Special shout out to master teacher Bruce Becker, who helped me with some of these concepts. :) Also, my comment about the great book Stick Control was meant to say that, in my view, the displaced double should be number 5, before going on to paradiddles. :)
I'm wondering if it's something of a general observation that when I start my daily exercises - mostly just with 8th and 16th double strokes in loop - and focus on my weak hand, which is the left, I find after a short while that my right hand gets kind of sloppy and I feel like I continue to favor my left hand as a lead. It's kind of exhausting and annoying. And, thanks for the video. New sub fr
I totally understand. It’s where you were putting your attention. It’s very important at a basic level to try not to add accents at all. Meaning that if you close your eyes and just listen to your sound just like you’re singles. This would require both hands to be absolutely the same. Take a slowish tempo and do one or two measures of singles to one or two measures of doubles in 8 th notes. Take a little voice memo recording with your phone and listen back. Do they sound the same?
@@tobiasgebb Thanks Tobias! Intuitively, I do exactly what you say except the recordings which is indeed a nice idea. Since yesterday I've been practicing the double strokes in triplets that's what you briefly showed in your video. I was fixed on it right away. It was quite a struggle at the very beginning but I mastered it and it's the most fun since then!
Special shout out to master teacher Bruce Becker, who helped me with some of these concepts. :) Also, my comment about the great book Stick Control was meant to say that, in my view, the displaced double should be number 5, before going on to paradiddles. :)
I’m a bassist… nice job! I’m always keeping an eye on you drummers.
Ha. I should say ditto! We both are the hardest working musicians on stage!
@@tobiasgebbI was not aware of the different, gripping techniques, German, French and American. Very cool!
I'm wondering if it's something of a general observation that when I start my daily exercises - mostly just with 8th and 16th double strokes in loop - and focus on my weak hand, which is the left, I find after a short while that my right hand gets kind of sloppy and I feel like I continue to favor my left hand as a lead. It's kind of exhausting and annoying. And, thanks for the video. New sub fr
I totally understand. It’s where you were putting your attention. It’s very important at a basic level to try not to add accents at all. Meaning that if you close your eyes and just listen to your sound just like you’re singles. This would require both hands to be absolutely the same. Take a slowish tempo and do one or two measures of singles to one or two measures of doubles in 8 th notes. Take a little voice memo recording with your phone and listen back. Do they sound the same?
@@tobiasgebb Thanks Tobias! Intuitively, I do exactly what you say except the recordings which is indeed a nice idea. Since yesterday I've been practicing the double strokes in triplets that's what you briefly showed in your video. I was fixed on it right away. It was quite a struggle at the very beginning but I mastered it and it's the most fun since then!
@@_InTheBin Amazing! Let me know if you have any other questions. Or ideas for a post? :)
Ridiculous……
Why ridiculous? 😎
Yea, why?
@@_InTheBin maybe ridiculous in a good way ? 🤷😭
@@tobiasgebb for sure