page_title: Drum kit
section_title: Small kits
hierarchical_section_title: Drum kit / Common configurations / Small kits
caption_attribution_description: English: Slim Jim Phantom live, Stray Cats concert in Sweden, 2008
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: If the toms are omitted completely, or the bass drum is replaced by a pedal-operated beater on the bottom skin of a floor tom and the hanging toms omitted, the result is a two-piece "cocktail" (lounge) kit. Such kits are particularly favoured in musical genres such as trad jazz, bebop, rockabilly and jump blues. Some rockabilly kits and beginners kits for very young players omit the hi-hat stand. In rockabilly, this allows the drummer to play standing rather than seated.
  Although these kits may be small with respect to the number of drums used, the drums themselves are most often normal sizes, or even larger in the case of the bass drum. Kits using smaller drums in both smaller and larger configurations are also produced for particular uses, such as boutique kits designed to reduce the visual impact that a large kit creates or due space constraints in coffeehouses, travelling kits to reduce luggage volume, and junior kits for very young players. Smaller drums also tend to be quieter, again suiting smaller venues, and many of these kits extend this with extra muffling which allows quiet or even silent practice in a hotel room or bedroom.
caption: Slim Jim Phantom playing a two-piece kit while standing
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