Yes! I've been saying this for years. In the beginning, drummers said "weak" hand to mean that it was lacking in skill. That's one of the dictionary definitions of "weak". The weak hand does not lack strength!

Excellent, Brad. I'll put your suggestions into practice and work on improving my incompetent hand's competence. Cheers.

I have trouble with left hand diddles. Using my right to "teach" my left has helped a lot. Like you said your strong hand is simply more coordinated. The other needs time and practice to catch up. The term "weak hand" is probably not a literal reference to hand strength but rather a performance deficiency.

Hi Brad , thank you for uploading your vids - do you have a vid on traditional grip double strokes - struggling to get even double strokes with left hand traditional grip - many thanks cheers

I'm right handed, but I do some things (playing the drums using a matched grip and ice hockey) left-handed. No idea why. Further complicating this, I have a twin brother who is exclusively right-handed. That being the case, I've never had any "weak hand" issues.

What if it's more of a "weaker of the two" thing?

I play matched, but after 44 years of it, I’m trying to learn traditional. Definitely struggling with it!

Thanks - I play mostly traditionel grip :D

Great stuff Brad! …Appreciate the tips & examples, Thanks!

Super clear and helpful teaching! Thanks Brad

I actually learned them both since my foundation of drumming was based on 18th and 19th century Military snare drumming..

Did you serve in the 3rd Infantry Regiment....The Old Guard?

I'm struggling to get a flam to work on my ekit

Thanks Brad nice ideas 👍👍👏👏

Thanks Brad, I must ask what this pattern is. RLRRLRRLRLLRLL. Is it a double paradiddle also. Thanks

I've seen paradiddles written with a small grace note before the LRLL etc. Sort of a run up...Is that the reasoning?

I already know those rudiments all very well. Only trouble is I have the most miserable left hand on Earth, lol. My left hand is like a galley slave who has been chained to an oar, and whipping him harder can't make him row any faster. All the instruction, preaching and reverse engineered gimmicks guaranteed to give results "practically overnight' or "in no time at all" can't reach him either. Don't talk to me because I've already heard it all. Talk to the hand. It won't listen to me. The only thing it respects is brute force. Thousands upon thousands of hours of grinding. It never attains warm-up. It goes straight to fatigue and struggle. "Slow it down" they say. If it got any slower it would be going backwards. I've been slowing it down for almost 45 years now. Tell me, when does it start speeding up? One good thing, there is no quit in me (yet). I will grind that left hand every single night and the next morning it will wake up with its fingers curled in a loose fist like the legs of a dead spider and I will have to use the other hand to unravel it. It does show some small progress though, and that's the only thing that keeps me going. After a whole year of grinding, there is a tiny smidgen of progress. 2 steps forward, 3 steps back, and at the end of the year it seems a tiny bit better. Grinding ... I haven't played any music at all in over a decade because all I ever do is grind now. After about 25 more years of daily grinding, (when I turn 90), at the present rate I should be passably good by then, lol. Hopefully then I can resume playing.

Thanks for the video Brad, can you give some exercises for Buzz roll? Like within a groove, a pattern where you can practice

haven't watched yet but guessing single stroke, double stroke, paradiddle, & ... i got only three.

I'm a former US Navy musician and I appreciate your thoughts re: rudiments. However, I have lately kind of evolved to a different way of approaching playing on the set. It has to do with Stick Control #33...rlrr lrrl or reverse for LH lead. This paradiddle hybrid, played as 16th notes, has transformed my drum life (roughly between 70-120 bpm). It can be played as even beat, shuffle or the 2nd L can be accented as the One Drop in Reggae. IMO, it's easy to execute (even by a toddler playing hands on a table top) and, on the set, you have instantaneous 'flow' because of the magical way that the sticking works. So...if we're talking in terms of a newbie starting with #33 and easily develops flow (and confidence) on the set and then combine that ability with rudimental study, seems like you would end up with the best of two worlds.

