stellar92010
Senior Member
What is your sticking method? I've found it convenient to learn a method and addhere to it. The method I am using is called 'root sticking' My teacher says most people play using a form of this. Basically, your lead hand (Right in my case) will always strike downbeats (quarter notes) and 'and beats' when there are 16th note phrases. Other notes--the 'e' and ah are always played with left hand. However ('and' beats in a phrase of 2 8th notes always are played with the left hand unless a 16th is embedded in the phrase. this ensures that the lead hand lands on the down beat.
thirty-second notes are cne-e-and-a for groups of 2, like 16ths, and the corresponding beats are played with double strokes.
The method breads down for eiigth note tirplets. So trriplets are alternated. But, when a 1/4 or longer rest occurs, or a whole note, or half note, then the next downbeat switches back to the right hand. For a dotted eight with sixteenth the sixteenth will be played left hand so the downbeat falls on the right hand.
Anyone hear of this method? Its fabulous for reading.. Once you get it down, its easy to speed read even difficult phrases and passages.
It really seems logical, and I even tried it for reading bass guitar, and there is a corresponding method. (I use to play bass)
What method do you use?
thirty-second notes are cne-e-and-a for groups of 2, like 16ths, and the corresponding beats are played with double strokes.
The method breads down for eiigth note tirplets. So trriplets are alternated. But, when a 1/4 or longer rest occurs, or a whole note, or half note, then the next downbeat switches back to the right hand. For a dotted eight with sixteenth the sixteenth will be played left hand so the downbeat falls on the right hand.
Anyone hear of this method? Its fabulous for reading.. Once you get it down, its easy to speed read even difficult phrases and passages.
It really seems logical, and I even tried it for reading bass guitar, and there is a corresponding method. (I use to play bass)
What method do you use?