Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- "Jon Sakamoto" wrote:
> In this the "second 
> hi-hat" stroke you mentioned

The second stoke I referred to is the second stroke in the triplet.

If you study the video, you'll see he doesn't open the hat until the 
third stroke of the triplet. The effect is "t-t-tsh". Remember that 
timing-wise, the triplet occupies the same space as two beats.

You'll also need to bear in mind the fact that you (we) don't have 
as much control over the amount the hi-hats open on the standard 
DTXpress ... we have only three states: closed, half-open, and fully 
open. With a real pedal and real cymbals, you get a complete range 
of control and can "feather" the hat cymbals . I'm afraid that 
without a different hi-hat (Ed recommends the Visu-lite as the 
closest facsimile to the real thing in terms of playability), we'll 
never quite achieve what's on that video. 

If you use this technique much, you'll probably want to change the 
decay on the open hi-hat voice on the brain. By default, they decay 
too fast and sound rather choked. Tinkering with the decay, choosing 
the right voice, and layering two voices, can give a *much* more 
pleasing sound than the brain as it comes out of the box.

Stewart