Fix Your Weak Drumming Hand in 22 Days (GUARANTEED!)
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_______________ Fix Your Weak Drumming Hand in 22 Days (GUARANTEED!)
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Your weak drumming hand can be a real pain to deal with. I get asked to make drum lessons for the issue all of the time. This quick drum tutorial gives you a program for your weak drum hand. 6 exercises, less than 13 minutes a day, for 22 days.
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Hats:
16" EFX Crash on top
16" K Light Top Hat on bottom
18" Kerope Crash
22" K Custom Dark Complex Ride
22" Renaissance Ride
Drums:
Tama Starclassic Bubinga with Tiger Wood finish
Sticks:
Vic Firth 5A
Drumheads:
Aquarian
Classic Clear on toms and snare resonant
Response 2 on toms batter
Hi-Velocity on snare batter
Regularor (Ebony) on kick resonant
Super Kick 10 on kick batter
Alclair In Ear Monitors
Earthworks Microphones - Hudba
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Your weak drumming hand can be a real pain to deal with. This quick drum lesson gives you a program for your weak drum hand. 6 exercises, less than 13 minutes a day, for 22 days.
Leave a comment below and let me know your thoughts!
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Hi stephen, please react to michael alba and yosha band, thanks and God bless!
This sends the incorrect sheet music. I received 5 Bernard Purdie Drum Beats Every Drummer Should Know instead
I learned to twirl the drumsticks through my left hand and that actually helped my finger dexterity a lot. For guitar I also stretched my fingers out. Yes use your left hand first. When I started learning the drums, I treated my left hand as the main hand and I actually keep time better with my left now.
I taught myself to write with my weak hand. It really helps with the fine motor skills.
Yes! It’s a bitch to write weak handed
Hey man, I’m a 59 year old trying to get some of my chops back from the old days. I’ve been working this exercise for the last 4 nights. Feeling the burn and I could actually feel my finger starting to work with my hand again. Also working on isolating the last three fingers to improve touch and control. I’m not setting any world records, but I’m noticing a difference already and feeling more confident! Keep up the awesome lessons!
Drumeo who?(lol, they are pretty good too) This is the best drum tutorial channel on CZcams. Your tutorials feel like you are teaching me directly, not just a generic video.
Thanks Michael! Makes my day to hear that
He gets to the heart of drumming..you feel his passion.. excellent instructor
Nothing against Jared and the gang at Railroad Media, I was one of their supporters to build their new studio, but I’ve got to agree, I feel, as an advanced player, I learn far more here!!!
My campaign is called “push through the suck”. I feel like that’s the biggest challenge - allowing yourself to hear yourself not up to par and just keepin goin through it. Thanks for the video.
The best advice I ever received was from Dom Famularo: don't have a weak hand at all, instead switch to open-hand drumming.
I was a traditional cross-handed drummer for a few years until I followed Dom's advice, and it was the best change I ever made. Don't cross your hands, play with your left hand on the hi-hat, right on the snare. Stick with it and it's like having two right hands, plus you can hit any part of the kit you like with your right hand which massively opens up your playing (it's like having twice as much drumkit!). When I discovered the massive benefits, like the increase in power, relaxation, better posture, and ability to play more of the kit, I was genuinely angry that I'd been taught to play cross-handed at all. Now whenever I teach drums, I start students off open-hand on day one. We should leave cross-handed playing in the 20th century.
Hey, glad to see somebody else thinking this way...see my comment from a day ago. It’s amazing how there are huge discussions about traditional vs matched grips, but hardly anybody is discussing crossed vs open handed drumming. The traditional grip is pretty much on life support but cross handed is still a 99% favorite, for some weird reason.
Believe it or not, ive considered switching to open handed in the past. For all of the reasons you mention
@@StephenTaylorDrums Why not flirt with it for a week? Stuff like breakbeats or off-kilter jazz will be way too difficult to start off with, but try all your meat and potatoes rock beats open-handed. What happens when you go for a fill, or hit a crash? What happens to the sound of your backbeat? It's all very interesting stuff to work out and re-coordinate.
