added as well, so there are separate ride and crash cymbals, either on two stands, or the ride cymbal mounted on the bass drum to the player's right and the crash cymbal on a separate stand. The standard cymbal sizes are 16" crash and 18"–20" ride, with the 20" ride most common.
caption: Mitch Mitchell playing a classic four-piece kit in the Jimi Hendrix Experience
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