mrfingers
Senior Member
So I come from trad grip playing and “gave it up” a couple of years ago to learn matched due to the carpal tunnel pain I developed while learning flams. I know it seemed strange at the time but the more I learned matched the better my left hand felt until finally the carpal tunnel pain went away.
Eventually I reached the rudiment stage of flamming with matched grip- a lot easier than before! Then I tried the same flams using trad grip and found I could do them at the same tempos as matched with almost no learning curve!
I can only conclude my brain transferred the flam patterns from matched grip learned muscle learning to trad grip in a sort of “cross-talk.” Now I know I can do this with any patterns learned as matched to trad with few problems.
Is this a “getagrippa” topic?
Eventually I reached the rudiment stage of flamming with matched grip- a lot easier than before! Then I tried the same flams using trad grip and found I could do them at the same tempos as matched with almost no learning curve!
I can only conclude my brain transferred the flam patterns from matched grip learned muscle learning to trad grip in a sort of “cross-talk.” Now I know I can do this with any patterns learned as matched to trad with few problems.
Is this a “getagrippa” topic?
