To Ynnus: Yes I am a drummer, I play everything from acoustic jazz to metal. So my cymbal setup will vary in function of the music I will be playing. But of course I use my self-hammered cymbals. Being a drummer looking for a specific sound (and not finding it) is why I once started hammering cymbals (and building snaredrums).
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Well you are on the right track already when you start with "alten 3. Wahl Becken" ! An important thing you have to find out is how cymbal tension and shape change when you hammer here or there. There's no other way to learn it than by trial and error. I learned it like this myself. A few important rules:
- The cymbal must always be in contact with the anvil at the point of impact.
- You have to look and listen what happens constantly. So don't hammer the whole cymbal at once but hammer one circular row and then check what happens.
- Don't start with B20 cymbals, use sheet metal cymbals to begin with, like brass, nickelsilver or B8. Sheet metal is softer and errors will not immediately cause disaster, they can be corrected more easily.
Like Ynnus said it really is a matter of getting the feel for it, which will only happen after much experience. I'm afraid it's just impossible to convert these years of experience into text. Especially because each cymbal is so different and requires a different approach. After all these years of hammering, when someone gives me a cymbal, I don't need to play it to know how it will sound. Just taking hold of the cymbal, running my fingers across the surface, feeling the tension tells me how it is going to sound and what kind of hammering is required to change it this or that way.
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