FYI: most of the conversion process is done *away* from the kit, tapping your fingers when you're bored at church. That's where you really learn to re-coordinate. A friend of mine has converted as well, and it wasn't too painful for him.
@@johnknight9150 Absolutely right, especially when you have like three kits surrounding you like I have. Simon Phillips was my inspiration to teach myself open handed. When your kit is just as big on your left side as it is on the right you really don't have much choice but to relearn to drum the right way (open handed). I also wish that I never learned that cross handed method.
@@FrankPCarpi Simon Phillips, yeah, you've got taste. If you don't mind heavy metal, check out Gene Hoglan and the current drummer for Jinjer (anything from the last couple of years).
This is exactly what I needed, thanks Stephen, I enjoyed this lesson a lot
I'm a 34yr old drummer who started 2yrs ago so I'm trying to soak up all these technique exercises. I didn't realise you had a podcast, I just subscribed. Thank you for all the content! 🙂🤘🏼🥁
Good luck with learning at your age. I didn't start drumming until I was 29, and it takes a lot of dedication and practice. I envy these kids who are drumming at 5 years young. By the time they get to older age they're going to be mad drummers.
Truly Great advice! 👍🏻 It’s what I advise my students and something my drum teacher taught me right from the off also.... work the weak hand in practice and use more in everyday life. I am now good and comfortable at playing right or left lead.
I tried brushing my teeth with my left hand, and I swear I almost lost an eye...
Thaks sir ! You're a very cleaver and pacient person ! I'll pratice !
Great tips! Using the less used hand will build up the brain to hand connections.
Playing "Don't Stop Believing" correctly really helped my weak hand while gigging. Now I love switching between closed right and open left while playing.
Good stuff as always. Thanks dude
Killer exercise Stephen!!!!! It accomplishes many things IMO.
Mate, great exercise. Thank you. 👊
Awesome ! Thank you good sir
Thanks, man. I appreciate the time and effort you put into these lessons. Cheers from Taiwan.
You bet Andrew!
YOU ARE AWESOME. THANK YOU !!!
Hey Stephen, first, thanks for all the great videos. After many short attempts at learning drumming over the years I have finally decided (at the young age of 71!) to give it another shot and your lessons are going to be my go to resource for quite a while. I decided to take a radical approach to the weak hand problem, I uncrossed my hands. Now my weak hand is on the hats, working and burning. It is coming along fast, I am noticing progress in just two weeks. From way back in my life when I first remember watching drummers I have never understood that whole crossed hand deal. It makes as much sense to me as the traditional grip, which is zero for both. Both look unergonomic, limiting and, for me, both fail to answer a very important question: why do it that way? I am an engineer and energy efficiency is something I value. I did some research and there are many professional drummers who play open handed, so it looks very doable. I realize I will have to rework some sticking patterns, but that will just make me better understand the art and science of drumming. Comments, anyone?
Open handed is way better.. beginners just copy the cross hand when they see pros do it..but it limits you..open hand is more natural...if you give a child drumsticks. They will naturally play open handed...
We actually didn't start out on the kit as cross handed. The hihat was a later invention. And it was originally called a sock cymbal...because it was low and by the ankle to be played with the left foot. I believe the cross came when it was raised and started to become a more prominent role in the music. Then I think the crossing happened without much thought...and stuck. You are right. Open handed makes A LOT of sense.
Great exercise and it works better than I expected. Many thanks bro!
You bet!
Thank You!!
thanks a ton for this, i just injured my right wrist, so these left hand exercises are really gonna help me wait out the healing process! thanks!
I am definitely going to see how well I can swing it. It shouldn't be a big stretch from what I have to do anyway... I have a jumbo kit. Good luck working with it.
Thank you 😎
A simply THANKS for all the free content regarding drums to enable people to become better players!
You bet!
I almost get the feeling this lesson is a bit more about interdependence then strengthening the weak hand, but either way, much appreciated!!! My workout and strengthening has been from switching to open handed playing, but I’m going to give this a try!!!
very helpful!
