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Video Guitar Lessons
Step-by-Step Online
Lessons Learning Guitar
Was Never So Easy
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Mark Chipello is the drummer for singer and song writer Tyrone Wells. There are two ways you can hold your drum sticks. The first way is called the match grip because your hands are matched with each other. The second style of holding your drum sticks is called the traditional style. The traditional style originated from the Civil War when snares were carried around with a sling on their shoulders. If they were to play match grip, the drum would kill their shoulders. Usually the grip doesn't make a big difference when you play drums; its just something for style.
Transcription
hey my name is mark Chipello and I’m going to speak with you on playing the drums. I have only one drum with me right now because I want to talk about the fundamentals because a lot of people get excited to play drum set and they go out to guitar center and they buy a drum kit and they start hitting a lot of stuff and making a lot of noise. But maybe they don’t know what they are doing. So this is not the exciting glamorous part where I hit a million drums but this is the basics that will help you do it really well down the road. So the basic thing is holding the sticks. There are two grips. The one that you see the most with rock drummers is the match grip because your hands are matched and there is another one that’s called the traditional grip where the left hand looks kind of funny like this. That’s used more in jazz and other styles in drumming. It was actually started because in the civil war, people would wear a sling on their shoulder so the drum head was on an angle like this and if you played the drums like this then their shoulder would kill you so they flipped the grip over so they can rest on the drum head. But on a flat drum head it doesn’t make sense because you’re at a disadvantage. So you see a lot more match grip opposed to traditional grip. It’s kind of a style thing you can choose if you want to do but I think physiologically the match grip makes more sense. So I’m going to show you how you can hold the sticks with the match grip. So the first thing is the fulcrum. It’s a pivot point its going to involve your thumb and your index finger. So this is where the stick is going to pivot back and forth from. So the general concept is that your fulcrum is going to be on the bottom third. So I’m going to get my fulcrum and then wrap my hands around the sticks. And then im turning them over like this so the sticks are a straight extension of my arm. I’m not at a weird angle like that or that. I bring my sticks all the way out and bring my elbows in at a comfortable position you’re at a good starting point. So review that. We have the fulcrum here and the fingers are going to rest on so the finger prints are all along the sticks here and I’m nice and relax. You want to be comfortable when you play. That’s our starting point. It’s about at a 30 degree angle. So that’s the match grip. If you’re going to do a traditional grip. Your right hand is all the same and the left hand is going to be a little bit different. So I start like this, I’m going to put my hand and split it between my fingers and I’m taking my thumb and connect it to my index finger. The fulcrum is a sideways fulcrum. It’s going to sit right here on my ring finger and I’m going to rest my middle finger. Its kind of like opening a door that’s how your hand should be like. You’re going to see this a lot in jazz and marching band that’s where I learned it.
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2008-05-14
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