Of course the bass drum would be the brightest with the biggest puff from the fog machines looking like smoke from an explosion. High hats would be fashioned to look more like machine guns and crashes would be bigger than even the bass drum.

The entire drum set would be enveloped by a cloud of faux smoke illuminated by drum strikes that would look like lightening flashes in a thundercloud.

Drums and war have historically gone together, let's celebrate that lineage in dramatic fashion but with fewer deaths resulting.

Goes without saying, this is for heavy metal bands only.
-- doctorremulac3, Dec 19 2023

(?) Inspired by minoradjustment's idea to have strings trigger lighting effects on this idea.. Harp_20With_20Light...20Ones_20To_20Pluck
[doctorremulac3, Dec 19 2023]

Wonder if anybody ever just put a fog machine in a bass drum to have to blow "smoke" rings through the hole in front when hit.
-- doctorremulac3, Dec 19 2023


[+]. Obviously. We put sound triggered strobes in a bass drum. Tricky to get it to fire/not fire with the right drum given the inconsistency of drummers and proximity to other loud objects.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 19 2023


Could have the drum "heads" be trigger pads to fire actual machine guns, mortars, mines, etc.
-- pocmloc, Dec 19 2023


Oooh, like that.

John Bonham of Led Zeppelin said when they started playing the song "Trampled Under Foot" he felt like the stage should start rolling forward on tank treads over the audience.

Hey, he said it, not me. Greatest drummer who ever lived, maybe not the nicest fellow.
-- doctorremulac3, Dec 19 2023


//actual machine guns, mortars, mines, etc.//

The machine guns and mines could work. With the mortars, you'd have an annoying lag each time the bomb dropped to the baseplate to trigger the propellant charge, which would mess up the rhythm - not to mention the much longer lag before the much louder bang.
-- pertinax, Dec 20 2023


[pertinax] if the time delay is exactly the same each time then it can be done, by acclimatising to the delay. Not sure how much of a delay there is in a mechanical tracker organ action, but certainly swinging church bells have a delay up to 1 second from action to sound, but good ringers can be rhythmically very precise, it is just down to technique, practice and getting used to the delay. The angle of the launch tube maybe could be used to adjust the time interval between launch and impact, and then that time interval could also be learned and incorporated into the rhythm, similar to how loop pedals are used in live performances.
-- pocmloc, Dec 20 2023


“Max Roach Wins WWII!”
-- minoradjustments, Dec 20 2023



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