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Summary: Stick height and size are important considerations when playing the marching snare drums; learn more from our expert snare drummer in this free snare drum video music lesson.

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John Antonelli John Antonelli is most noted by his teaching reputation throughout North Carolina, Virginia and parts of Ohio. He has taught many high school and college perc... read more

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Drum Stick Height on a Marching Snare Drum

Hi! I’m John Antonelli on behalf of Expert Village. This video lesson is going to be discussing stick heights. Stick heights are very important in our drum line ensemble to make sure that we were all matching the same sound and the same height visually for the crowd. Now, I define stick heights in inches. This is inches from the drum. First off, we’re going to start on our ready to play position. If I want something played from this position, I call it one inch off of the drum. The next position up, I call three inches off of the drum. Now, how I do that is I make sure that I change my stick angle from being two fingers off to making my wrist parallel to the ground versus having that two finger angle to the drum. This is one inch. This is three inches. The next one that I tried to define is 12 inches. Now, that is having our stick 100% perpendicular to the ground. This is 12 inches. So, going up we will start at 1 then we make our wrist flat 3, then perpendicular to the ground for 12 inches. The next height I define is six inches. Easiest way to do this is to take dollar bill, stick it on the drum, and then match the very tip to the top of that dollar bill. I’ve got my one inch; I’ve got my wrist flat at three, and then I’ve got my six. Then I have my 12. The next height I define is finding six inches; finding 12 inches, and then splitting it. This is what I call 9 inches. Going up from the bottom, I’ve got my one inch height; my three inch height; my six inch height; my nine inch height, and my 12 inch height. Please check out our next video. We will be discussing tap accent control.

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