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sizzler

sizzler
mainly used in jazz a sizzler makes a cymbol sound well like metalic rain, or frying metal... anywayse it sounds awsome but not alwayse wasy to find a good one... so make one out of junk...
 
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Drum set (ok not necessary but why else would you make this), old guitar strings(assuming your playing with a band this is easy to get), bottle caps the metal twist off kind from soda (or beer maybe?), solder, heat source (even a match will do), wire cutters... its not really that hard I promise...
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Mar 24, 2006. 4:36 PMgoodfeets says:
I've just used lamp pull ball chain attached to a keyring. I thought I invented the idea as an alternative to drilling holes and adding rivets.
Aug 22, 2011. 2:49 PMolivergon says:
The metalic chain is an old trick I saw many years ago from a German friend. He used the ones that come with the lavatory caps.
Mar 24, 2006. 11:23 PMnospleen says:
Thats how I've seen it done too, with the lamp chain. It seems to work really well. Just one strand dangling down the cymbol makes it sound very mystical...or shimmery...or whatever that sound is.
Mar 20, 2008. 9:55 AMTycho7 says:
Cool idea! The two sizzlers I've made for my friends (I'm not a drummer) were made from some rides that we "borrowed" from our local school's music department. I drilled a bunch of holes in them with a drill press, then popped some rivets in the holes. As long as the rivets were only half way popped, they sizzled like bacon.
Jan 12, 2008. 12:03 PMSeMi_AuToMaTic says:
i hate to ask, i might sound stupid, butt can you post a picture of your drumset? There one of my favorite instruments to learn how to play. to stay on the subject of jazz, i got a new saxophone!
Feb 4, 2007. 11:56 AMvati says:
Many Years ago the sizzlers were 2 arms that folded and at the ends were little tamborine jinglers.Now the music shop owner told me that is what the jazz drummers used.I bought one and lost it.I have been looking for one for 40 years now with no luck.This is the closest I have seen,beer tops,Very neat idea.I might give it a try.If anyone out there has seen the one I talked about please contact me,I would like to buy one.Thanks,Vati
Aug 3, 2007. 4:04 PMcymbal says:
those sizzle arms are made by cannon percussion and can be bought thru the internet for about $20.
Apr 3, 2007. 2:22 PMhavic says:
Use some tape and pennies to get that sizzle sound out of my cymals. Just place a few pennies in a row on a strip of tape and stick it on the bell (or where you like) of the cymbal. I use this all the time and it's so cheap and quick to make at the start of a gig. I like the lamp chain idea. I've seen these products at my local music store. All of these methods are great but I'm thinking of making a cymbal with rivets, because of the sustain that is achieved by them. (stirke it once and it just sizzles for days!)
Mar 20, 2007. 4:08 PMThunderexpress says:
The simplest way of doing this is with paper clips. all you have to do is attatch some together and than stick it under the wing nut on your cymbal. It has alot of sustain (more than the bottle caps) because its so light. This gives it really really light sound which sounds cool.
Mar 19, 2007. 2:30 PMThunderexpress says:
Jazz drummers aren't the only ones who use riveted rides some rock drummers use them like ginger baker and mitch mitchell, they did come from a jazzier background though.
Apr 6, 2006. 8:05 AMJoe93 says:
Cool i will give it a go

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