eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.
Summary: In drumming, match-grip patterns can be practiced by alternating five strokes with each hand while coming down with the kick and hi-hat on each down beat. Play five strokes in match-grip patterns with tips from an experienced drummer in this free video on percussion instruments.
"All right, here we go. Now we're going to be doing the same, the same strokes, but we're going to be doing five in the right hand, and five in the left, all right. So, so now we're going to be keeping, you know, our sound the same, sound steady, and our feet and our high hat are going to be coming in on the downbeat of one, all right. And now, you can count it one or two ways; you can count either all five, one, two, three, four, five, you know, one, two, three, four, five, or you can count it, you could go one, two, three, one, two, or you could go one, two, one, two, three, but like I said, I like to just count it out five, because you get more of a straight ahead feel, and it's not as chopped and broken up. All right, so here we go, one, two, three, four. Right, there's five."