“If you put a four-year-old child behind a set of drums, the child would not cross over to play the hi-hat.”
Gary Chester in The New Breed, explaining why he plays with three hi-hats. It’s clever. And true—just this year I put a two-year-old behind a kit and he played everything on the left with his left hand and everything on the right with his right hand.
That said, I’m not going to play with three hi-hats. Being able to play with one hi-hat (or, at most, two) is one of the things that makes me feel more advanced than a four year old.
