What is a Cocktail Drum?
A cocktail drum typically looks like a tall floor tom 14″ to 16″ diameter by 16″ to 25″ height on shell mounted legs. There are usually snares mounted underneath the top head for a “snare sound” and a modified pedal to strike the bottom head for a “bass drum sound”. They often have a shell mounted cymbal arm and occasionally a side mounted tom-tom or set of bongos for a very compact set up. There are also several variations which include single headed drums with or without snares, snare drums mounted directly attop a regular, small bass drum, a snare drum mounted to a floor-tom with the underneath bass drum beater, etc.
