So what about people learning drums for the first time?
So lets take 100 first time players.Half play cross,and half play open.How do you divide them.Half lefty,half righty...no you can't because leftys are only about 10% of the population.How about left? right dominant.As a shooting instrustor,I can tell you that most shooters of Asian decent ,are strongly right handed,but left eye dominant.Thats just a fact.How do you address that.?
Who will be the instructors,what's their training,background?Are they openhanded or crosshanded.What is some of these instructoers were trained by the famous Freddy Gruber,a big proponent of traditional playing and Mohler.
AAhh.Another the new way is better way ,by saying we've all been held back all these years,by playing a traditional method.
If that were true,then guys like Simon Phillips,Lenny White and a few others,would be on a totally different level,than the rest of us,but thats not true ....is it?
Those guys have been playing open handed,for DACADES,and although,they are world class drummers in their own right,I can see limitations and benefits in both approaches.
Sorry,I just can buy into the whole " tradition has been holding us back" statement.Lets dive into matched vs., traditional,French vs.German,less is more,more is more,and more is less also.
Then we can transition to birch,vs.maple,vs.poplar,vs.mahogany,vs,cocobola,vs.bubinga,vs,carbon fiber,vs,acrylic,vs.fiberglass,vs wood/fiberglass hybrid.
Then ply vs,solid,vs.stave,vs extruded,vs cast,vs.hollowed out logs.
It really comes down to what someone thinks is better,and then seeking to somehow,quantify,something,thats NOT quantifiable.Kind of like using a chart,to plot,which is the best drummer on the panet thing.
Horse hockey.Play the way you feel the most comfortable.Play in a way ,that suits YOUR style.Forget all this new is better nonsense,and trying to unseat the old guard bull.
New is just that ..new,NOT better,and usually recylced if you just do some research.
Steve B
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