What A TOURING DRUMMER uses on STAGE!

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People always ask what gear I am using while I am touring with Galactic, so I decided it was time to make a video to show ya'll what gear comes with me on the road!
It's a Gretsch Brooklyn series kit with my signature Spirit of New Orleans Titanium Snare. The sizes are 8x12,14x14, 16x16 and 14x20. I get a lot of questions about my auxiliary 14x26 bass drum and I answer a lot of those questions in this video. I've added lots of fun percussion over the years including my LP signature pandeiro. Check out the kit and let me know what you think in the comments.

[@gbass598]

As a drumline teacher, I love the reference to a metronome as an argument resolver. The Dr. Beat does not lie.

[@gustafsone]

It's been 22 years since I last marched, and I can still hear that goddamn Dr. Beat in my head every now and then. As necessary as he was, I HATED him!

[@johannjohann6523]

A better way of saying it I think" "What a Professional drummer uses playing live"? Whatever is on stage! As they can make any drum set sing and sound good! And Mr. Moore is a perfect example of that! Thanks for finding time to offer real world stellar advice to other drummers, and those who simply love the music! "Life Without Music (and Drums) Would Be A Mistake"!

[@stantonmooremusic]

Thank you for tuning in! 🙌🏼🥁👊🏼

[@mitchagain9057]

Great Idea to tape that Metronome on a Cowbell!! :)

[@alexalja]

More than a rig tour, this is a very well done music lesson. Thanks for the generosity of making this video!

[@stantonmooremusic]

🙏🏼

[@deployed_drums]

Can’t wait for that lunar crash! Thanks for the rundown, awesome education as always!

[@Jrenglehorn]

Same!!!! Might have to consider Zildjian....

[@erikhamann]

Love your enthusiasm! 🤘🏻

[@iRideuWatch]

Very unique and awesome set up

[@stantonmooremusic]

🙏🏼🥁🙌🏼

[@emilioangelone6919]

Great stuff! Thank you for all the interesting secrets!

[@tallan9698]

The tempo/metronome part is worth it's weight. One of the best things you can do if you are a working drummer. If you are out there working with different musicians, and singers particularly, you know what I am talking about.

[@jphifer2848]

You are right. If a guy like Stanton Moore feels completely relaxed about using a metronome, then you know that a metronome is not going to “kill your feel”…

[@tombailey1059]

That was my least favorite part. If the song is slightly faster tonight than it was last night, then that's what the occasion called for. A moment when the song is dragging but is technically accurate according to the metronome, that's a moment where the musicians are selling the moment and the audience short. Settling a hypothetical argument doesn't seem like a good enough reason to impose that kind of rigidity on live music.

[@stuartcarswell2815]

Love your style and enthusiasm Stanton..best wishes from Liverpool 🥁😎

[@stantonmooremusic]

Thank you! 🙏🏼

[@CarStory]

Hats off to whoever has to set all that up and take it all down.

[@bg357wg]

You mean Hi-hats off… *BA DUM (Insert Hihat cymbal falling sound)*

[@drumlover1687]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@portnickos]

That's a great video, malaka!! The Titanium SONO is my all time favorite snare, big time!! That "jingles inside the cowbell" thing is super cool!! I'm gonna try it myself too!! And of course, we all diggin' the ultimate "argument dissolver" (Amen)!! Yes indeed!! ✌🏻😎✌🏻🍻🥁🎶❤️

[@stantonmooremusic]

Yes indeed! Thanks Malaka!!!

[@erikl6988]

Stanton you rock. Glad you are still doing your thing after all these years.

[@stantonmooremusic]

🙏🏼

[@erikl6988]

@@stantonmooremusic I'm glad you replied sir, in hopes that you will read this little story from my youth. My friends and I discovered funky music in high-school back in 2002, thanks to your grooves. We'd ride around in our crappy used Buicks jamming to Galactic, then ventured into Herbie, The Meters, and John Scofield. Since I was predominantly a metal fan before that, I even picked up the album you did with Corrosion of Conformity (killer performance!) I've been listening to your work ever since, even though I mostly play guitar nowadays. Take care!

[@stantonmooremusic]

@@erikl6988 I love hearing that! Thanks for sharing that story and thanks for digging what I do! 👊🏼

[@Yung-Cook]

This is so cool, btw I loved your zildjian live performance

[@andrewwarrendrums8969]

What a cool setup!

[@BadChizzle]

Your kit is great! I’m putting one together with random Ludwig drums 12” 13” 15” 16” toms and 22” kick, with Acrolight snare. Zildjian K sweet set 15” hats, 17”, 19” crashes with the 21” ride… with some vintage Zildjians 50s, 60s and 70s mixed in. Bam! Let’s Rock!!!!!!!

[@stantonmooremusic]

Sounds like a fun kit! 🙌🏼

[@yourdrummer2034]

Love the New Orleans Funk you lay down Sir! You are a huge influence on me as well!🙏❤

[@Sundaydrumday]

Absolutely vibe with you Stanton, look up to you and appreciate all the tips and stuff it really helping me better my playing!!

