Wavelength
Platinum Member
Re: the moler technique
Two snare drum passages; the first is single-height, forte all the way, and the second is a two-height passage played with alternating hands. I marked the strokes one should use when playing the second example: Down strokes, Taps and Up strokes. If you don't pre-empt the accents and ghosts using the strokes themselves, you'll have to do the pre-emptive motions between the strokes, which translates to wasted effort. As for the first passage, why should you stop your sticks after every stroke, when the sticks want to rebound back up? It makes no sense.
Of course no-one keeps his sticks up all the time when playing two-and-four. The pre-emptive motions are mostly used when playing dense(ish) two-height passages on a snare or on the kit.
Two snare drum passages; the first is single-height, forte all the way, and the second is a two-height passage played with alternating hands. I marked the strokes one should use when playing the second example: Down strokes, Taps and Up strokes. If you don't pre-empt the accents and ghosts using the strokes themselves, you'll have to do the pre-emptive motions between the strokes, which translates to wasted effort. As for the first passage, why should you stop your sticks after every stroke, when the sticks want to rebound back up? It makes no sense.
Of course no-one keeps his sticks up all the time when playing two-and-four. The pre-emptive motions are mostly used when playing dense(ish) two-height passages on a snare or on the kit.