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#153637 - 10/28/07 03:29 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: basschick_sara]
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Registered: 06/05/04
Loc: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Geesh... How hard are you guys playing bass? We've had the same pairs of mallets for the past 3 years. Lack of funding has cut down on our "all out" playing but still...It might just be me, and I think it is, but that seems like an awful lot of mallets to be broken in one year.
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#153640 - 10/29/07 01:19 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: Skittle]
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Registered: 03/16/07
Loc: Slidell, Louisiana
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Our bass line broke a mallet in half only once. It really depends on how many rim clicks you so, and how hard you do them. I'm not sure what kind of mallets you use, but usually most brands are pretty sturdy.
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#153644 - 10/30/07 10:46 AM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: SuicidalBassDrum]
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Registered: 11/01/06
Loc: Columbus, Ohio
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I don't think I've ever seen a non-defective bass mallet shaft break from normal playing -- if it survived the first 1/2 hour or so of playing, the first thing that died was the felt ball.
Of course, my alma mater and the other high schools near my home town weren't, and still aren't, really into bass drum rim clicks.
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#153645 - 10/30/07 01:09 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: Jessai]
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Registered: 03/16/07
Loc: Slidell, Louisiana
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Our line is using Innovatives, and the only way any mallets have broken is I believe the heads popping off of our first bass's mallets once or twice. Other than that, the things are pretty tough. We do have rim savers, but we also double-wrap the tape for a few inches below the head of the mallet to protect it more on the rim clicks. Don't know if anyone does that, but it's worth a shot to help the sticks live longer. I normally re-tape my show mallets before every game, but the practice mallets can go two or three weeks and not take too much wear until I retape them again.
We use the same things and have the same problems, we taped them, and the tape is staying on relatively well becasue our bass ilne doesn't smack the rims too often, but we do need to get rim guards... But anywho. The mallet eads popped off on our bass 2 mallets, and they're almost brand new mallets. So it must be a flaw with how Innovative makes them, unless our bass line is throwing them around like a football, They used to do that, but i havent seen them do it in a while.
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Freshman 06' - Tenors
Freshman 07' - Snare (Mardi Gras)
Sophomore 07' - Snare (Asst. Captain)
Sophomore 08' - Snare Captain(Mardi Gras) (Asst. Captain)
Fontainebleau High School Drumline
Junior 08' - Snare Captain
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#153646 - 11/02/07 06:10 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: Mannineaux]
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Registered: 02/09/07
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Quote:
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Our line is using Innovatives, and the only way any mallets have broken is I believe the heads popping off of our first bass's mallets once or twice. Other than that, the things are pretty tough. We do have rim savers, but we also double-wrap the tape for a few inches below the head of the mallet to protect it more on the rim clicks. Don't know if anyone does that, but it's worth a shot to help the sticks live longer. I normally re-tape my show mallets before every game, but the practice mallets can go two or three weeks and not take too much wear until I retape them again.
We use the same things and have the same problems, we taped them, and the tape is staying on relatively well becasue our bass ilne doesn't smack the rims too often, but we do need to get rim guards... But anywho. The mallet eads popped off on our bass 2 mallets, and they're almost brand new mallets. So it must be a flaw with how Innovative makes them, unless our bass line is throwing them around like a football, They used to do that, but i havent seen them do it in a while.
Now see, my line used to use Innovative and we never had problems except for the occasional stick break from never retaping and hitting way to hard. I mean, who's really going to hear a rim click anyway. This year we switched to Vic Firth and our bass 1 mallet heads popped off. Bass 5 broke two mallets, and I, bass 4, broke 1 in the stands and it flew into the endzone of the field.
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#153647 - 11/02/07 06:43 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: Skittle]
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I've only ever broken seen one bass mallet broken in my few years of marching percussion. It was my mallet, and when I got it at the beginning of the season it was already pretty splintered (we weren't well funded, and most of our funding was going to the band trip to Hawaii) so I used that one. I broke it on the rim (with a rim guard) during the cadence at a football game. It kinda sucked playing the rest of the cadence with one mallet, but it worked out well enough. The only real problem I had was the 32nd note splits in the bass solo, so I just played a one-handed triple stroke.  I played 2nd bass, if that has any relevance.
