The French Upstroke on Snare Drum

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JOEL SIEGEL: Alright, the next stroke is called the upstroke. And as you can imagine, this is kind of the opposite of the downstroke. Instead of starting up and going down, you're going to start down and going up. This is really affiliated with the French stroke or the French grip, rather, that we discussed earlier. This is going to be when you're kinda trying to draw the sound out of the drum. This originated in classical percussion with timpani players where they're kinda the big kettle drums they're trying to draw the sound out of the drum. So, this is what your upstroke, French grip is going to look and sound like. You can see that this is a quiet stoke, so a lot of times, it'll be used for cymbal work for light or sometimes complex cymbal work. You are getting a lot of the subtleties you want in music like jazz and the quieter music like that.

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