Hi Hat

I wanted to try something a little different than the traditional hi-hat so I decided to go with chocolate mint, using my favorite stumbled upon recipe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alistair: Drums: simple hi-hat and snare beat with brushes. ❋ Jeff Geiger (2011)

For long periods at a time I only worked with a snare drum and hi-hat and then a bass drum and then finally a ride cymbal and eventually a couple of toms. ❋ Joseph Vella (2011)

The track is dominated by a never-ending bass riff and non-stop hi-hat beat, and on top of this, arranger Paul Riser laid violins, cellos, harp and reverberating trumpet. ❋ George Cole (2010)

I then did the same with the snare (s), and then used a separate patch of hi-hat samples. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ian Smith, the former New Zealand wicketkeeper, titled his autobiography Just a Drummer in the Band, and by his analogy Matthew Prior's keeping, agile, focused and supremely relaxed, sounds like Ringo Starr jauntily riding the hi-hat and nailing the fills while Mahendra Singh Dhoni, jaded, diffident and his timing gone to cock, reverberates like a one-man band tumbling down a marble staircase. ❋ Unknown (2011)

After having been barrelling along at 100mph the track comes to a period of relative calm (a flat area in the track) and it undulates up and down beneath you in time to the hi-hat. ❋ Ben Abraham (2009)

In the title track, with Ms. Bush gently exhorting him, the actor Stephen Fry enunciates 50 words for snow; the song is a modal bit colored by squeals from Dan McIntosh's guitar and driven by Mr. Gadd's brushes chugging on the snare and hi-hat. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2011)

There is a particular part in the 4th track of the album, where the cacophony cuts back to primarily the sound of the hi-hat beating out a straight rhythm. ❋ Ben Abraham (2009)

I recorded myself flicking and banging clutter around my desk—rustling paper for a crisp hi-hat, clattering DVD cases to make a punchy kick drum. ❋ Unknown (2012)

On this song, as you can hear, I did it just before the count-in from the hi-hat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Chris St. Hilaire is busy but never overbearing—to keep things moving while his drums rumble, he lets the ride cymbal sizzle and adds taut figures on the hi-hat. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2011)

I learned to play brushes very early and intensely when I first started playing because I only had a snare drum and then a snare drum and a hi-hat. ❋ Joseph Vella (2011)

When she's pursuing her formidable gift for the charmingly inconsequential – to the point where it sometimes feels as if she's got a slightly bored-looking guy with a bass drum and hi-hat permanently stationed behind her, ready to go ba-boom-tish! every few sentences – she's also making an argument. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And I love the detail that you learned how to use the hi-hat on your drum set from Max Roach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And Mr. Riley combined a bit of both approaches, starting out on his hi-hat and cymbals and moving on to the rest of the kit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This [DJ] has way too much kick [drum] action--he needs to [get with the program] and start spinning hi-hat. ❋ Quantazl (2009)

That hi hat [sounds] so [tight]. ❋ Tre013 (2006)

The song, "Move to [the Beat]" by the [electronica] group Monkey Zound has synthetic hi-hats in it! How [kewl]! ❋ Telephony (2015)

Stereo hi-hat AKA [Janko]; [soon] to be disguised as a [bonfire]. ❋ Dirty Subs (2017)

Every time that [song] comes on, he [gets] [hi-hat head]. ❋ Toddmyers (2010)

[Anette]: Oh baby look at him. Amber: [Oh yah] I'd totally [eat HIS hat]. ❋ AmberBagosis (2006)

"[theres] Dan [just chillin] with his [hat] on!!!" ❋ Miss JoJo (2006)

Matt: [What's up] with you? You look as [happy as a man with tits in his hat]. Rich: Is [that good]? Matt: Very good. ❋ Jimmy Lasers (2009)