Low Cymbals Vs High Cymbals - Which is Better?

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There's a cold-war afoot, and it's not what you think.

It's low-cymbal drummers vs high-cymbal drummers. Assuming you've got enough character and integrity to choose a side, I'd recommend either REALLY low, or just APPALLINGLY HIGH.

There are merits to both approaches. Low cymballers are often classic, stylish characters, and first principles thinkers. On the kit, low cymbals keeps things close together, and allows small movements.

High cymballers, though there's a long tradition, tend to be iconoclastic instagrammers, bent on world domination. But they won't balk if you wear PJs all day, or eat Chipotle for every meal. They seem like my kinda folks.

In practice, high cymbal kits make you feel ensconced within cymbals, and the larger distances between and among surfaces make playing a high cymbal kit more of a physical enterprise.

This debate would almost be settled, were it not for the unwelcome presence of a third contingent. The stackers...