Which way is the best for gripping drum sticks?

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Sorry for the dumb thread I'm just a curious guitar player.

  • Traditional

    Votes: 9 13.6%

  • Common (Two Fists)

    Votes: 33 50.0%

  • Alternating between the two

    Votes: 22 33.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 3.0%
  • Total voters
    66
trad grip is better for snare rolls. with your thumb controlling one stick, you can regulate the tempo a little better. try it.

also it's not difficult to "flip the grip" from one to the other, giving you access to both in a split-second. and it looks cool--just practice.

and i don't remember anybody talking about playing with the butts--seemed to work for john bonham.

j dubb
 
it's all about feel and the type of music being played. Jazz drummers should play traditional. Metal drummers shouldn't. Therefore, I voted "alternate". Word.
 
Grip

I like this question because it brings out a lot of Info.
Matched or traditional?
I like switched grip.(don't know if their is such a thing it sounded cool ) :)
Seriously,I'm sure someone out there will differ but...................
I have to play matched because I'm learning mallet percussion.
Then on the other hand I like traditional on the kit playing Jazz.
I usually switch to matched for rock and back to tradit. for funk, latin ect...
I saw this one guy playing with his feet one time and thought that was pretty cool. :p
 
On the kit: matched grip.

I only played traditional grip when I was in drum & bugle corps.
 
F_cksia said:
as always, there is no best way. I haven't seen much traditional jazz players gripping in the "fist-way" and not any traditional gripping metaldrummer. It also depends on the setup of for example the snaredrum, some drummers like to bend it way to their body, and then you can only hit it properly the traditional way.
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Mark Zonder from Fates Warning and Warlord plays with a Traditional Grip, and he hits hard as hell.


Tim
 
Pahtcub said:
Yeah it's like the kid from Drumline playing in Megadeth, just wouldn't be cool.

Pat
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Any of the guys in drumline are probably better than the drummerin Megadeth. (and as a side note, I know the bass player from Megadeth - Jimmy McDonough - he lived here for years and used to play in a Skinhead band called Brutal Assault during the 80's, then he played in Iced Earth.)


Tim
 
Tim Brown said:
Any of the guys in drumline are probably better than the drummerin Megadeth. (and as a side note, I know the bass player from Megadeth - Jimmy McDonough - he lived here for years and used to play in a Skinhead band called Brutal Assault during the 80's, then he played in Iced Earth.)


Tim
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He's not in Megadeth anymore... :p
 
Tim Brown said:
Any of the guys in drumline are probably better than the drummerin Megadeth. (and as a side note, I know the bass player from Megadeth - Jimmy McDonough - he lived here for years and used to play in a Skinhead band called Brutal Assault during the 80's, then he played in Iced Earth.)


Tim
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I was in the same drumline as Chad Sexton from 311 waaaaay back in the day.
 
Tim Brown said:
Mark Zonder from Fates Warning and Warlord plays with a Traditional Grip, and he hits hard as hell.


Tim
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Mark Zonder owns a rehearsal studio that my old thrash metal band used for rehearsals (5 days a week). I had many sessions listening to Mark and the lead singer of Fates Warning became a big fan of ours and a good friend as well. They were convinced we were going to get signed. So was Rob Zombie! That guy was a crack up!
 
dawg2k5 said:
He's not in Megadeth anymore... :p
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I guess Dave must have given him the boot.


Jimmy's one of the best bass player's I've ever seen. I mean, the guy had chops like crazy when he was really young.


Tim
 
PhilGood said:
Mark Zonder owns a rehearsal studio that my old thrash metal band used for rehearsals (5 days a week). I had many sessions listening to Mark and the lead singer of Fates Warning became a big fan of ours and a good friend as well. They were convinced we were going to get signed. So was Rob Zombie! That guy was a crack up!
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I saw him and met him in the late 80's, and the guy just seemed like a genuinely nice guy - it was on his first tour with Fates Warning, and man - he had so much electronic gear it wasn't funny. He was one of the first metal players using electronics.