Just what i needed to whip my left hand into shape!!!
Mr Taylor, when you said ( in another video )you used your middle finger as the fulcrum and kept your index finger sort of out of the way, I experimented. I was doing 16ths for 1 minute at 180bpm . Thanks to you it is up to 200 for 1 minute and silky smooth. .
Thank you Sir
Wow....exactly what i needed...uploaded..today....dude thank you so much for this
Glad it hit the spot!
Great video
I had just decided to not bother learning after refurbishing a tattered set of drums, which I love doing. I bought these for my grandson but have always wanted to learn drums. My left hand just won’t co-operate. Then I get this email , so there’s still hope.
I will get back to you in a few weeks. I still have my guitar.
Hi Stephen, first of all thanks for your work, I love to follow your videos, always very informative, funny and impeccably explained.
For the execution of the exercises, in general, do you recommend seeking the perfection of execution, perhaps penalizing the speed or instead do you recommend looking for the maximum speed that can be reached, perhaps penalizing the quality of the execution instead?
For these specific exercises what could be a sufficient execution speed?
I started playing some Dave Matthews open handed and I can say that switching hands does wonders!
Oh for sure. And those are some fun parts to work on for this specific goal
@@StephenTaylorDrums Thanks man! You're awesome!
Congrats! You just got a new student!
You can train the body to do ANYTHING in 20 days with discipline. Muscle memory can be taught in a day, but body acceptance is basic biomechanics. 20 days IS the magic number!
Definitely I have to improve my weekend...
holy Sh!t... What??? I'm a Guitarist and I recently discovered this channel, and until this moment I didn't know there were different ways to grip a dumstick.... Holy Crap I never knew drumming was so technical... French grip, German grip, rebound, whatever else he said... Mind officially blown
I used to live with a drummer and he showed me "how to hold a drum stick"... I didn't know there were different ways... now I wanna learn them. in fact, I think I wanna learn drums.
Great stuff here! Driving a manual shift car for 17 years also did wonders!! LOL!!
Hi @stephen taylor, I love your lesson I’m slowly coming back to drumming and it’s been very hard since the last time I played was more than 15 years ago.
I would appreciate if you make an outro for your videos since CZcams (GOOGLE ADS) always cut your video right before the end so we can’t watch your complete video without repeating it over and over again.
Love your works 🙏
Thanks
You bet my friend
Here’s a hand workout that I’d like your take on. Really it is more a hand motion, independence deal. Play swung shuffle in one hand & straight eights in the other. Switch both left & right hands. You have two time feels playing over or under each other depending on accents & dynamics of each hand. You will here & feel the possibilities in theses motions. I dig it because it’s funny sounding. Rhythmic dissonance! Guaranteed to put a grin on your face.
Where has this been my whole life?!
There are 2 aspects to fixing the weak hand. There are a million exercises you can do to strengthen the arm, wrist and fingers. But if your GRIP is wrong, it’s all irrelevant. I speak from experience. I did every exercise there is, and got nowhere, because my grip was the problem. That needs to be addressed first.
Righteous
I wanna get into doing this like to improve my right hand even more so how long should I do each exercise per day and what bpm do I start with on day 1 and how much do I increase per day?
Only the day six and I already feel stronger 😤😤👍👍
I'm left handed and I been using my right hand (weak hand) more now and I've seen some big improvements
Funny how just using it more improves it
@@StephenTaylorDrums ye I was practicing rudiments as well and using it always and that has helped it's not strong like my left hand but it's much stronger than it used to be
Its totally works!
I couldnt play 8th notes more than 140 bpm
Its my 6th day doing these exercises and i can already play till 166 bpm!
How are you doing as today?
From what I’ve found when I started strengthening my left hand is that your really not strengthening your hand, your just wearing it out so you can find the flaw in your technique and you just have to learn how to copy your strong hands technique on the other hand
Hey Stephen! I love the videos of artists top beats, can you do more?
Yep, I'll have more of those coming soon
Stephen Taylor sounds good!
Stephen Taylor can you do some on derren king?
