Sonar Dave
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He's having fun and he sounds good. Win-win.
Or the head. El Estepario Siberiano does a lot of tossing the stick to the toms or snare and catching it back, but his heads are so tight he can do that, anyone that tunes their drums normally would have a much harder time.So far I twirl one revolution with my left over my head in the silent part between snare hits. I can twirl one rev with my right the opposite way.
Stick tosses? I've toyed at home with it.
I tried the floor tom slam but couldn't control it, and it's potentially damaging to the bearing edge.
He is good as a drummer, but he comes across as forced when he is reacting to things and very produced. (most be nice to have rich dad).I'll work on spinning when my drumming is (much) better...
I've been watching this guy for other reasons, but he has some stick tricks dialed in.
Since that post about hating stick twirling was thankfully closed, here's a positive example of the master at work, the great Dino Danelli, who got his shtick from jazz drummers Sonny Payne and Lionel Hampton. There's no question that Dino had the chops to back up the showmanship. He was the whole package; talent, feel, chops, good looks. He was a major influence on me as a young drummer.
But the thing is, a kid can practice his twirls in silence.Newer/beginner drummers would fare well and be better drummers sooner by by spending more time on and not skipping the important steps or ……..
Exactly. That is how I learned to do the silly little flip that I do. Trying to learn that now, forget it!But the thing is, a kid can practice his twirls in silence.
When I was a young drummer with my drums set up in my bedroom, I couldn't play drums at night. But I could practice twirls at night. So I did.
It wasn't that I put twirling ahead of drumming, it's just I had a lot of time at night with nothing else I could practice other than twirling.
I suspect many of today's kids are in the same boat. When mom says knock it off for the evening, but you still want to do something drum related, you twirl sticks in silence.