Traditional Grip Push/Pull Technique for Blazing Single-Strokes 

I can definitely see what you mean, technically it isn't a push-pull. Those push/pulls you mentioned sound very interesting though, I'm not familiar with two of them

Glad it was helpful!

You're welcome!

Thank you! The technique itself is pretty limited as far as the amount of speeds you can achieve with it. Like someone in another comment mentioned, it technically isn't a push-pull but more of a finger technique. And because the fingers are such small muscles it's difficult to get a wide range of tempos -- the technique in this video is just good for trying to get as-fast-as-possible single strokes. Kinda like how with a basketball, there's a very limited range of speeds you can dribble before you get too slow and lose the rhythm. I would recommend trying to get two bounces in a row --- thumb, index --- and not worrying about the speed. Then try to get four like I mentioned int he video --- thumb, index, thumb, index. Again don't worry about speed. It didn't take me very long to develop the technique but I also didn't necessarily try to play it slow. Again like the basketball analogy, when someone learns to dribble they don't try to dribble at a certain speed but instead just try to dribble period. As for pulsing with accents, I haven't tried that, because it's hard to accent with only finger strength. You could mix some wrist-strokes in there though.

I was talking more about moving around the toms or applying the pattern to get faster fills. Buddy Rich's technique is slightly different than the one shown here and as far as I've seen, his left hand remains on the snare drum when he's using the method.

@@nickmonticello True. He keeps it on the snare.

@@zachary813plus a lot of the time he just wrists it out, which makes me want to give up even more lmao

I think that song intro has a speed that can be either muscled-out or you could use the technique. Since the measure is all snare drum it'd be a good place to practice it

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I thought about doing the matched grip technique but I saw there's a lot of videos explaining that one, so I held off on that for this video. Thank you for the sub!

@nickmonticello valid reason! I probably could never do traditional, and definitely not this technique due to an injury and recovering from my 3rd hand surgery. BUT I thought it was really cool. I have to settle in and understand I will never be a fast drummer, and just enjoy playing my style!

You’re welcome, I’m glad you found it helpful. Left hand index finger is tough for sure and it’s much easier to play it on a pad/tight drumhead. Practicing on a pillow helped me a lot in general

Making slow progress on that left hand. Thanks again. At the moment I'm particularly interested in how it seems to be helping me work toward a cleaner left hand part for five consecutive strokes in the Wilcoxon solo Paradiddle Johnny.

I looked it up after seeing your comment, I guess I forgot he had done them before