[@stantonmooremusic]

Thank you so much for saying that. I love hearing feedback like yours! 🙏🏼🥁🙌🏼

[@Sundaydrumday]

@@stantonmooremusic absolutely!!

[@LowBoyBeaters]

Your double kick pedal trick is really interesting! I might have to try that.

[@stantonmooremusic]

🙏🏼

[@Hinklish]

Rocking.

[@joecoleman288]

I too run the DB-90 in my ears only. I just wish it had more than 50 presets. I play with 4 different artists, that's 130 songs I have to constantly re-program for each...gig.

[@RobEdwardsD.T.Nashville]

NICE MAN!

[@drummercarson896]

I love it

[@hiptoalieu]

I LOVE YOUR COWBELLS!!!!!

[@stantonmooremusic]

🙏🏼

[@altonchenier1174]

The kit needs its own bus

[@ShadowDatsas]

oh wow that is just an amazing kit! Are there any online videos from the live gig we see clips of? It looks beyond this world!

[@stantonmooremusic]

There will be! Stan Zlotkowski who filmed this is working on some edits now. Stay tuned! 👊🏼

[@BradLynn-xy7mj]

I gotta get a pandeiro!

[@stantonmooremusic]

Yes indeed! 🙌🏼🥁👊🏼

[@tdrum21]

Dig it 👌🏽

[@ablackshedd]

Nice one, brother. :)

[@DarrenMcGill442]

I love the way you use the Pandeiro in the kit. Just curious how it would cut through without micing? I never played one buy my fear is I'll love it and have to start micing it!

[@stantonmooremusic]

Thanks! It really shines when it has a mic underneath it. I usually don’t use it unless I can mic it.

[@mikebeck6]

YO was this shot at vinoski winery? I was at that show for my birthday!

[@ZildjianCompany]

♥

[@stantonmooremusic]

🙏🏼

[@papapoodo6685]

@@stantonmooremusic Your enthusiasm is contagious sir! Thank you!

[@stantonmooremusic]

@@papapoodo6685 Thank you! 🙏🏼

[@drumlover1687]

Stanton your set is any drummers dream! Love your playing, and your boundless enthusiasm for all things rhythmic!

[@arrigoaxia]

Nice big round felt bassdrum beaters. Are they DW made? Gorgeous kit...

[@stantonmooremusic]

Yep! DW felt beaters

[@thirdlineage]

Do you have a cowbell with jingles on the inside? (@ the 1:55 mark of the video)

[@stantonmooremusic]

Yes, it's the LP Raw cowbell. Very cool. I'm always looking for ways to add jingles to things.

[@ConnorEhrgood]

Ayee! What were your thoughts on Vinoski? Do a bunch of production work there. Fun place!

[@emlix1]

Any friend of Stewart's is a friend of mine. Wish I could show you my Tama set up, but it's not as good as yours.

[@NotMyWar]

I would love to have that snare but nobody wants to come off with one haha.

[@stantonmooremusic]

Memphis Drum Shop usually has them in stock kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXupn318iK1roc0 They also have the new raw titanium version with triple flange hoops. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmO3mX2fnKqYiJo

[@NotMyWar]

@@stantonmooremusic thank you Mr. Moore! I will shoot on down to Tennessee and pick one up when I can.

[@markbra]

Does the kit sound different at night outside,after being out in the sun ?

[@stantonmooremusic]

Sometimes, it depends on how hot hot it is, how long there is direct sunlight vs. shade and humidity. But you get it as close as you can and then roll with it! 👊🏼

[@NikkLiberos]

2:30 are you really telling me that people don’t know the DB-90?

[@stantonmooremusic]

Apparently so… I get a lot of questions about it. They’re usually, “what metronome is that you’re using” or “what is that to your left of your hi-hat”. People usually don’t have a close up view of it though, maybe more people can recognize it when they can see it.

[@hapadusky]

Thanks for sharing, Stanton. What is the closest to your 15” hats in the current Zildjian line up? Do you switch up hats for your different bands?

[@stantonmooremusic]

Michael, I would say the 15 inch Kerope hats are the closest to what I’m playing in this video. I have some of the 15 Keropes and they are killer! I usually use the same hats for every situation I’m playing in, including piano trio or loud funk. I may have a couple pairs so I can leave some at the studio, some on the road and some for local gigs, but I like to find personal cymbals that will fit all of that situations I’m playing so that I always sound like me no matter what I’m playing. I hope that helps.

[@hapadusky]

@@stantonmooremusic very helpful, thank you! And that all makes sense about consistency.

[@EarthtonesCymbals]

Relax.

[@jktunney]

is he saying he uses the metronome just to count in... probs hard to turn it off once you're in the middle of a tune... but I'm guessing he plays with it once he's turned it on

[@JulianFernandez]

Are u using the click for counting off tunes or playing the whole show to a click? Thanks!

[@stantonmooremusic]

It depends on the tune, but for some of the vocal tunes I let it ride through out the whole tune. Some tunes the bass player or keyboard player will start the tune and I’ll go with what they set up.

[@JulianFernandez]

@@stantonmooremusic Makes sense. Thanks so much.

