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Rudy,
Thanks for the codec link. It worked.
When you snap the stick back, let it fly all the way back in your hand. As the stick travels back, all of the fingers should be pointing straight down. The middle finger does not stay curled around the stick during this phase of the stroke.
This is the first step in learning Dave's masterful technique.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sorry for not reply earlier but i just check this thread once before it goes on techniqueQuote:
Originally posted by Rudy_Ment:
Alright, I've done another video. Am I doing it basically right? Donu, Andy, what do you think?
There's a better view in the last bit of the clip as I face the camera.
Thanks in advance for any advice. Lemme know if there's a problem with opening the clip.
http://jamesseph.phpwebhosting.com/DRuM's%20Stuff/weckl%20grip.avi
Seeing you vid i think you really don't allow the stick to move freely, i think you hit the stick a little too hard ( first part of you vid at least) and if you allowed the stick to really move freely the stick maybe fall on the floor, i think this fear of the stick fall is what block us at the begining, after practicing a lot with this DVD i understand that when i was not able to play correctly it was Not because i didn't had enough rebound but because i had too much rebound !!
I had unconscious reflex to tense fingers because of the fear that my stick fall, and now i'll definitelly said that when you start to use this technique if you stick never fall you don't practice it correctly
I think you should mix exercise 1 with the next one( hitting on pad and let fully rebound )
The example of basket ball is perfect, what i do to make me feel that was with the pad, use the second finger but remove the thumb and all others finger and with my left hand dribble with the head of the stick just like wiht a basket ball [img]wink.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Do you mean finger control with palm down ?Quote:
Originally posted by T Simon:
To be honest, I don't actually know what happens as you begin to play faster. Does the second finger remain motionless, and all finger action come from the last two fingers? Or does the middle finger 'help' with the rebound? Like I said - I don't know, but when I do play faster, it just happens and it's relaxed, so I'm not fussed.
Thanks donu. Also in my video, it looks as though I'm moving my left hand before it's been struck. Must have been unconsciouly doing that.
I guess I need to hold it 'super loose' then and see if it flys out of my hand, which it has done once or twice recently. Was hard to know just how loose to hold it.
Weckle was prob a typo.
[I tend to call him, "Wreckl."] ;c)
I tend to have the thumb a little closer [in relation] to where the first finger sets on the stick [RH - "matched"], a little less of an exaggerated "triangle," but close to DW's method...almost directly parallel in relation to it, w the 2nd finger a little bit back further...& i also tend to go somewhere between a French grip & DW/FG's grip at any given time...
At any rate, he's always been 1 of the "conceptual kings," regardless of the "old" or "new" DW hand technique... [img]cool.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ April 23, 2005 02:43 PM: Message edited by: got_a_matchgrip? ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Loose Just enough to not let stick fall (it will fall at begining) Not moreQuote:
Originally posted by Rudy_Ment:
I guess I need to hold it 'super loose' then and see if it flys out of my hand, which it has done once or twice recently. Was hard to know just how loose to hold it.