Ouch. I have been doing this for just about a week now. It took me some time to get the rhythm of all of them and my poor left arm is so tired the next day I can hardly do any other practice. The hand simply cannot keep up with even simple exercises.
At least I can watch my left hand and pick out the weak parts. I discovered I kept my left elbow in tighter than my right. Next I noticed that going to the toms I was reaching straight whereas I needed to hold my elbow up more to keep a good hand position.
Tough being a beginner and solo!
That’s great for us old guys - old bones. Mooches Graces
Great video. Haven't recieved sheet music :[
I have a very strange issue, I am neither a pure rightie or leftie. When I started primary school I was writing with my left hand but the teacher forced me to write with right hand and I learned to write with right hand. Now I am doing some activities with right hand and some activities with left hand( like playing hoops I shoot with my left) . As for drumming I play like a normal rightie but my weak hand is my right hand. I tried to switch using right hand on snare and left on HH but I didnt feel comfortable. Has anyone experienced this? Do you have suggestions?
Vic Firth 5A! I have the same at the moment, before I had Josh Dun's sticks, but they are too thick, Vic's are better, lighter.
It seems and feels like my left hand is getting worse at playing drums everyday I end up getting that butterfly tingly tickle feeling in my left
I'm left handed but luckily I feel comfortable playing a right handed kit and play crossed handed but I need more speed for my kick pedal and to play more faster
I have had to play buckets and a practice pad and backpacks for cymbals for almost a year waiting to get my kit 😞 I can play eyeless and disasterpice by slipknot though
I love the dedication!
What tempo is that on the metronome in your video?
Tried wiping with my left hand and somehow ended up with poop on the back of my head.
As we know, Jimi Hendrix was a left handed player. When he went to school, they made him write right handed.
I still have to work to on you Hand technique 101 course, do you think I can tack this on to it for daily practice? I'm really trying to learn open handed playing, crossing over aggravates injuries in my right arm
Open handed is fantastic. And sure, you can work them together as long as it's not too much material
this would help you to play the rock n roll intro fluently
lmao
But seriously thank you
Great Lesson
I always have had a problem with counting
Finally got around to doing this REALLY GREAT workout and experiencing awesome results!! I'm curious, why 22 days? Why not 30 days or 15 days. I could give you my answer..
What's your answer ;^)
Legend's: practices makes man perfect,
Me: still can't fix weak hand by practicing, " and that's why we came here to fix it.
Should I increase the tempo by 1 or 2 bpm a day as in the 30 days to better singles programme or play at the same tempo every day?
Yep!
Thanks for answering!😄
idk why but even tho my right hand is more experienced but my left hand is more superior on practicing like double strokes, paradiddle and etc...
Is that a tama starphonic snare I see?
The major rudiments that really helped my weak hand is the Triple Stroke roll.
Yes..that's a great rudiment for doing as you describe..also it will make your doubles better..5 mins per day on triple stroke...do it with bounce and also with just wrist.to strengthen other rudiments..bounce for speed...wrist for power .. especially if use German grip
I think paradiddles are good too
can the same come for weak foot
I did paradiddles with double bass when I was younger and that really helped.
Yeah, I started brushing my teeth with my left foot and that really helped
@@PigJuicer you my man are hilarious😂
Great stuff to start with but don't be disappointed or discouraged if you find that it takes more time, work & exercises to sort out your weak hand. That has been my experience.
Hey Stephen, where did you get the "Ozark inspired" drum T-Shirt?
Actually, I had these printed up well before the Ozark show had that logo done lol. Im considering doing another run of them soon
@@StephenTaylorDrums I would buy one in a NY minute. I bought the course that you linked in this video. I think you are an excellent teacher. Thank you.
Thanks Gregory, I truly appreciate that
Check out Luke Holland and do a reaction video for Tendinitis please? We want your feedback.
I was born left-handed but I played the drums right-handed. Meaning that my strong hand is my left on the snare. So how would these exercises help me if my left hand is already strong?
That's why I called in "weak hand" and not "left hand". Do them with your right hand for the same benefit
I here some people say don't lift weights when training your week hand (or both for that matter) as it can mess with the response etc...any truth to that?
