Raymond Bloom
Pioneer Member
Re: TRADITIONAL vs MATCHED GRIP
Mhm...I watched that Dom Falmularo video with Jim Chapin on Vic Firth web page, and ya know what, Jim does triplets and 16th notes better with his left hand... IMHO if u want to get into Moeller technique and Gladstone technique it could be better to learn trad grip basicly just because when these techniques were invented drummers mainly played using trad grip.
Another thing is more different sound options because of the angle the stick is benig hold, for example when doing triplets u can get 3 different sounds easely just because each one of these strokes will have a completely different angle
As for why one should learn trad grip, here are my reasons:
1) looks cool D
2) a different feal
3) easyer to do triplets
One more thing, i liked the way how Jojo Mayer explained why he uses trad grip - first of all it is because he had some clinics from the guys that lived in the big bad and early jazz era and they just sayed ''hey what's that? that's not a grip! Man, u should play in traditional'' D
The reasons he keeps playing that - it just makes a completely different feal and the left arm is able to do things that his right wouldn't come up to, as he sayed he is sometimes surprised of what his left hand does and - asymmetry is more creative then symmetry
Mhm...I watched that Dom Falmularo video with Jim Chapin on Vic Firth web page, and ya know what, Jim does triplets and 16th notes better with his left hand... IMHO if u want to get into Moeller technique and Gladstone technique it could be better to learn trad grip basicly just because when these techniques were invented drummers mainly played using trad grip.
Another thing is more different sound options because of the angle the stick is benig hold, for example when doing triplets u can get 3 different sounds easely just because each one of these strokes will have a completely different angle
As for why one should learn trad grip, here are my reasons:
1) looks cool D
2) a different feal
3) easyer to do triplets
One more thing, i liked the way how Jojo Mayer explained why he uses trad grip - first of all it is because he had some clinics from the guys that lived in the big bad and early jazz era and they just sayed ''hey what's that? that's not a grip! Man, u should play in traditional'' D
The reasons he keeps playing that - it just makes a completely different feal and the left arm is able to do things that his right wouldn't come up to, as he sayed he is sometimes surprised of what his left hand does and - asymmetry is more creative then symmetry