Hey Brad, how about the Blushda? Gotta love it.

64 years old. 2 years retired. I had an Alesis Edrum kit for 2 years an unloaded it for a Guitar Center SPL velocity kit with BIRCH shells. Switched out the batter and resonance head's and Wa Lah...generic Yamaha stage customs. ( wish list). Amazing how good these $434.00 shells are with excellent heads and drum dial tuning. I started lessons 1 year ago, and progressing depends on time playing kit. A top rated kit will not make a drummer out of Joe shmo from Idaho, but.... a good drummer can make most kits sing. If you google " Is drumming beneficial for a senior"? You will be amazed how beneficial it is. Ekit did not work for myself but can be beneficial in a lack of space area or low volume drumming. Producing utube videos is a completely different animal than just drumming but we are ever so thankful for individuals that have that talent and comprehension of production. My instructor at Guitar Center is a female and quite well versed in drums, guitar, bass, and ukulele. Thank the Lord for female drum teachers who can deal with us.! Hallelujah 😁

Is this a good starter set up? Yamaha SBP2F50 Stage Custom Drum Shell Kit, 5-Piece + Zildjian S Family Zildjian S Dark 4-piece Cymbal Pack

I started at 60. Bought a set and just play for fun.

its a sarcastic comment but to some extent true that i grew up into and adult after i quit the music scene. for me the whole thing was the other way round . the music scene is infantile and smarmy with childish behavior. as one of my Lead Pickers who i hired frequently said. " no one wants to listen to a bunch of old men play tunes that were old before the audience was born" a bit harsh but there is truth in it i would say i dont want to be that old musician up there on replay. not knocking it and get it on ! baby. its a lo ng road starting late. but you can do it. hardest part is breaking into the scene. most of the older cats have good drummers and the kids dont want duffers in the band

Drums are fun. How do I know? Been playing over 30 years.

I’d like to start, just to have fun, make some noise! Really like the concept of snare, hi hat and kick. Any thoughts?

And here I was thinking that this will be a really short video. I'm so glad to hear there is hope for us ol folk still. I inherited a rusty old kit several weeks back and was wondering if this could help stave off dementia and keep me a little fit - comments suggest this could be great , so thumbs up. I tried out my acoustic drums but they are way too loud for where I live. The urge to play them every time I walked past the kit is overwhelming, so I've bought a cheap practice pad and have been trying to start teaching myself. So, learning how to hold sticks and play singles and doubles. I'm only a few days in, and still horrible with the left hand (and little less horrible on the right) and wonder if I can ever achieve the seemingly impossible task of coordinated kick drum, snare and hi-hats all at once making a decent beat .... Well, I'm going to keep at it - so far I'm discovering that even bashing out rubbish beats on the practice pad is quite satisfying too. thanks for the motivation :)

I've played at school. Picked up again some 30 years later. There's the noise problem, so, I got me edrums under the pandemic, but hated them.

I started 3 months ago and I love the process of learning ), I'm almost 49 )

I started at age 60. Since I plan on living to be over a 100 - and hopefully still drumming to the end, like Viola Davis ! - I'm hoping I still have time to reach a good level of competence. But even if not, learning an instrument late in life is good for preventing dementia, and playing with other people is good for having a social life as you get older. I've been playing for 2 years now, and I'm playing in two bands that are out gigging in our local area! Have met great people, getting out of the house, have something I love to focus on every day and learning something new. There's no down side.

I started drumming at 47. My son went off to college and his drum set was just sitting. I was playing Rockband one night and wondered if the scroll actually worked on drums. It does!! I'm 54 now and play 5-8 hrs a week. it's amazing exercise and a ton of fun. As the years have gone by, I find myself picking out drum tracks while listening to music and really starting to get into the instrument.. I'm not looking for a band or anything, just love music and am having a blast playing.

I'm 43 and I've been learning for 1 year now.

