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Quite a few people are asking about your drum setup and especially your low snare positioning.

Could you talk about the origins of that and why that particular setup worked for you?

Yes. It evolved into that, not by choice.

I used to keep my snare pretty flat,

but then when I got into really, really wanting to wallop rim shots,

I mean, wallop, like taking a canoe paddle

and cracking somebody over the back of the head wallop.

Just to get that thud.

I only give the canoe paddle metaphor, not because I'm trying to project violence in any way.

It's like that sound you hear in the movie when somebody gets walloped over the back of the head with a canoe paddle.

I try to get that deeper and deeper and deeper rim shot with a very club-like stick

that was a marching stick in reverse to make it even more club-like, flipping it around like a

club. And then I have very, very long arms. And then it just, you could only get that sweet spot by slow.

Over time, I had to lower, make it on that deeper and deeper angle.

Or what would happen is you would, if you missed the sweet spot, you would get cracked like tennis elbow.

You know, if you, if you missed the sweet spot,

it would be like, hey, ouch, it would be like a chain reaction up your arm into your elbow,

like literally like tennis elbow. And so you had better get that angle to avoid an accident for the kind of wallop I was trying to get

out of my rim shots. That's how the angle developed. Tim is asking if we can ever expect a

Damon Chase solo album. I did a solo track for an anthology, an anthology of percussionists.

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