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Parts of a Drum Set
Drumming Posture
Holding Drum Sticks
Drumming Form
Techniques for Playing the Snare Drum
Techniques for Playing the Bass Drum
Techniques for Playing the Cymbals on Drums
Drum Crossover Technique
Cymbal Transitions for Drums
How to Play a Drum Roll
Transition Drum Fills
Song Structure for Drummers
How to Play Rotary Toms
How to Play Double Bass Drums
Drumming Performance Demonstration
Summary: Learn the correct way to hold your drum sticks in this free online video music lesson on how to play the drums for beginners.
Chris Hynes has been playing the drums for over 10 years and has played with numerous artists. He is currently the drummer for the up-and-coming band What We Know.read more
"Hi my name’s Chris and now we are going to talk about how to hold your sticks, okay. Now then when you are holding your sticks it is very important you want to make sort of a V on your Snare Drum and we want to be relaxed, okay. Kind of make them like they are flowing, if you will, okay. Now then, we’re going to hold them at an angle, make sure they are not parallel, make a V and be relaxed. Okay, this allows us to have more smoother rolls and allows us to dictate what we are going to play a lot easier. Now then, when holding your sticks make sure you thumbs are not on top, okay. What this does is, this creates tension between your thumb and resistance. By doing this we cannot hit the drum as accurately and what this does is just limits us, okay. We want to create it where we have sort of a pendulum so we have more room to function and more room to flow, okay. Now then with traditional style drumming a lot of jazz drummers use this; I don’t dibble dabble in this much because I’m not a jazz drummer but this is how you properly hold a drumstick when drumming in jazz style. And this is how you hold the drumsticks when you are rock drummer style, okay."
eHow Article: Holding Drum Sticks
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Comments
oldestswinger said
on 8/2/2008 Just another note, leaving your fingers off your stick creates tension in the palm and is just plain wrong. M-kay. Check out Jojo Mayers DVD for actual expert information.
evuser11176 said
on 8/2/2008 Just a note, as you said your not a Jazz player and may not know this but Match grip thumbs up is the French style of match grip and used often when playing cymbals for finese. Traditional grip the stick rests on the ring finger not the middle finger and is played with the left hand if you are righthanded.