• Biography

  Award winning musician Pete Lockett is one of the most versatile and prolific percussionists in the World. His percussive skills range from traditional Carnatic and Hindustani music of North and South India to traditional Japanese taiko drumming; from blues, funk and rock to classical, folk and ethnic and from Arabic to Electronic. Having worked in virtually every field of music conceivable both live and in the studio, his boundless talents have earned him a reputation as one of the most wanted percussionists in the world.

  Web: www.petelockett.com

• Kit bank setup

  Pete Lockett has put together some kits for all drummers longing for more percussion sounds! Pete is playing his sounds with sticks on the DrumIt Five kit. Only a little reverb is added for atmosphere.

  To use Pete's kits/sounds setup please follow these instructions:

  Copy the sound folders in the Pete Lockett percussion folder to the Perc folder of the DrumIt Five memory. and you will be able to play his sounds at these kit numbers below. You must also download the drumit.dkt file you find in the Pete Lockett percussion folder to make that happen. This drum kit bank is built up with the standard 100 factory kits besides these kits located from 40 to 46.

  Please note: Before you download and overwrite your own drumit.dkt file we strongly suggest you make a backup of your own drumkit file!

  Pete configured these kits with his percussion sounds which are mainly located on tom 1 and tom 2 and incorporate the rims. Please listen to Pete's explanations of the kit setup's on the MP3 files.

  #40 Req bendir combo

  • Bendir on floor tom / rack tom 2
  • Req on rack tom 1 and snare.
  • Bass drum low Udu

  #41 Doumbek kit

  • Darabouka on floor tom and rack tom 2

  #42 Lockett Ghatam

  • Ghatam on floor tom and rack tom 2
  • Kanjira on rack tom 1 ( Open on rim, slap on drum )

  #43 Wood Blox

  • Wood blocks on rack toms
  • Crasher on hihat
  • Crasher on cymb 2 ( tuned down )

  #44 Lockett Cajon

  • Cajon ( With jingle ) on floor tom and rack tom 2

  #45 Lockett Pandeiro

  • Pandiero on floor tom and rack tom 2.
  • Instead of doing an extra half open / muted open tone I have assigned the open tone also to the rim of the floor tom and made it a much shorter decay. This serves the same purpose as the muted open tone.

  #46 Lockett compelit

  • A compilation of sounds added with delay more or less for fun.
  Kit Bank: Download

Pete Lockett

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