I've been struggling with this forever, on both feet and hands (fingers).
Fortunately my main instrument is the piano, where this is not that big of an issue except for trills - but I can happily play jazz without them.
But yeah basically everything that involves fast repetition, my dominant (right) side sucks. For anything else it's stronger and more accurate, as you would expect from the dominant side.
On drums my only solution is wrist/fingers combinations (push-pull etc), which I don't like unless I specifically need accented singles. And for my right foot it's even more hopeless, but well as long as I don't try to play metal I can get away with it.
To give you some numbers: with my right hand I can tap 8th notes only up to around 150 bpm before I start feeling some tension. Meanwhile, on the same click with my left side I can tap triplets and it feels super easy. My feet are a bit slower but same ratio.
Over the years I've only found one guy on the internet who had a similar issue. Came across a thread from him on this very board, he also had a youtube channel, but I can't find them anymore.
Does it ring a bell to anyone here? I really feel like an alien when I think about it.
Fortunately my main instrument is the piano, where this is not that big of an issue except for trills - but I can happily play jazz without them.
But yeah basically everything that involves fast repetition, my dominant (right) side sucks. For anything else it's stronger and more accurate, as you would expect from the dominant side.
On drums my only solution is wrist/fingers combinations (push-pull etc), which I don't like unless I specifically need accented singles. And for my right foot it's even more hopeless, but well as long as I don't try to play metal I can get away with it.
To give you some numbers: with my right hand I can tap 8th notes only up to around 150 bpm before I start feeling some tension. Meanwhile, on the same click with my left side I can tap triplets and it feels super easy. My feet are a bit slower but same ratio.
Over the years I've only found one guy on the internet who had a similar issue. Came across a thread from him on this very board, he also had a youtube channel, but I can't find them anymore.
Does it ring a bell to anyone here? I really feel like an alien when I think about it.
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