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Summary: Your feet are very important when playing a drum kit. Learn how they are used to make high hat adjustments in this free video.

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How to Adjust a High Hat

JOEL SIEGEL: All right. I want to call your attention to a nice little feature of the hi-hat, and that's this little screw that lives down here. He's going to adjust the angle of the bottom hi-hat. As you could see as I go up it lifts the washer and in turn lifts the felt washer and the bottom hi-hat. You could see that's now quite an angle. What this does it gives your two cymbals an angled attack, rather than just going straight together. When they go straight together, the sound, you're not going to get that much sound because, relative to time, it's just kind of one contact whereas if you have an angle, then as kind of a time goes forward, you're going to start with that kind of a hit, and then they're going to clasp together. So, you get more of a sound. This is just heel down, just to demonstrate, heel down, a closed stroke. You can hear that there's a little more sound than when we'll go ahead and demonstrate, totally flat. Just that crisp, one note instead of kinda longer, flam sound.

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