I played TRADITIONAL GRIP for 7 days and this happened!

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First a 7 day playing left-handed challenge, now a 7 day playing with traditional grip challenge. Dude you really challenged yourself my man

I play snare in marching percussion and seeing your immediate reaction to your ring finger hurting made me remember back to my first band camp when I got a blister the size of my fingernail on the side of my ring finger. It was full week of 8 hour days and we were playing 90% of the time so my finger was not too happy with me after the first 2 days. You are supposed to create a fulcrum between your ring finger and pointer finger around the stick for the most control, so the pain in the beginning is a sign of proper technique. Letting the rebound of the stick dictate the motion can make it very difficult to control the stick, and by proxy makes it far harder to consistently play something with a good height and velocity. While you don't need to follow this for drumset traditional, this marching approach is the best way to get the most control with traditional, so if you want to play the best traditional grip you should follow marching percussion technique. As for the blister / finger pain, it goes away with time so don't worry about it. However, you shouldn't play all day everyday despite the pain because then it won't heal. It'll only heal while there is no friction and will only get worse the more you play if you don't give it time to heal. Once a callous forms though you'll be good and won't have to worry about the pain as there should be pretty much none. Also, a little tip that might help is to wrap the finger in electrical tape or a bandaid if you need to practice despite the pain. Bandaids may not stay on so that's why electrical tape is there, just make sure you don't put the electrical tape on too tight as that will cause your finger to loose circulation and it won't be too comfortable. Anyways, I loved the video, keep it up! (Also you should try marching percussion, I think it would be a pretty good video)

I was taught traditional grip originally. I still play traditional. My professor at the conservatory hated that I played it. His argument was logical i.e. you don't trad timpani/etc etc but on set and snare? Yeah no prob. Whether or not he was right it doesn't matter. I still play trad and am happy

Learning DCI or Pipe Band drumming will increase any drum kit players skills beyond belief. Even if you go back to matched grip afterwards, you'll have learned: Moller method, incredible dynamics techniques for both hands, perfect rolls in every category (buzz rolls, open rolls - every stroke number), individual finger technique to control the sticks with ridiculous finesse, perfect flams, better timing, and correct accent techniques. Too many kit drummers stop at limb independence, and never really work on hand/finger technique, so their snare playing is lazy, one-dimensional, or never really complements the whole kit sound the way it should. Seriously - rather than having biased ideas about traditional grip, kit players should take a workshop that covers all the important DCI/pipe band techniques because it will include work with the right hand, as well, and the lessons carry over if traditional grip doesn't "stick" with you and you go back to matched grip. Take it from a long-time kit player.

Yo bro you did a great job in 7 days! I have been learning the traditional grip for like 3 months but didn't get this good though. By the way, whenever you feel comfortable, try covering the Caravan which was at the end of the 'Whiplash' movie. All the best for your future projects! :D

Wow Brother You are amazing, And in 4 days, you managed to master it, greetings

Try to keep your fingers on the stick so you can keep control of the stick. You can let the stick rest on your ring finger and stop the stick with your pointer finger. The only time you should take any fingers off the stick is when you're playing rolls, in which case you take your pointer and middle fingers off the stick. Also, it is actually a good thing to hold the stick further back in your hand. Hold both sticks and point them up at the same height, putting your thumbs next to each other. The tips of your thumbs should be about an inch apart. That will give you the most rebound and control of your stick.

if theres anyone here wanting to try traditional grip try also try adding time to watch marching percussion specifically the battery like the snares or tenors/quads, watch the snares to watch how they use there muscles to play traditional on marching snare and watch the quads and how they do the arounds on the drums like the sweeps crossovers etc and try to mix it togethor on the kit

Me too Alejandro! I was really good using traditional grip but I felt better on the kit playing matched grip. It's taken years and years to get my left hand even close to my right hand and now I can't even play traditional grip very well at all. Maybe it's time to try again. 🥁❤️

Nice job! I am a traditional grip player! So thanks for sharing this information!

All through high-school I had to do this. Now I can in my sleep good job.

When I was in DCI, the idea was that you hold the stick like you're flipping someone the finger. That action meant the rest of your fingers touched the stick (lightly) and established the fulcrum. From there you got the agility and power.

Whole new vibe with traditional. Great players mix the two.

Good to see you back bro !! your drumming video are awesome keep it up !! and please play yummy song in drums

Bravo chief! Good video, humble

Traditional grip is what i normally play on drums, and i really love that side snare sound though.

before i got to play the drums my drum teacher made me go through a whole year of learning Traditional grip on a snare drum lmao (note: i was like 9) then once i went to play the drums (mostly rock style which i prefered) he allowed me to play match grip due to it being easier to go around the drums dont get him wrong, he plays also uses both styles ( depending on the use case) but match grip is so much easier to learn (since its just mirroring the right hand) that being able to play traditional grip will give you so much more freedom the best Drummers know how and when to switch between each grip style

Bravo from France !

Very NICE Thank you so much. I would have liked to see you play the same song with match grip in the end. To comapare. But thats not important, really. Im going to try learning trad a little better thanks to you.