I like to flip them.

i made up a visual last year. There was guard next to us and the sabres were stabbing our heads. the left cymbal moves up beside your head while the right goes down by your leg. you then "kick" the cymbal and flip it up it looks really cool and is fun to do if your bored

Cymbal toss!

My drumline has only two cymbal players so during some parts of the show and during our parade piece. We hold for the 3 snare drums which sounds nice exp. on this one part were the snares play sixteeths on both cymbal and their snare.

The main thing I was ever taught was it doesn't matter how many flips, chucks, tings, taps, tongs, slides, sizzles, slams, sucks, hats, or different kinds of crashes you do nor does it matter if you're doing back flips over the guard in supposed unison and then front flips rippled over the tubas, without ridiculously almost insanely blood curdling perfection, they all aren't sh!t. A line that has no visuals but maxes out their technique will look far more impressive than a dirty visual filled line. My instructor back in the day once told me, "Cymbals are by nature the most visual musical instrument on the field at any given time. We don't necessairly need to do a pit viper every 2 seconds, just the super-cleanliness of our basic technique is impressive enough because we're all vibing and hitting the same angles and the glare from all of your cyms pops at the same time and it's a beautiful thing."

A good example is Vanguard. Yeah they do some bomb a$$ visuals. None of which require very much more knowledge or skill (besides the pit viper) But their intensity and super-cleanliness put them one step above the competition. That's why my favorite visual is piss clean technique, you can't have any other visuals be badass w/o it.

Pimpin

well i tend to like todo handstands, sometimes a decent lil two person one hit. lol. also i think it is fun to spin them around your wrist it is cool. but it burns so much! ahhh

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get a nice little gust of wind and loose a limb... lol. it's happened. lol. but seriously i tried that once, threw it to hide and it came down really fast. it was scary



That's a double post my friend, and that's a no-go here on DLO. You've got 6 hours to edit your posts, so make sure you do it. Capisce?

My favorite thing to do on the cymbals is to hit them loud!

. . . wow