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Traditional Grip can be difficult to learn but it is a great technique to have in your back pocket especially for drum line, playing jazz, or concert snare. Traditional is a very powerful but delicate technique in my opinion.

[@shlxng1787]

Super well explained 🙌

[@rayboreham2648]

Is there any need to learn traditional grip? Seems to me, if, like me, you play matched, it's just doubling up the work load, which is already heavy enough. Unless, of course, you're in a marching band, but that's a different story.

[@charlie_lol4182]

It just looks cool man!

[@rayboreham2648]

As long as what comes out sounds good, who cares how "cool" it looks? Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not against trad grip, just don't see any real need for it if you're not already using it.

[@charlie_lol4182]

@@rayboreham2648 its not a necessary thing to know but good to have if you ever feel like using it in something in like a jazz setting

[@rayboreham2648]

@charlie_lol4182 Not necessary there either. There are plenty of excellent jazz drummers playing almost exclusively matched grip, e.g. Eric Harland, Marcus Gilmore, Mark Guiliana, to name just 3. Again, trad not necessary to learn to play any style of music, but if it floats your boat... Matched is much more versatile. I've yet to see a trad metal player, but maybe that's just me.