Bill Bachman Lesson Series: Not Quite Matched Grip
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- VF Signature Artist Bill Bachman discusses common problems with matched grip that's not quite matched. In this lesson, Bill will uncover a common cause to the left hand being so much weaker--a matched grip isn't really matched! The right tends to be more American to French grip and the left more German (which is less optimum for finger control among other things). By developing French in the weaker hand and then settling into a perfectly matched American grips, leaps can quickly be made in the weaker hand's progress.
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This and the "gap or no gap " video have helped me more than a whole year of practicing. Must watch videos! Huuuge respect!
It's weird when you see a drum lesson all about stuff you learned the hard way
You speak the truth brother! Right hand totally benefits from playing on the ride, where it naturally converts to french grip and builds up fingers!
Nice one!
So helpful, thank you very much! I've definitely been trying to break through the brick wall with renewed vigor and having no luck.
Good video/lesson... there are so many little nuances in grips and grip positions so your video does shed light on the fact of the left hand being deficient. Working on the French grip will facilitate faster hand/finger development. ... SO, what I did was put a ride cymbal on my left side ( ala Carter Beauford ) and started to work the french grip. Open handed playing style... it's a great method just to open yourself up and be more versatile. I doubt that I'll ever be a great open handed drummer but the topic here is left hand position in the French mode...I just thought of putting a ride cymbal to my left would make it more fun and to open up possibilities on the kit.... anyhow great lesson , thanks
Excellent!
This is exactly my problem! My right hand is super agile and plays american grip, and my left hand is stiff and lagging behind because it's playing german grip! I had no idea how to fix it and i was at times just working on my left hand twice as much and was getting frustrated because it wasn't improving. Thanks so much for this!
The thing that fixed this for me was one finger at a time playing singles, doubles and paradiddles. 5m each for first and second fingers; 5m total for the others. Then I'd also randomly stop and turn my hands over to confirm that a) my fulcrum was the same distance up the stick; and b) my fingers were leveraging the stick from the same point.
Great insight.. thank you!
best teacher on www!
Thanks Bill, this lesson really made me re-asses my grip! I realised that I was 'unmatched' in a weird way; my hands were equally German, but my left hand was rotated slightly outwards across the plane of the drum. So my right stick was sticking out from my right arm, and my left stick was parallel to my left arm. Bit of a strange situation. I have also noticed that my right elbow sometimes pokes out more than the left.I need to invest in a mirror!
Excellent insight, thank you!
This revelation blew my mind
Bill, I love this! So true!
thanks
did he say firth of all at 1:29 ?
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Brilliant!
This fixed my left hand! holy crap
Is that actually the reason it’s called German and French grip? Fencing? Wow. That’s super interesting.
Very helpful! I play french/american with my right but for some reason my left play german... I often feel like the german grip on my left hand stiff me up and feels unnatural. Thanks, great tip!
Thank you.. We have come to the point where there is only one 'grip' which includes them all and excludes none.. 'Natural Grip' has arrived.. And I agree about the fencing history and have taken heat for it lol..
Great video! Got some thoughts after watching this. I want to emphasize a point which I think didn't get enough attention (a part of the point is well emphasized in another video that Bill has, "Building French Grip", so that may be the reason it's not included, but I think it's also useful here).
I play a lot of french grip with my left hand, but I just now noticed that my left hand suck at the french grip wrist stroke movement. I'm good at left hand french grip finger strokes, but bad at left hand french grip wrist strokes. I think french grip with only fingers strokes is a poor grip because you don't want to change the whole grip if one suddenly is in the need of a wrist stroke (or if one wants to do a combined wrist and finger stroke).
So, If one is practicing french grip to improve finger strokes when having been using german grip or something alike, also practice the french grip wrist stroke movement really well! The reason is mainly one of the aspects in which that german and french grip wrist strokes are different from each other. The wrist twisting is different!
When doing a wrist stroke in german grip one twist wrist in a way such that the bases of the thumbs twists towards the other hand, but when doing a wrist stroke in french grip one twists the bases of the thumbs away from the other hand (i.e. the twisting orientation in german grip is opposite from twisting orientating in french grip). So german grip wrist twist can't be used to stroke down when holding in french grip.
As a side note, both french and german grip bends the wrist down to the floor when doing a wrist stroke, it's just the twisting orientation that is different. The act of bending down is done in different ways in the different grips because the grips have different resting positions. The hand is twisted (amongs other adjustments) to come from the resting position of one grip to the other.
TLDR: Ups! Did just notice that my left hand suck at wrist strokes when playing french grip. Finger strokes are good. Suppose I need to learn french grip properly.
"left behind" !!
theres a missing doubles video by Bachman... where the fck is it.
Hilarious!!!!!!!