Steve's Left Hand Techniques - Steve's Sessions
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- čas přidán 30. 12. 2022
- Steve Maxwell Sr. demonstrates a few of his traditional grip left hand techniques.
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You won't see a more competent drummer, or a more listenable and interesting and engaging presenter than Steve. I never let one of his videos slip by me.
Thanks so much for the kind words. Steve
Love your buttery smooth buzz rolls! Keep having fun, Steve!
Insanely good jazz drummer.
Very very humble.
You got some good hero's Steve!!!
-one of the finest - most musical drummers I've heard on YT
Check out Franco Dal Monego. He is amazingly musical!!! Steve is killer as well! 100% !!
This is very helpful! I am also a traditional grip player!
You offer up some key insights, and make it look so easy. A testament to how relaxed you are when you play. Thank you so much.
Gorgeous snare...
LOVE it Steve! This is how I learned to play! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!
Great vid. So much neat and useful information. I will incorporate some of this into my snare drum practice. Thanks so much.
So amazing 🔥 i luv it 🙌 could listen for hours 🥁 thanks so much for the insight 🙏
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Awesome playing in the solo!
Thanks Steve! Always love hearing you play. The Ludwig kit you built for me has a special place my heart. :)
Steve I always learn something new in your videos that hand technique is very important I'm a match grip player but I also started out traditional but I'll switch back and forth you always have some new knowledge and I love the way you can swing the beat thanks for sharing Happy New Year to you and everybody there
Everything Steve says is true. I started in '69. Master the rudiments, snare drum before starting on the drum set. Trad. grip is what was taught. Learning to read is paramount. Back then, if you played matched, you were called a garage band drummer!!
Brilliant stuff. Next...a twiddling tutorial please?
how about a comparison between vintage Rogers and new Rogers?
Sounding great steve.
Most of us would have continued with traditional grip, until Ringo came on the scene..
Hi Steve! Thanks for all you do for the community!! Steve Could please tell me what snare you use here? Thanks for answering toni from austria
Hi Anton. The snare is the matching 5.5x14 Craviotto maple snare. The entire kit is the second kit Johnny ever made. I have #1 as well, which is 13/167/22/5.5. This one is #2 and was made specially for me. 12/14/18/5.5. Love it!
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Enjoyed your video on left hand technique. I would like to know what would you call that top add-on piece on your snare drum that you used on this particular video demonstration. Thanks.
It’s a Quiet-Tone pad.
Bingo! Quiet Tone pad. This one just happened to come in with a bunch of hardware etc, and I grabbed it because it is an excellent tool for video or for practicing in general. It allows the sound of the snare to be heard, but “muffled” enough so as not to disturb.
Does this Sabian quiet tone practice pad have a 14" regular or mesh type drum head. Thanks
@@joecopa Steve’s using the 14” standard version. The mesh version has a black head.
I had to laugh when you said "master the instrument, which never happens." That a true statement though, nobody ever masters it. I've been playing for 50 years, and I was taught to use convention grip. But I eventually realized that conventional grip is a very handicapped way of playing the drums. What I mean by this is that you can't crash good that way, and you end up getting tangled up playing around the set, especially during a drum solo using your toms a lot. I realized several months ago while watching CZcams videos of Buddy and other top drums, that they all switched to matched grip during a big fill or solo that moved around the whole set, especially when using the toms. That was absolute proof to me that nobody should be using the old fashioned conventional grip anymore. Of course, I'm going to make some people mad by saying that, but go back and watch Buddy, Louis, Ed from the Tonight show, and probably most all jazz drummers, including yourself. I've seen you instantly switch to match grip when you need to move all over the set. It just happens, anybody who uses conventional grip almost always switches to match grip as their solo really starts moving around the set. Check it out by watching the old masters, you'll see. And Buddy hated match grip, but there he is using it a bunch.
I alternated with matched grip at times, because, as you say, it makes it a bit easier when traveling across the drums. (Especially if you play a larger kit with something like 3-4 rack toms and 2 floors). The traditional grip, for me personally, is the easiest way to control the left hand and seems very natural to me. Switching between that grip and matched is perfectly fine. As we always say, there’s no right or wrong. Whatever works is just fine.
Do you practice everyday?
Hi Larr, I don’t practice daily. Really, the only playing I have time for these days is the videos. I do maybe 2-3 of those each week, and I do them typically in one single take. So, I’m playing maybe 15-20 minutes per week. Once in awhile I will play for a few minutes on a kit that comes in to test it out, but that’s basically it these days. However, I will be doing a big band special event down the line a bit, which I am looking forward to. I am 70 years old and have been playing since I was 12, so there’s a lot of years of “playing/practice” burned into my muscle memory. But, I do very much advocate practicing. And, more than “technique” I suggest that players listen to how the drummer fits within the ensemble and the song. That is where you make the money to survive. There are many “chops monsters” but many of them can’t play in an ensemble. Bottom line, you need the technicals skills so that you can execute the job, which is to add value to the music and to support the artist.
Steve always tells you how he's not as good as the other guys, etc... but he's wrong