Nope. I lift 4 times a week and have since my teens
@@StephenTaylorDrums Me too (well 1 time a week)...now i'm officially out of excuses!
Hi Sthepen.
I desided to go all in for a day. Trye to use my week hand. I stop when i tryed to shave my face.....! 🩸🩸😁😂
/J
Ha!
What size and model of K Constantinople is your Ride?
That's a 22" Renaissance. One of my fav cymbals that I own
Stephen Taylor Love the sound of both the 20” & 22” Renaissance! I just ordered a 20” K Con medium ride.
I love the sound of the 20 Philly Joe Jones K Con, but I buy from my local store up here in Winnipeg,Canada.For those that don’t know, the Philly Joe Jones K Constantinople Ride is an exclusive model that is only sold through Memphis Drum Shop. John Riley told me the closest K Con ride in sound to the Philly Joe Jones ride is 20" a K Con Medium.
I will try these since my weak hand is dismal. However that second exercise is confusing. You do not actually show how your "triplets" flow into the next measure even though you say it changes what beat the accent is on during the second measure.
Uh, yeah ... what? I just count it as sixteenths. I am exercising my hand, not trying to conform it to a modified twist in the beat. That just does it more in a slow-slow-slow-fast rhythm
P.S. I also count it one-ah-and-ah rather than one-ee-and-ah since that makes it sound like a squeak in the pedal.
First!
Hey Stephen! I’ve been drumming for about two years and I think your videos are great! Rock on! 🙋🏼♀️
Thank you!
could I do these on a practice pad? I have a practice pad but no drum kit... Long story...
Absolutely
@@StephenTaylorDrums man keep up the great work, I’m addicted to you videos.
I signed up for the PDF. Are you going to send it to me?
Hey Richard...if you didn't receive the pdf booklet, email help@stephensdrumshed.com and let Grant know what you requested. We'll get that to you asap. Check your spam folder as well
I write with left hand, but I play drums as a right handed. The result is that I have two weak hands 😂
I’m left-handed but i play right-handed
I like to play drums but I have no drums :(
I hope this won't frustrate me like my diet :D
Second
Been carrying wallet and phone in left pocket for years to help get the left side active.
They don't call me spaghetti arms for no reason
I thought you were just going to giveaway the "weak hand bootcamp" for free...lol. I paid $7 to add it to "Ghostnote mastery", Firestompers, PuddleJumpers, ect. Now I can't remember if those last 3 that you show are in there...🤔???
Theyre not...all new exercises
I'm almost 50 and really learned everything backwards. I bought these 3 books about a month ago and started working through the Stick Control book. Just going through pages 5 through 7 with a metronome and putting the kick on 1 and 3 and the hats on 2 and 4. It is ABSOLUTELY CRAZY to me how much I am improving after being stuck for so long. I wish I had taken this advice a long time ago, I thought it was a little beneath my skill set...I WAS SO WRONG! (Thank you for recommending these 3 books Stephen! 🥁🔥) *Pictures of Stick Control, Syncopation, and New Breed wouldn't upload to comments section*
Im right handed but my weak hand is my right hand😭
I’m a left handed right hand player and my left hand is the weaker one lol
Same. I do everything left handed. Left hand is Weeeeeaaaak.
you don't need to change your teeth brushing routine... just start all your lessons with your off/weaker limb, hand /foot.
good luck, it's hard to start the one, with my left /off hand, left foot/ hand. relax, start slowly, purposefull strokes.
First
What up Marc
"PLS REACT TO MICHAEL ALBA AND YOSHA BAND."
So after doing these exercises, we just might be ready to advance to what this guy does, which is play with only his left hand because he has no choice, he has no right arm: m.czcams.com/video/j25C1oDFP6w/video.html. That’s right, he taught himself to play with only his left hand because he lost his right arm in an accident. He had to fix his weak hand, he no choice. Now knowing about this guy, you gotta ask yourself a question, do you still have an excuse to complain about your weak hand? Well, do you, punk?