How to play relaxed/Hand Technique 101
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- I have received lots of questions in relation to my CZcams videos, the most common one being "how do you play so relaxed". This video demonstrates what I consider proper hand technique and hand grip. I also demonstrate how to improve your finger control.
- Hudba
Dude.. how can u teach so clearly and play so well at the same time.. Thanks for this!
Very glad I came across Rick, been playing drums unofficially for over 50 years and he's answering a lot of questions I wish I had answers for when I started.
Omg! This is the clearest and best description of the Trad grip I've heard in 30plus years of drumming. I wish you lived in the Bay Area I would pay all the money in the world to study with you.
Rick, you have saved my issue with redesigning my technique by watching to many other styles when I was already on this path. Now I will truly move forward. Thanks is an understatement. Please keep doing what you do for the rest of us. It's great!
I wish I knew this when I was 12 !! But never too late to adjust . Thank you so much , I find hand technique is the least discussed in most drum books or online media 👍🏼
Your technique is like magic, looks like your drop the sticks on the pad and they start playing like if we re in a Harry Potter movie. 10:44 Weckl demonstrates well the one hand roll with the traditional left hand.
I have been trying to gain better control for over a year now. I quit playing for years and started again and it’s been difficult. I was, unfortunately, not taught this when I was young. All wrist and rebound. No fingers. In fact, my first instructor did not really understand Joe Morellos technique and bad talked it as “chicken scratch”. ?? Craziness! Thank you for this simple demonstration! You’re a wonderful teacher!
It"s hilarious when he explains what not to do and is still perfect. Thanks
Your the best man. I'm in college and you're more of my teacher than anyone else ahahaha
I love your double stroke roll, so clean and smooth! I’m glad I found your channel.
Amazing video on technique! Thank you!
This is the first video that I watch and don't feel overwhelmed and wanting to quit (like watching Peter Erskine or dannis Chambers and many more...). It actually motivated me to keep practicing my traditional grip ( have the middle finger always OFF the stick) and rudiments. Thanks.
That was very helpful. thank you so much!
You're a great teacher, Rick. Thank you. Subscribed.
This lesson is going to help me tremendously, thank you!
Congratulations. First class drumming instruction !!!
Incredible! Thank you!
The best video on the technique ... amazing job much love
...excellent teaching!.. a real master of drumming technnique!...
Amazing video! Very condensed and to the point, thanks a lot!
Really sweet demonstration of the thumb technique. Great videos! Thanks
Phenomenal video !! THANKS so much for sharing !
Thank you for posting this video. It is extremely helpful!
You so relaxed!!! Thanx a lot!!!!!!
Super helpful, thank you. It looks easy, and the principle seems simple, but I can't really get it going too well. But... I have the right ideas to practice with!
Great video on the technique . Awesome. Thanks!
Very good tips in here, especially teaching beginners to play with fingers before the wrist
Excellent job. Thank you!
wow , thanks for the info.I love the way you explain it.
DANG... i really like your accents on your double stroke rolls.. U really have some amazing exercises...
to explain the smoothness .. and thanks for showing the Moeller whipping motion .. too....
Excellent Video Rick, you are a great teacher! Thanks so much! :-)
Beautiful. Very inspiring. Thank you
Thank you so much for your videos . I find them so well explained and demonstrated . You answer a lot of real questions and your techniques are just so powerful . Maybe most of us have teachers already but you are my techniques one for sure ,you just confirm reassure and teach me sooo well
Thanks for the lesson very well done awesome technique.Good teacher.
I've been trying for 5 years now to learn how to strike the drum. I'd love to take a lesson from you!!!!!
FANTASTIC & CLEAR EXPLANATION TNX SIR
Very Nice Lesson!
Excellent, wish I'd met you in my youth.
Outstanding hand technique
Incredible technique.
Very good lesson, thank you!
Great lesson.... Everything try convey to my own students
This is a great video. Thank you for sharing.
kind n detailed explanation! it helped me a lot. thanks!
Terrific video, Rick!
Thanks Ed
Great video thanks very in depth
you are the best!!!! thanks!!!!
Thank you very much for this information. 💯
am so much happy for this videos you have teach me so many thing and i want to know more thank you so much for this lesson am from NIGERIAN
Woww!! Excellent
Excellent!!
He is sooooo good.
Excellent!
Thank you for sharing your superb talent & teaching skills.
Your welcome Louis. Thanks for watching
Sir i like your way explaining this lesson.I had struggled playing drums without relaxation all these years..I hope this is a good start for me to redo my lessons and adjust myself from stiff to relax..Thanks.
Greetings from Malaysia,Southeast Asia
It helps me a lot! thanks..
Hi Rick, would be nice if you could do a detailed video on rolls, The Buzz or Closed roll especially . The technique involved and choice of subdivision
within different tempos and recommend som good books on this subject. Also, tuning and adjustment of snares, where to play on the snare drum, which hand to start roll on, various approaches both orchestral and within jazz. In duple and triple time, in various time signatures etc.