Tim
 
PhilGood said:
Mark Zonder owns a rehearsal studio that my old thrash metal band used for rehearsals (5 days a week). I had many sessions listening to Mark and the lead singer of Fates Warning became a big fan of ours and a good friend as well. They were convinced we were going to get signed. So was Rob Zombie! That guy was a crack up!
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Phil, do you happen to remember a guitarist named Robin Graves from back then? He was about 6'5" or so. Big crazy guy. Incredible player - he took lessons from one of the guys in Leatherwolf.





Tim
 
Tim Brown said:
Phil, do you happen to remember a guitarist named Robin Graves from back then? He was about 6'5" or so. Big crazy guy. Incredible player - he took lessons from one of the guys in Leatherwolf.


Tim
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I may have! I ran into alot of tall hairy guitarists, mostly while drinking at the Now Voyager in Burbank or at Cherokee's off of Sunset Blvd, including the guys from Leatherwolf. I opened the door to the rehearsal place once and met face to face with Stephen Pearcy of RATT. Man he's a short guy!

What band was Robin in? His name is really familiar.
 
PhilGood said:
I may have! I ran into alot of tall hairy guitarists, mostly while drinking at the Now Voyager in Burbank or at Cherokee's off of Sunset Blvd, including the guys from Leatherwolf. I opened the door to the rehearsal place once and met face to face with Stephen Pearcy of RATT. Man he's a short guy!

What band was Robin in? His name is really familiar.
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I know he was playing with the Mezmerist for a while. He would be probably 42-45 now. He and my bass player went out to L.A.. Robin was from there, his real name was John Gruewell. Robin Graves (i.e., a Grave Robber) was his stage name. LOL


Tim
 
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Tim Brown said:
I know he was playing with the Mezmerist for a while. He would be probably 42-45 now. He and my bass player went out to L.A.. Robin was from there, his real name was John Gruewell. Robin Graves (i.e., a Grave Robber) was his stage name. LOL


Tim
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Do you know what years this mighty have been? I was part of the scene from late 1989 up to 1997. Then I gave up and just recently started into the songwriting thing and coverband. I auditioned for one band who shared rehearsal space (warehouse) with leatherwolf. There were people in and out all the time. Mezmerist is a name I used to see on the club billboards, and I'd see flyers, but I don't recall seeing them. Maybe at Madame Wong's West a long time ago.


Hmmmm...
 
I Play My Drums Pretty strangely...I take My Sticks and Tape up the Hitting end of the Sticks and then Turn them arround and use the Thick end of the Stick as the Part that Hits the Drum and Hold the Taped up Thin end of the Stick, I actually Hold the Stick in the Middle so it is Ballanced in my Hand and Hit with the Think end of the Stick...

This way I get an extremely Loud and Heavy Sound when I hit the Drums but I also Break a Lot of Skins and Crack a Lot of Cymbals and it takes about twice as Much effort to Hit the Drum because I am Swinging the Heavy end of the Stick but this is the Way I am More Comfortable with....

I usually Play Super Slow Heavy Type Music that has no real Song or Chord Structure (That is really Noticeable) so it is Like Mixing Super Slow Death Metal with Jazz and this Drum style works Great for this Type of Experimental Music....

Cheers
 
tmix said:
I don't know if this is common knowlege, but the original reason (best way) of the traditional grip was because of people playing field drums where the drums swung off to 1 side. Try playing THAT with a matched grip.
That being said I play a matched grip style mainly because I am ambidextrious and find it more comforable for the Celtic /Jazz /Funk stuff I play.
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Almost without fail there are drummers who say they are ambidextrous. Those guys are generally assholes. Just cuz you can spank it with your left hand does not mean that you are ambidextrous.
 
PhilGood said:
I was in the same drumline as Chad Sexton from 311 waaaaay back in the day.
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So was I. But only for about a minute. You were in the River City Railmen from Omaha Nebraska.
 
What about Jazz

Speaking of DCI
Have you seen The Cadets (Champs)from last year?
I'm excited to be getting "The Lot".
Brings back memories!
 
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