The disco sound has soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady " four-on-the-floor " beat, an eighth note ( quaver ) or 16th note ( semi-quaver ) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line sometimes consisting of octaves.

The other change has been that a pair of hi-hat cymbals are no longer necessarily similar.

To prevent airlock the bottom cymbal of the hi-hat pair has ripples along the edge.

The primary purpose of this is to prevent the bass drum and hi-hat stand from slipping on a wooden floor or similar slippery surface.

Next was the low-boy or low-hat, similar to a modern hi-hat stand, only with cymbals close to the ground.

With slap bass, the bassist slaps the low strings to create a strong " thump " ( similar to the bass drum's role ) and " snaps " or " pops " the high strings to create a percussive effect ( the latter takes over some of the role played by the hi-hat cymbals ).

The effect is similar to a loosely closed hi-hat, or can alternatively be seen as an extreme case of a sizzle cymbal with the upper cymbal serving as a single large jangle.

As opposed to many drummers, who cross over their sticks to play the hi-hat with their right hand and snare with their left hand, Shawn instead keeps time with his left hand, keeps a ride cymbal on the left side of his set, and relegates his right hand for snare drum hits ( similar to Gene Hoglan and Steven Sweet ).

The ride can fulfill any function or rhythm the hi-hat does, with the exclusion of an open and closed sound.

In this sense, the function can be compared to the rhythm guitar or the hi-hat of the drum set in rock music, although the triangle accentuates the third beat more strongly with its high pitched metallic sound, being damped to give a fainter and drier sound on the other beats.

Changing between ride and hi-hat, or between either and a leaner sound with neither, is often used to mark a change from one passage to another, for example to distinguish verse and chorus.

In Adam MacGregor's definition, " the blast-beat generally comprises a repeated, sixteenth-note figure played at a very fast tempo, and divided uniformly among the kick drum, snare and ride, crash, or hi-hat cymbal.

This new set widened his playing ; he abandoned his hi-hat cymbals almost entirely and started basing his grooves on a double bass ostinato with eighth note flams, and a wall of white noise created by riding a crash or ride cymbal.

Avedis made many innovations in cymbals that are still around today ; he was the first to develop drum-set cymbals and gave cymbals names such as ride, crash, splash, and hi-hat.

His collaboration with Armand Zildjian of the Avedis Zildjian Company developed the modern hi-hat cymbals and standardized the names and uses of the ride cymbal, the crash cymbal, the splash cymbal, the pang cymbal and the swish cymbal.

One particular example of Haake's use of polymeter is 4 / 4 against 23 / 16 bimeter, in which he keeps the hi-hat and ride cymbal in 4 / 4 time but uses the snare and double bass drums in 23 / 16 time.

While working in the bands of Edgar Hayes and Roy Eldridge, Clarke began experimenting with moving the time-keeping role from the combination of snare drum or hi-hat and bass drum to embellished quarter notes on the ride cymbal, the familiar " ding-ding-da-ding " pattern, which Clarke is often credited with inventing.

In jazz music a sextet is any group of six players, usually containing a drum set ( bass drum, snare drum, hi-hat, ride cymbal ), string bass or electric bass, piano, and various combinations of the following or other instruments: guitar, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone.

English played the snare with his right hand and the hi-hat and ride cymbals with his left, a technique commonly termed " open handed ".

* Twenty-Introduced at the winter NAMM 2007 as a basic lineup of hi-hat, ride, crash, china.

Many basic drum beats establish the pulse through alternating bass ( on the on-beats ) and snare drums ( on the off-beats ) strokes while establishing the subdivision on the ride cymbal ( thus its name ) or hi-hat:

A hi-hat, or hihat, is a type of cymbal and stand used as a typical part of a drum kit by percussionists in R & B, hip-hop, disco, jazz, rock and roll, house, reggae and other forms of contemporary popular music.

In this variation of the hi-hat, the top cymbal moves down and the bottom cymbal moves up simultaneously while the middle cymbal remains stationary.

So, when the foot plate of the pedal is pressed, the top cymbal crashes onto the bottom cymbal ( closed hi-hat ).

When released, the top cymbal returns to its original position above the bottom cymbal ( open hi-hat ).

This action releases the upper hi-hat cymbal, which falls onto the bottom cymbal and remains there, with gravity then holding the hats loosely closed, and allowing them to be played by the sticks in this position.

On the other hand, if the player manually lowers the top cymbal of a standard hi-hat stand before playing, this allows any desired tension to be set, and the pedal can still be used to increase the tension while playing, but not to open the hats or to reduce the tension.

An X-hat is an adaptor to allow a pair of hi-hat cymbals to be mounted in a closed position on a cymbal stand.

For some instruments, teachers also train students in the use of the feet, as in the case of piano or other keyboard instruments that have damper or sustain pedals on the piano, the pedal keyboard on a pipe organ, and some drums and cymbals in the drum kit such as the bass drum pedal and the hi-hat cymbal pedal.

Other instruments can be played successfully by a guitarist, i. e. ; hi-hat cymbals, organ pedals, bass drum, nose harp, etc.

* By drummers-Drummers such as Larry Mullen mount a tambourine above the cymbals of their hi-hat stand ; others mount it elsewhere.

** Cobra Clutch-Attaches to the side of a hi-hat stand to allow the cymbals to be closed or open ; a foot-controlled version of the drop-clutch

A solo plucked bass guitar part, backed by hi-hat cymbals drumming, establishes the musical theme, a simple three-note figure ; the bass is gradually joined by other instruments, including a blues guitar, wah-wah guitar, Wurlitzer Electric Piano notes, handclaps, horns, and strings ; all are tied together by the ever-present bass guitar line and repeating hi-hat rhythm.

As Kiedis begins to sing, the guitar playing becomes more rapid until it reaches an E major seventh chord that halts the song ; the silence is broken by Chad Smith's closed hi-hat and wood block struck at a moderately fast tempo.

The drum track is filled out with hi-hat cymbal-patterns that nearly always include a hi-hat on quaver off-beats between each kick, and a snare drum or clap sound on beats two and four of every bar.

The hi-hat consists of two cymbals that are mounted on a stand, one on top of the other, and a pedal which can be used to clash and hold the cymbals together.

It consists of one three-zone snare, three one-zone pads, one hi-hat pad, and two cymbal pads.

Modern hi-hat cymbals are much heavier than modern crash cymbals, reflecting the trend to lighter and thinner crash cymbals as well as to heavier hi-hats.

Some examples are Sabian's Fusion Hats with holes in the bottom of the hi-hat, and the Sabian X-cellerator, Zildjian Master Sound and Zildjian Quick Beats, Paiste Sound Edge, and Meinl Soundwave.

* 1983 – Roland TR-909: An extremely popular drum machine during the early 1990s, the sounds of which ( particularly the kick drum and open hi-hat ) are still essential components of modern electronic dance music.

In a drum kit, nearly all the cymbals used are suspended cymbals in the broadest sense, the main exceptions being pairs of hi-hat cymbals.

Five pads are arrayed from left to right for the hi-hat, snare drum, high tom, low tom, cymbal and bass drum.

There is generally a 1-to-1 or 1-to-2 ratio of cymbal players to snares, as snare drummers sometimes play on the cymbals at some point during the performance, much in the manner that hi-hat cymbals are used on a drum set.

After the start of the song, which includes vocal chatter, the song kicks off with a standard drum beat: kick, snare and hi-hat while synthesizers are heard soon afterwards.