Very good. Thanks
My god this is the best video
By my calculations his double strokes are going at about 226 ticks per minute for each hand. I can't get beyond 190. I can't get how it's even possible to do what he does. It's truly astonishing.
superb.
In minute 4:06 AMAZING double stroke roll whit accent!!!! Oh my god!!!
Great Hands
THIS GUY IS FANTASTIC. The one thing I keep waiting for an instructor to point out, is that in a way controlling the rebound is like dribbling a basketball. You find the power in the recoil between the ball and the floor, you relax your hand and wrist to acommodate that, and you find the groove.
Jim kilpatrick who’s an amazing pipe band snare drummer uses the same technique
Hello Mr.DIOR,
I just discovred your precious videos. They are so helpful.
I just have a question about left hand , how we can start the motion with the two fingers? i can't keep the stick on my hand.
Thanks a lot its the best lesson i've seen on youtube.
Rick thanks for the lesson. I’m a relative beginner at drumming. My sticks travel and spin in my grip when I play. How do I solve this issue? Does that solve over time?? ... with a tighter grip?... and sacrifice some speed and quickness? Please help. Thank you for the vid.
I really enjoyed your videos. I've been playing (on and off) for more than 60 years on drum kits and in pipe bands. Still, I've learned a great deal from your stuff. I appreciate you doing this for us drummers who didn't have a great teacher. Have you ever considered using a mirror to made your clips? That would put your left hand on the same side as your student's left hand. Just a thought. Keep up the great work.
Hi Roland
That's a neat idea. Unfortunately that would reek havoc on the lighting which is already suspect. When I teach I face my students so this gives you the same idea of what they see.
Thanks for watching.
Holy Crap you’ve got fine technique.,, Holy Crap.
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came here for the lesson, now I want that practice pad.
This is great. I have always pretty much used matched grip. I have recently focused on my orthodox grip and now have a little sore on my left hand ring finger where the stick bounces! Should I continuer or stop for a bit or what?
What pad are you using on this video and where can I purchase one, if still available?
Great video and thank you. At the end you mention that it's much more difficult to play fast with your left hand, and that you can do all kinds of interesting and faster one handed playing with your right hand. So I guess I don't really understand why you wouldn't hold the stick the same way with the left hand if it's at a disadvantage holding it differently?
Hi Will
I also play lots of matched grip but if you are a right handed player your left hand will always be weaker. It varies from player to player but it's just the human condition.
My point was that the traditional grip takes advantage of the weak hand since there are less fingers on the stick and the whipping motion is easier to do with a weak handed traditional grip. I guess you would have to grow up playing traditional grip to feel the difference. Either way both grips are essential to learn and both are useful to me for different things.
Thanks
Rick
Enjoying ur videos so much, Thank you Thank you 🙏 Howie
Thanks for the video Rick. I have a question re what you talk about toward the end. Am I right in thinking that you BEGIN with the push stroke, ie. the push stroke is on the first of the four sixteenths? I've tried both ways - to me it's more natural to use the push stroke as a lead in to the first down stroke of the four, in which case the whole thing has more of a 'down feel'. The other way it has an 'up' or off beat feel, if you know what I mean, which is more difficult to get used to, but maybe that is the key - going against the grain? I've been trying to achieve this with the left hand, on the snare, which is especially tricky if your right hand on the ride is keeping eighths, but with the push stroke as a lead in and therefore a down feel. I guess both can work. I think of the way Gary Novak works the left hand. Hope this makes sense.
Hi Ashley
You can start with either stroke in either direction. Whatever works for you. I have had students do it both ways.
Hi Rick! Amazing technique and exquisite instruction! What practice pad are you using?
That's an old quiet tone pad. Thanks
what do you recommend for the wrist development ? the free stroke before the fingers
work on the first two chapters of Joe Morello's Master Studies. Play the accents with your wrists and all of the other notes with your fingers.
What pad was used?
I got to spend some time with Joe Morello as well. Do you live in New Jersey too?
I went to high school in Edison NJ (JP Stephens) and then moved back to NYC
@@rickdior It is nice making your acquaintance. I grew up in Elmwood Park. Currently living in North Haledon. Your videos are done super well. Your knowledge and experience is vast. Do you have a website which one can contact you through? Best Regards, 🥁 Troy
Great video... Are you NJ based?
I am in Charlotte NC. I grew up in NYC/NJ
You have some serious skills. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I hear North Carolina is beautiful! I have a close friend who moved from NJ a few years back and now lives in Waxhaw NC. He has great things to say about NC.
Fred and Joe...what more to say...
what part of the world are you in and do you give pvt lessons
I am in the USA in Charlotte, North Carolina. I teach Skype lessons all over the world and privately if you live nearby. Thanks
The 8 thumb downers went to the practice room to play AC/DC