Drumstick Grip for Playing High Hat & Snare Drum

Video Transcript

"All right, stick grip. Now this is another important aspect of the beginning to getting your sound that you really want. Now, stick grip, let's talk a little bit about stick grip on the ride symbol. Now there's a style called French grip, which is thumbs up. And if you're on the ride, you should have your thumbs up. All right, and now if you're on the snare, and you're coming out of the ride maybe to do a fill, you want to just slide your palm over and go to American grip, which is kind of your palms are down. So, that grip would be like this. With your palms down. And the hi hat would be almost--it's in between French, which is thumbs up, and American, which is thumbs down. It's somewhere along those lines, right around here. See how my thumb's a little bit up, but my palms are halfway down. It's right in between. And now, one more thing for going around the drums. You usually want to be palms down, going all around, all around the drums. That's more of an American style."