Good morning. In many of the drum sets there is a drum hit called a “cross stick”. It is a very useful strike but it’s not a rim shot. With the cross stick you can hear the wood sound of one stick hitting the other stick as it is laid on the drum head or laid on the drum head with one end on the edge of the rim. That is a cross stick sound. The sound that Im specking of can be performed in two different ways. One is where instead hitting the drum head you just hit the metal rim of the snare as hard or soft as you want for the desired sound. Thats is one type of rim shot. The other way is where you lay one end of the stick on the drum head usually the small end and lay the large end of the of the stick on the metal rim of the snare raise the large end of the stick up pivoting the stick on the small end (leveling the smal end touching the the drum head) and strike the metal rim with the large end of the stick as hard or soft as you want to make the sound. It has a “thawak” sound, It is usually played at a soft or moderate hit (just not supper crazy loud). Kind of metallic in nature. It sounds nothing like a cross stick. The cross stick is very useful in a lot of rhythms but it not a rim shot. Having a true “rim shot” in ball the drum sets would be a big help specially where your trying to program a slower Country rhythm or slow Ballad rythum. This sound is not in any drum set you have at all. I believe it to be a staple for the above genres of music. Please includ the sound in the drum sets on your next update.
