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We played my company's Holiday Party. It was 'Casino Night' themed, so naturally I volunteered my Swing/Jazz/Rock trio. We had a ball and the cocktail kit was a real topic of discussion! Here's one pic. Not the greatest due to a crappy camera phone. We covered a lot of Ray Charles, Christmas Swing s...

Good to see you are active on the scene and having fun!

Hi Everyone, hope all is well, and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! I'm playing my company's Christmas Party next week! I have a trio which consists of cocktail drums, saxophone, and keys plus vocals. We are doing a lot of Christmas 'swing' songs... Ray Charles, Cole Porter, stuff like "Take the A Train,&quo...

I have some Hot Rods (I think that's what they are called) that have had several of the dowels chipping or breaking off so I only have half on there on one of the bundles.

What are some good rods to use on a cocktail kit?

Welcome to the site! I've been doing the cocktail thing as an side-project for a few years now. So I only play maybe four or five gigs a years with it. I'm actually playing our Holiday Party at work for the 'cocktail hour' portion of the event. How fitting, no? Anyway, yes, switching feet helps. I s...

That looks down-right FUN!

Nice job!

I kind of solved the problem. I lay my stick flat on the 8 inch snare, and cross-stick on the very end of the cowbell located nearby. It controls the stick so you don't get a lot of rebound on the cowbell, and surprisingly, sounds like a rim click. I'm going to post pictures soon of my kit. I've bee...

Hi. My new cocktail kit has a side snare that is 8 inches and is not good for rim clicks because of its size. The main drum is a 15"x24" and because of the depth, and the fact that resting my hand on the head when doing rim clicks muffles the bass drum too much, I need another option there...

Figured there really wasn't much going on here on the forum, so I thought I'd post that I took the plunge and bought a Trixon Elite cocktail kit in the Tangerine Sparkle finish a couple of weeks ago. Jim Laab's Music was excellent in their service, and shipping was five days to So. Cal. I won't bore...

Anyone here sing and play drums? Or in the this case, a COCKTAIL drum? I've always been a singing drummer. And with this new project I'm involved in, a three-piece with sax, keys, and drums, I'll be singing lead on a few songs, for now. Should be interesting because singing and playing a trap kit ca...

Hello friend. After some experimenting with my cocktailer, I kept a single ply head on the bottom of all the drums including the main tom/bass drum, since I always go with a single ply as a resonant on all of my kits (as I'm sure 99 percent of drummers do on their trap kits as well). Of course the c...

16 across x 24 deep.

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I'm using exactly what you see in the link I posted. The whole tray and foam combo. This works quite well because you can remove it and not worry about the ring sticking permanently to the head.

I use the Muff'l one just the kick drum side. I get a nice booming bass drum sound. For the kick, I'm running a coated Ambassador to warm it up a bit. I didn't see the need to go with any thicker head since I have the Muff'l system on there. The top of the drum I have a clear Emperor.

I've been eye-balling those Trixons for a while. I'm not crazy about the fact they are trying to glom onto a storied name in drums, but hey, the same thing has happened to the Slingerland and Rogers name as of late. I think with any Asian-made drums, of which I own and have owned, along with German ...