Hey, I'm new here. I'm a drummer playing for about 4 1/2 years now, I have an "Amtrax" (no clue about it) with Dream Bliss (22") ride, (16") crash and 14" Sabian AAX hats, also a set a of chinese B20-alloy handmade 14" hihats for a darker sound if the Sabians are too bright for what I want. I currently have it set as a 4-piece with pinstripe heads, but am hoping for coated one-ply to replace them, most likely Evans or Aqaurian.
Influences are mostly Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, bit of Joe Morello, Bernhard Purdie etc., I'm skeptical of most pop drummers, though I like Steve Gadd and Vinnie, they very suitably for the genres, are incredibly musical and versatile.
My first performance for the HSC (I'm doing music 1, 2 and Extension, it's a bit of a pickle currently) will most likely be for Extension, playing drums to the "Overworld" theme, known as the Main theme from Super Mario, haha. I will try to be as stylistically appropriate as possible for it, but it has proven quite dificult thus far... haha.
Enough with my life story, haha. Any other drummers trying to go for a different approach? Most I have seen locally are in music one an playing the flat-dynamic, note-cramming, boring, unchanging "technical" solos, most likely Barker-inspired...