Holding Drum Sticks
Part of the Video Series How to Play the Drums
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Holding Drum Sticks
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.
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.
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Expert: Chris Hynes has been playing the drums for over 10 years. He is currently the drummer for the up-and-coming band What We Know. Read More
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