page_title: Heavy metal drumming
section_title: Components
hierarchical_section_title: Heavy metal drumming / Components
caption_attribution_description: A professional level drumset (Pearl Masters Studio BRX) and cymbals.
context_page_description: Heavy metal drumming is a style of rock music drum kit playing that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues rock and psychedelic/acid rock drum playing, heavy metal drummers play with emphatic beats, and overall loudness using an aggressive performing style. Heavy metal drumming is traditionally characterized by emphatic rhythms and dense bass guitar-and-drum sound. The essence of metal drumming is creating a loud, constant beat for the band using the "trifecta of speed, power, and precision".
  Metal drumming "requires an exceptional amount of endurance", and drummers have to develop "considerable speed, coordination, and dexterity ... to play the intricate patterns" used in metal. A characteristic metal drumming technique is the cymbal choke, which consists of striking a cymbal and then immediately silencing it by grabbing it with the other hand, producing a burst of sound. The metal drum setup is generally much larger than those employed in other forms of rock music. Black metal, death metal and some "mainstream metal" bands "all depend upon double-kicks and blast beats".
context_section_description: Like drummers from other rock music genres, metal drummers use a drum kit, 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. 
  Many metal drummers extend their kits from the basic "snare drum, bass drum, toms and cymbals" pattern, adding more drums, more cymbals, and many other instruments. In some styles of music particular extensions are normal, for example double bass drums in heavy metal music.
   
  Common extensions beyond these standard configurations include:
  Effects cymbals, particularly splash cymbals and china cymbals
  Double bass drums. Double bass drums or a double bass pedal are standard for some genres, particularly in heavy metal music
  Extra hanging or rack toms
  Extra crash cymbals
  A crash/ride cymbal in addition to the main ride
  A second, larger or smaller floor tom
  One or more octobans or a pair of mini timbales
  A second pair of hi-hats mounted as cable hats or x-hats
  Cymbal stacks
  Individual tiger, wind or chau gongs
  Multiple ride cymbals. A sizzle cymbal, thinner and larger than the main ride, was once common as a second ride or crash/ride, even in a four-piece kit, but is now less so (jazz drummers, however, may still have two or more ride cymbals, even in a small kit)
  Less common extensions found particularly, but not exclusive to very large kits, include:
  Multiple snare drums
  Multiple bass drums beyond the double bass drum setup
caption: A seven-piece kit with snare, double bass drums, two hanging toms, two floor toms, hi-hats, ride cymbal, three crash cymbals, splash cymbal and china type
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