I'm 68 and mess around with guitars but still like to learn drums, I have a snare drum but too loud and have a few practice pads that I play with, my desire is learning military type marches on the snare.

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I played as a kid for a few years, then because of a back injury at age 17 a 50-year break. At age 66 I had spinal fusion surgery and was in a brace for a year. At 67 right before seeing my doctor I saw a video on a morning news show and they asked a physical therapist "What do you recommend for that retired person that doesn't play golf or tennis and hates going to the gym?" "I recommend they take up the drums. Great exercise of all four limbs, helps with coordination and dexterity plus you get to listen and play to all that great music you grew up with." I asked my doctor and she thought it was a fantastic idea. I first got a used acoustic kit. Was fine because we lived in the country and could make all the noise I wanted. Nine months ago we moved into a 55+ community in Arizona and switched to an electronic kit. If you haven't bought a kit I highly recommend getting an electric one. Why? 1. Privacy. 2. Easy of recording yourself. My neighbor introduced me to Cakewalk. I download from KZbin videos the audio of favorite songs, use FADR to split out the stems (drums, bass, vocals, other) then record myself and replace the drum track. Not only is it a lot of fun, but to visually see every original drum and cymbal hit for when you are recording yourself and comparing your timing to the original drum track is a fantastic teaching tool. Better than any metronome or click track. I've been playing just over two years. I play with many friends in the community and across the country and we never leave our homes. We do what I mentioned above, I replace the drums, others replace / email me the other instruments and vocals and we end up with a full replacement. Highly support what Brad is saying / recommending as I've lived it. About to turn 70 and having a blast. Mark

kick sounds great. Nice video

very helpful 👍

Before I watch this I'll comment. I've been learning for about 1 year now. Some times I get a good amount of playing time in and sometimes I go weeks without playing. Somedays I absolutely love playing the drums and somedays I think I'm terrible and want to quit. It's like a roller-coaster ride haha. I'll learn something new and I'll be jamming out having fun. Then 3 days later I can't remember how to play anything. It's frustrating! I'm sure everyone goes through this tho. One thing I know is I need to work on where I'm at in a song. Let's say I have a simple drum beat for 7 bars and want to add a fill on the 8th I have a hard time counting those bars. Then when I do I completely fall apart on the fill.

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I'm going to give these exercises a try ... Thanks!

I am using the Sabian Quiet Tone which I think is similar to the Remo, but it is a wider diameter. Completely agree with you on the rubber pads.

Thanks a lot Brad. A simple plan for practice time and some fun groove ideas are very helpful to my drumming goals.

Thank you so much for the video and that helped me surprise my drum teacher

Like your content. Thank you for sharing. Subscribed 👍🏻

Intersesting. Never seen it before. I will try this 👍🥁👍

go to check out Italian drummer Riccardo Merlini. that's the way!

I gotta say, i used to think drummers are, you know, just drunmers... nothing else. Boy, they have been so under appreciated in my radar!! I've recently gotten back into practicing music after years of touching nothing, so I decided to venture into the popular land-- KZbin-- for some rythm exercises. Boy, I am so glad I did. Man, long story short, turns out... drumers are well decorated machined!!! Period. Hats off. Then, of course, DOMi and DJ Beck started to pop up in my feed, which got me so gung-ho and excited even more. What a thrill to see some of the most well decorated machine duo in this generation!! Thank you sir for taking the time to help improve and enrich other drummers.❤

I did study with Mr Morello, my favorite grip is traditional however I get this crazy Neck problem! I think it's best because the stick lays in the cradle! I love to see Buddy just dance with that left hand! To the grip tried Murray Spivak technique but now have gone back to index and thumb grip! The stick seems to move more freely with control!

What a surprise!!! I have Joe Morello and Roger Taylor tattooed on my arm. In the future I intend to add a few more to the group. How cool to find a reference to this great drummer and especially congratulations and thank you for the class!!!!