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Vic Firth American Classic Drumsticks - 5B, Black, 4 pairs

Hickory Drumsticks with Teardrop-shaped Tips, 16" Length, and 0.595" Diameter - Black, 4 pairs

Grab a Pack of Vic Firth Sticks

Vic Firth American Classic drumsticks are the choice of top players throughout the industry. Now, you can save big with this value pack, which includes four pairs of Vic Firth American Classic Drumsticks! From precision manufacturing and matching methods to its spellbinding range of products, Vic Firth offers quality you can count on. These Vic Firth American Classics are dried, formed, sanded, and finished in-house by Vic Firth’s wood experts. The company's wood teardrop-shaped tips deliver a rich, musical sound on cymbals, and their medium tapers have a great balanced feel in the hands. Sweetwater drummers feel that the 5B Vic Firth American Classics are a wonderfully versatile drumstick, able to handle heavier genres of music as well as softer styles when placed in the right hands.

Medium tapers balance power and speed

Drummers who play a range of musical styles will appreciate the tapered shaft of each Vic Firth American Classic 5B, which is balanced between the butt and tip for a great-feeling blend of flex and attack.

Teardrop tips offer a musical sound on cymbals

Vic Firth's renowned teardrop tips are revered by professional drummers everywhere for their musical definition on ride cymbals and hi-hats, which is neither too soft nor overpowering.

Crafted with care from select house-dried hickory

Every stick starts as an undried green square of select Southern US hickory, chosen for grain quality and appearance, before it's dried in controlled, specially modified kilns on-site and shaped into the dowels that become your Vic Firth American Classics. This process is just one of the reasons Sweetwater stands behind our Vic Firth drumsticks with confidence.

Mechanically certified straightness

Some drummers may remember the embarrassment of rolling their sticks across the glass counter of their local instrument store to check for straightness. You never have to suffer this indignity again when you buy Vic Firth American Classics. Sticks that don't meet Vic Firth's straightness tolerances when rolled across a conveyor are discarded.

Weight matched for an even response across the kit

Sticks in each perfect pair of Vic Firth American Classics are weighted within two grams of each other. This weight matching greatly reduces imbalances between the left and right hands, which is often felt when switching from traditional to open-handed technique or picking up sticks after a break.

Pitch matched for studio accuracy

Once sticks are sorted by weight, they're then matched by pitch, within a quarter-tone of each other, to promote an even attack, whatever hand you lead with. Because grain anomalies can cause multiple resonance peaks, any sticks that don’t produce a clear fundamental pitch are discarded. Ensuring a clear fundamental is especially important for studio and live close-miking situations, where the pitch characteristics of the sticks themselves can affect what the microphones capture.

Vic Firth American Classic Drumsticks Features:

One of the world’s leading drumsticks; trusted by pros onstage and in the studio
Wood teardrop-shaped tips offer rich, defined cymbal sounds
Medium tapers are balanced for power and speed
Matched by weight and pitch for consistency across the kit

Specification	Detail
Type	4-pair Drumstick Pack
Model	American Classic
Material	Hickory, Black Paint Finish
Size	5B
Length	16"
Diameter	0.595"
Taper	Medium
Tip Material	Wood
Tip Shape	Tear Drop

RETURN INFORMATION

We want you to be completely happy with your purchase from Sweetwater. If you are not satisfied with your product, you may return it for a refund of the purchase price within 30 days. If your purchase was eligible for Free Shipping, the shipping cost will be deducted from your credit or refund. Returns must be in the complete and original packaging with all accessories and complete documentation (Owner's Manual, warranty card, quick start guides, etc.), show no signs of wear or use, and include a Return Authorization number or be subject to a restocking fee.