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#153652 - 11/29/07 03:15 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: Skittle]
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Registered: 11/29/07
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im not sure anyone in our line has ever broken a mallet by just playing...
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#153654 - 12/08/07 07:08 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: basschick_sara]
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Registered: 05/08/07
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I have to admit its some what a tradition in are drumline to break a stick or a malet before you graduate, i know its kinda of stupied but its true. also supposely its good luck to break one the day before a competition.... dont ask why, i have no idea!!! I've only broken one malet the two years I've been playing, and it was an pratice stick!! what happend was during the pratice before the competition we were doing our big solo part in the show up fron, and i started the 4 measures of rim clicks, i noticed that I broke my right stick in half, not thinking I threw it and our director caught it and threw it back at me while i was crab steping to back feild and told me to use the other end...it worked!! I was more supprised that I actually caught it in mide air crabbing to back feild, then actually breaking the stick!!!! Pluse that night we got best percussion in our class and 3rd best percussion over all!!! while were on the subject of breaking sticks there a bass in the line who seems to break a pair of mallets every week, his my best friend but his stupied and one of the worse players in the line, but still he beats the stuffing out of the drum and the rims,and always at the wrong time. Which gives ua a problem of never having extra sticks, hence now we have to buy our sticks. well I'm done BUY!!!!
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#153658 - 12/15/07 10:05 AM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: Skittle]
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Registered: 11/21/07
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not only do big bass drummers break mallets, but they also break more drumheads that the top basses do
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#153659 - 01/13/08 02:20 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
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Registered: 01/13/08
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ive broken a bass head b4 but not a mallet. I dont think u could do it by just hitting the head, although maybe on a rim
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#160230 - 04/10/08 09:48 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: dredpir8roberts]
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Registered: 09/07/07
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I remember last year twards the end of the season my mallet started to get chips in it. At one of our last rehearsals of the year i was smacking my rim clicks as hard as i could and it wouldnt break. haha
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#161188 - 04/26/08 05:17 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: Corona]
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Registered: 04/26/08
Loc: Alabama, United States
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I saw a college line that uses the metal Pearl rim-savers, and they hit the saver with the head of the mallet instead of the shaft. It really lengthens the life since the head is made to be hit. The only peoblem is that you have to loosen the rim-saver's screws a tad to get a good click, and that the players have to be consistent enough to hit the saver with the head of the mallet every time. Other than that I think it's a great idea.
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#162447 - 05/16/08 11:37 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: Skittle]
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Registered: 05/16/08
Loc: Kansas
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haha reminds me of my freshman year i wass on baby bass and i had ridiculous stick heights like 14" for forte of somthing and the night before our "big competition" i snaped the mallet on our claw stick holder....:(((( it sucked
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#162971 - 05/23/08 08:20 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: baseman_matt]
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Registered: 04/16/08
Loc: California, USA
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We were playing our cadence last year on our way to the football stadium, when I hit the rim and just popped the head off of the mallet. The funny thing was that I didn't notice until some random woman came up and handed the head of the mallet to me..
I was really into that cadence I guess......
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#164780 - 06/11/08 08:41 PM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: Skittle]
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Registered: 06/11/08
Loc: rraya0830
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i don't think i have ever broken one. its been a long time since i played bass though. but i agree bad mallet
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#169458 - 08/11/08 10:42 AM
Re: Breaking Bass Mallets
[Re: wvdrummerboy]
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Registered: 08/09/08
Loc: Northern Colorado
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I've never broken a bass mallet, ever. Somebody stole the bass mallets I played with, so I decided to invest in a pair of Silver Foxes, because I wanted a metal shaft. Those things are monsters!
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