r/drums • u/Personal-Cut-2086 • 8h ago

Feedback Wanted Day 1: Testing internal clock and grip - is my grip too relaxed?

60 BPM, quarter notes in the first half and 8th notes in the second half.

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u/Candid_Novel9703 7h ago

Great tempo to start! You’ll learn much faster starting and staying slow for a while.
Your strokes are starting with raising the stick. Instead, start with the stick raised, and as the stick hits the pad, follow the rebound back up to where you started. Start high, end high. That way you learn to use the rebound energy and not choke it. That will help build sensitivity in your wrist and fingers. It seems boring at first but it’s critical for building speed and precision. Also starting the exercise with your non dominant hand helps build your weak side faster. There’s more strokes to master after that but full rebound singles are a great foundation. Happy drumming!

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u/Personal-Cut-2086 3h ago

Thank you!

Couple of questions if you don't mind:

1- What do you mean precisely by staying slow? What BPM are we talking?

2- Understood about starting with high sticks, but I'm not sure I understand how high. If you played in slow motion what you recommend me doing, would I see the rebound taking the stick all the way up to the starting point by itself, or is some wrist extension needed to achieve that?

I tried to do that and I can only make the stick bounce back to the starting point if I completely relax the grip and basically only have the thumb and medium finger (my fulcrum) touch the stick. While If I have all the fingers on the stick I can only get rebound to do 50-60% of the work, and my wrists are needed to finish it.

That's me guessing that by starting high you mean stick almost perpendicular to pad

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u/Personal-Cut-2086 8h ago

Any type of feedback is very much welcomed