Not a traditional grip player but the wisdom of growing through imposing limitations on yourself is so powerful. It even helps with creativity. Being creative within confines is much easier and sometimes more profound.
i got into drums because of jazz so ive always used traditional grip, i switch to match grip when its more comfortable, like when im playing the tom to my right
Quincey is back! If you ever make it to Washington state, I know A LOT of drummers who would love to hear you play and watch a master class or two--know what I'm saying? I love these back to basics videos. I think the key to being musical on any instrument is to know and respect the fundamentals.
Thanks for the Mechanics refresher on using Traditional grip, Quincy! I learned the trad grip years ago and switch back and forth depending on the situation. Your 5 1/2 x 14" Aluminum Recording custom snare is Beautiful! I Purchased mine last year and absolutely love the sound of it. Who needs a wall full of snare drums when all you need is this Bad Boy!
Very important video for young drummers! There is very little of this kind of quality content from a great drummer on youtube. Traditional grip press rolls next!
Here I'm playing traditional in a heavy rock situation. Please excuse the horrible double kick. I forgot to untie my shoes... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eYpU5ohARNM.html
Wow thanks a lot! While watching this video I noticed my fulcrum was not firm enough, corrected that and it feels so much easier now! Thank you for this !
I was taught how to use traditional grip back in 1967. Therefore, I take a lot of pride in being very proficient in it. It's foriegn, to many young drummers today. It's almost an lost art. Don't get me wrong, many of my drum hero's play match.(ringo). I just feel it's a crucial element in jazz drumming.. I remember Tony Williams stated something along those lines. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule, like Benny greb and others who swing there butts off. But at the same time, I personally feel, that one could line up ten traditional players against ten match players and chances are the majority of the traditional players would fair much better in a jazzy situation. In addition to this, many times when I play a funky groove, I will lock it in playing match grip. I just think, traditional grip lends it self better to jazz(especially swing). Enough said, I'm talking to much.. Anyway Quincy, keep up the good work.
My teacher taught me an amazing exercise for strength and speed for the left hand with traditional grip It’s called matched grip And now it’s better than ever!
Great info! A couple things though-at 5:10 you say “ring finger and the thumb”, but then demonstrate with your middle finger and thumb (I’m guessing you meant to say middle finger). At 5:46 you say that in traditional grip the wrist supinates (“soup”inates) and pronates-it’s not the wrist that’s supinating and pronating, but the radio-ulnar joint in your forearm (about an inch from your elbow, toward your hands), and the wrist‘s orientation changes as a consequence. You can verify this by tightly gripping the middle of your forearm and attempting the rotation-your wrist won’t rotate because the motion is coming from behind the point you’re holding.
Quincy has to be one of the best teachers on you tube to many others don't teach anything of real value and are just showing off the only other one really worth watching is John Riley
Hello Quincy, amazing drumming, really! Please, could you briefly describe the way you recorded the drums? In case you remember it? Thank you for all your info.
Hi Quincy! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Great information. I have a question: What Yamaha model do you play on those videos? Stage Custom or Tour Custom? And how do you like them? Would you record with those models? Thanks!
I love Wes Montgomery Live at the Half Note, Joe Henderson Four!, John Coltrane Stardust Sessions, Wynton Kelly! and of course Kind of Blue. Thanks for watching SMFMCA...:)
You've got great speed. Have you experimented with alternating between thumb and index finger, or thumb-middle, or index-middle, from within the standard traditional grip position? I think I've seen sdjmalik doing this. Also, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Kiichi Kobayashi.
@@drumqtips he’s a snare player with chops through the roof. You’ll dig :) also he does speaks in Japanese in some of his instructionals, if you’re looking to practice 日本語 :)
@@drumqtips Can you recommend a record or two where he is playing that sort of vocab? I've only just started checking him out, but so far the sound is very different when he swings with matched. Badass! But not the Roy sound I'm kind of obsessed with.
Late to the party here. I started out learning traditional and years later switched to matched. Now, I want to get proficient again in trad but whenever I try it gets very sore in my fulcrum (web). Very annoying but I keep trying. I wouldn't say I'm overdoing it either. I just love the sort of feeling like you're tossing a salad when playing traditional but it starts hurting every time 🤥
Hey Quincy, I use both traditional and matched but prefer traditional due to playing jazz techniques frequently. Anyways good tutorial and keep playing
And I was reluctant at the beginning to practice traditional grip because it looked cool ! ....( Suspiciously cliché ).. i thought it was just a pose..
I played the first 10 or 12 years traditional grip (started 1968) because it was the norm & in band we still had the drum hanging from neck - tilted to right side. I switched to match grip and found it easier to get a clean strike on left crash as well as cross sticking (like when I played timps in orchestra). What you can do on left with traditional grip you can do match grip. I'd call it a matter of personal choice. Think about guys like Tony Williams. What he plays with right hand on ride cymbal he can do left handed. Billy Cobham is ambidextrous and doing it matched grip.
If one learnt to play snare drum in a brass band or in a classic percussion class he plays like this because he use to. If you don't adjust your snare tilted like Quincy Davis it serve to nothing IMMO.