[@226jimbo]

Head? Remo coated Ambassadors.. and Powerstroke3??

[@TheDerringersOttawa]

Great video, but what about your heads and mics? And what kind of in-ears are you using ?

[@stantonmooremusic]

Good catch! I’ll have to go over all that if I do another tour of the kit. I may do one from the studio. I’m using all Audix mics. We just recently started using D6’s on my floor toms. We are using D6’s on the bass drums. An I5 on the snare. I’m using coated Remo ambassadors on the mini timbales, the 12 inch tom and the snare. Coated emperors on the pandeiros and floor toms. Clear ambassadors on the resonant sides of the toms. Coated power stroke 3’s on the bass drums. I mic the 20 with a Kelly Shu mounted inside the drum. I mic the 26 outside on the batter head. That way I don’t need holes in front of either front bass drum head. I am using fiberskyn Gretsch logo heads the fronts of the bass drums. Thanks for your interest! 👊🏼

[@michaellowe17]

@@stantonmooremusic nine or ten years ago you used my 81 Gretsch Drop-G Gretsch kit for a master class in Pittsburgh. Your head setup was the same then. I loved watching you tune and learned a lot. I've been using what I learned that day ever since. When I bought a new Gretsch USA Custom shell bank in 2019/2020 I installed Ambassadors over Ambassadors on the toms and Emperors over Ambassadors on the floor toms before I ever put a stick to a drum. I play a Gretsch Stanton Moore signature snare. I really want to pick up one of your Dunnett Titanium snares when I can. Thank you for your kindness when we met and your inspiration these many years.

[@stantonmooremusic]

@@michaellowe17 thank you for the kind words and for your ongoing support! It means a lot! 🙏🏼 I hope to get back to the Pittsburg area in person soon. 👊🏼

[@rodneyvandenoever]

Less does not apply to Stanton Mo(o)re!

[@troyelliott390]

👊

[@bryandrums32]

God love ya

[@unclemonster48]

Can’t wait for the lunar crash in production. Saving my pennies as we speak.

[@ntrakit6]

Yea I love seeing artist play stuff that isn’t out yet. Did he call the cymbal next to his ride a “pang”? Also Russ Miller has somewhat of a newer video out with a few cymbals in his setup I haven’t seen before but hope they put into production.

[@stantonmooremusic]

Very cool! I can’t wait to get it out there!

[@musshwins412]

When are you going to design a signature Gretsch snare?

[@stantonmooremusic]

I had one a few years ago. We’ve been discussing the possibility of doing another. Not sure when though…

[@musshwins412]

@@stantonmooremusic thanks for the heads up. I will research the snare and the metronome as a part of your touring kit is such a good idea.

[@TheSalPic]

Raise your hand if you use a pandeiro too 🤚

[@camrocks9764]

what throne?

[@padraigtansey]

Hay man you forgot to mention your biggest fan behind you, what you using.

[@stantonmooremusic]

Good catch! That’s a blower fan, I think it’s a Lasko. Something like this… www.vortoutlet.com/shop/lasko-u15610-pro-performance-pivoting-utility-fan It is SUPER helpful! 👊🏼

[@anthonyn1312]

Why did you switch from Sabian cymbals to Zildjian Cymbals?

[@musshwins412]

$$$$$$$$

[@stantonmooremusic]

I felt like Zildjian is the right fit for the rest of my career. I’m impressed with what they’re planning to do in the future in education and cymbal designs. I’ve always loved old K’s and I feel like the Keropes have gotten very close to that vibe and will continue to get closer. It had nothing to do with monetary concerns as suggested by @Mussh Wins

[@j.kellybrown8600]

Free cymbals. Hello?

[@kurtpatterson1296]

In my 50 year experience as a Zildjian cymbal user tells me this.The Zildjian's seem to be more durable than the Sabians.Just my opinion from meeting and talking to Sabian cymbal owners vs Sabian owners.

[@garydonnelly5568]

@@j.kellybrown8600 I don't think any manufacturer is giving out free stuff like many are lead to believe. The artist/brand relationship has more to do with what they can do for each other in terms of marketing and education and, of course developing new instruments (Lunar Crash). I'm sure Stanton has had numerous consultations with Paul Francis and others regarding his likes and dislikes in the design process and while he might get a freebie out of the prototypes and a final product, they are most likely not just handing out free sets of cymbals to every one of their endorsees. They'd go out of business pretty fast. If Stanton is like most players I know, he's got several sets of cymbals for different applications and he's probably getting the standard artist discount, but certainly not comped. That practice died long ago with Buddy. Oh, I'm also sure that Zildjian helps book its artists for clinics, master classes and other appearances. Those are additional sources of income/revenue/advertising for both the artist and the brand. It's all about win/win situations.

[@TempoDrift1480]

Imagine being next to those drums with him banging on that ride like that... I'd have to ask him to please stop doing that.

[@stantonmooremusic]

Highest energy part of an outdoor gig with a high energy band. Don’t worry, I don’t play like that all the time. 👍🏼🥁👊🏼

[@MartinMooreMusic]

100% on the comment about the Boss metronome. Same!