Loosen Up....Please 

Agree!

Amen!! Thanks Rick!

Amen. You can hear his love for music in every note. I can’t even imagine the work and time he’s put into mastering this wonderful art form. I can’t express how much I’ve learned from him and how thankful I am for all of it. Maestro.

Yes, that's so true. And if you record in small rooms a lot as I do, you can actually overplay the room so your sound is smaller. It's always better to play lighter and let the mics do the work.

Hi So glad you are still playing, even with all the health issues. If you type in "drum tuning" in the search box on my channel page, several videos will come up. Check out drum tuning 101 and 102.

@@rickdior THX Rick...

Yes, it will be worth it since you will be able to play for the rest of your life.

It's a GM Designs flat ride. Thanks

I am sure I do if you look through my hand technique playlist.

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@@rickdior Thanks a lot for your fast response😃Love your way Master

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Yes and you can see his hands all bandaged up in lots of pictures and videos. Of course, I played in a punk band in the 80's and the whole idea was to play hard and fast.

No, not regularly. Every once in a while, you might get a bad stick. It happens. Sounds like you are playing into the drum. That would definitely cause breakage, especially with maple sticks.

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What does popularity have anything to do with technique? There are dozens of well known drummers with horrible physical ergonomics at their kits.

So you are saying that all of the great drummers of the past who invented modern drum set playing and played traditional grip were doing it wrong. I suppose you play better and are more influential than all of them. Can't wait to hear you play but wait....I can't find anything.

Has nothing to do with my playing (even if I wouldn’t play drums) Rick. The traditional grip was meant for playing while marching and to be able to march while drumming the drum needed to to be hung in let’s say a 40 degree angle. And that specific situation needs the traditional grip. The drumkit evolved from first putting the snare and bass together (Dee Dee Chandler, double drumming end 19th century) to adding a hi-hat, later cymbal and tom. And we (elderly) were still all trained/educated (mostly first only on the snare > practice your rudiments) with the traditional grip. Which is unnatural to be honest sitting behind a kit. The younger teachers (@least the one I recently picked) as I thought would be good to have some lessons again take it differently. She showed me the posture of several famous drummers using the traditional grip. They all adjusted their posture/shoulder angle to the straightness of the kit > left shoulder somewhat lower. Same with fills around the kit > the reach of the left arm vs the right. And she convinced me. Takes some time to get used to but is in the end a more natural posture;-)

I hate having to respond to these comments over and over from misinformed people, but I think I will do it one last time since I think it needs to be said that it is important to learn both grips. This will be a long rant. Your argument is arrogant and not based on facts. It can't be taken seriously because you have not displayed an ability to play the instrument in all styles on a professional level. Please send me some clips of you playing all styles of music as well as with brushes. This has everything to do with your playing or lack thereof so you might know the difference and benefits of each grip. The traditional grip has many advantages on the drum set. The tilt you speak does not even need to be there. I am not tilting my snare at the kit as you describe as you can see if you watch any of my performances. I am not leaning a certain way and my body feels great after playing for 55 years. All of my teachers also played both grips and they played well into old age without any hand or body problems. I play and teach both traditional and matched grip in my professional life as I do on this channel for all to see and hear. I use each grip for specific things, and they are both useful and valid. For certain things though such as playing brushes the traditional grip is the best grip and if you played brushes well in all styles you would know that. The traditional grip takes advantage of the weaknesses of the non-dominant hand by getting it out from under the control of a weaker wrist and letting it be controlled by the fingers which are more dexterous on the weak hand. Rebound is easier since there is more space to move as you have no restrictions in the bouncing of the stick. It also gives you lots of angle superiority on the hihat, snare drum and toms if you use and play it correctly. Of course, you have to master it to realize this which is no small feat. If you have not mastered the grip, you would not know this. Instead, you might take someone else's word on it as you have done. I could easily list 100 names of the great drummers who have used this grip while inventing modern drum set drumming, but I think it's pretty obvious to everybody that these players are the pinnacle of drum set and drumming technique. I will list a few, Warren Baby Dodds, Jo Jones, Billy Gladstone, Buddy Rich, Joe Morello, Tony Williams, Jack Dejohnette, Roy Haynes, Steve Gadd, and so on. Of course, if you had a leg to stand on here it would be the fact that you have mastered both grips, but I see absolutely no evidence of that. Until that is proven you are just a Monday morning quarterback or music critic who is just trying to stir things up and put false information out there that could really do harm to young players who want to be complete musicians and not just drummers who play one style of music.

Rest my case, good that u did it one last time (important to learn both grips as the one or the other fit different styles better). I’m just a simple hobby drummer playing bit of blues/funky/poppy stuff. But if we’re honest, Steve Gadd & Buddy Rich are great examples of two drummers where the shoulder line has grown out of balance over their drumming career years. Steve even without drumsticks in his hands shows always that left shoulder down posture ;-)

I think it's time for you to get a new hobby, a political consultant, maybe?