How to Play Digs & Stirs on Drums

Video Transcript

"JOEL SIEGEL: There's one more element to brushes which is kind of unique. You're not going to be using the strokes so much with the sticks and the rods, although you can, and you should experiment if you like. But this is a stroke where you go down and much like a down stroke, you'll stay down but you won't actually even come off the head. You'll stay--you'll press into the head to keep that contact. The reason this is a common stroke in brushes is because of the next stroke that we're going to talk about which is usually what brushes are used for and that's what they often call stirring the soup. This is a continuous sound that you're creating by the contact of these metal whiskers against the coated drum head. The interplay between those two textures gives you a continuous sound. And this is what it sounds like."