Foot Pedal Snare Drum

I fiddled around for months with the idea of connecting a foot pedal to a snare drum, i use snare in some of my songs and thought it would be nice to have one in my live set up.I tried all sorts of elaborately designed frames to hold the drum in position, nothing worked and i was going to give up, them i thought of screwing a flat piece of wood to the front on a hinge then using the foot "pedal grip" to grip a slightly upturned section of the rim...and it worked! Sits nice and solid, great sound, can't wait to try it live...but with four pedals things might get complicated - i can see some rehearsal will be necessary! (-;
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  • this is me trying to crack a double pedal on the sanre and a singl pedal on the bass...urgh!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twyYkHjH0K8

  • Steve I'm trying to crack this with a snare, they now come from china cheaper now

    your heel gives you fills or runs...er eventually

    if you use the bambo beater sticks off ebay for bass drum pedal sounds more lika a snare too

    ebay item  - 261268755385

    I rate these above

    see a typical pedal below its not easy though!

    from china these below are about 70 quid

    duratec do them or frame?

    http://www.mikedolbear.co.uk/story.asp?StoryID=750&Source=Archi...

  • Thanks Steve
    I had a drum pedal that fitted to my snare
    That kept coming off.
    Been playing mine since last year but
    This looks so simple and effective
    I have an old marching snare with a big metal flange
    So will try than next if not I will start drilling holes
    And doing the same.
    Thanks for the tips.
  • Thanks for posting this , Slowpaw.   A very elegant  simple solution , that eluded me !   I will only be trying only two pedals at once . Because I only have two," left", feet !     

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