How many of you have snapped your drumsticks.

[Teh_Nfsjunkie91]

Mine are fine, haven't broken anything yet.

EDIT: Uhh... I didn't post this topic.

[eman7131]

And how many sets have you gone through if you have. I chipped the tip of one of them and I am just waiting to see how long it lasts.

[IbanezBassist_v2]

Mine are still in perfect condition, other than being dirty.

[Thats_Bull]

I used my own drumsticks... but if you are playing correctly the sticks should take ages to break (i.e. not hitting the rims of the pads).

[Harsher]

Mine are fine, haven't broken anything yet.

EDIT: Uhh... I didn't post this topic.

That's funny that you didn't post this. BTW my drumsticks are perfect, if you don't bang them together or hit the rims then they will probably last forever.

[SSPWOLF]

I used my own drumsticks... but if you are playing correctly the sticks should take ages to break (i.e. not hitting the rims of the pads).

This statement is both true and false at the same time, lol.

If you are playing CORRECTLY you won't break your sticks. True.

Having playing in a marching band (snare), A jazz band (set), and a few punk/metal/hardcore bands... I can say that broken sticks are as common as dropped guitar picks. (maybe not THAT common.. but, you get my point) There's a reason why even Niel Peart has a bag of extra sticks on stage. ;)

[Xero314]

This statement is both true and false at the same time, lol.

If you are playing CORRECTLY you won't break your sticks. True.

Having playing in a marching band (snare), A jazz band (set), and a few punk/metal/hardcore bands... I can say that broken sticks are as common as dropped guitar picks. (maybe not THAT common.. but, you get my point) There's a reason why even Niel Peart has a bag of extra sticks on stage. ;)

Just wanted to second the fact that all professional drummers break sticks regularly. Actually Witness one break at a Fair to Midland show last week. This is why marching sticks are over an inch in diameter because they can't be carrying a bag of extra sticks with them.

So far I have been threw two sticks due to Rockband, one of the original cheap Ludwigs from normal play, and one Sound Precision stick due to frustration of that damn Boston song. I am glad to say that these kits can take a damn good beating and still work fine, at least mine has.

Oh and it's Neil not Niel.

[Sport]

Marching sticks are way less than an inch in diameter, and they do carry stick bags with them. :)

[mdouet]

How exactly do you break drumsticks on a plastic drum set?

[SSPWOLF]

Marching sticks are way less than an inch in diameter, and they do carry stick bags with them. :)

Actually.. standard 2Bs are probably an inch in diameter or more. They're not an inch "thick" but around... I'd bet more than an inch.


I saw some schools that had snare drummers who carried stick bags, but I never did. Our quad player had a bag and a couple pairs of extra sticks... but broken sticks weren't really the problem, it was dropping the damn sticks... at which point we'd just keep making the same hand motions without the stick. Broken sticks were better, as most of the time you could still play with half a stick.

[Xero314]

Marching sticks are way less than an inch in diameter, and they do carry stick bags with them. :)

You are Right the Vic Firths are .715" in diameter (which is approx 2.5 inch circumfrence). I wouldn't call that way less than an inch, but it is less. Even at .715" (and there are larger ones) these sticks break, I have seen it plenty of times (used to be on a national champion marching band drum line).

[Sport]

Perimeter, definitely more than an inch, but the thickest diameter marching sticks are 3/4 inch. Most marching sticks are around .69" diameter. As for the stick bags, a lot of drumlines tend to march with them. Its not so much for dropped or broken sticks as it is for switching sticks to brushes or different kinds of sticks in the middle of a show or song. Tenor players almost always have stick bags to switch between different kinds of mallets and plain old sticks.