Drum lesson - How to twirl a drum stick! Not essential when learning drums but a bit of fun!

Every drummer at some stage wants to know how to twirl a stick. So here is a VERY quick lesson on how I do it! Enjoy!
Also... make sure you concentrate more on your playing then on twirling. The most important thing is your sound, timing and groove, Only twirl when it wont distract from you being a solid drummer :)

[@johnnystrong7275]

I do it a little bit different. I was taught by a martial artist back in the late 70s to hold my hand to the side.. using the technique with the stick between the fingers rotating , also at the same time my wrist and a waving in circular motion. Which allows the stick to rotate faster and more powerful. With more control

[@CiaraDrums]

How cool!

[@jwwright7622]

you are Beautiful. I've played professionally since I was 15 in 1968. I am now 70 this July. it was always fascinating to see a drummer twirl their sticks, and never figured it out. thank you very much for showing me the trick!! although I have Stage 4 cancer now, I still want to learn this before I leave this world.

[@CiaraDrums]

Thank you for such a thoughtful comment 🙏🏻 I would love to know how you get on with learning this. Hope drumming can bring you joy when things are challenging ❤️

[@joaopedrosousa2513]

How sweet of you to share this. I always wanted to know this. Thank you so much!

[@CiaraDrums]

My pleasure 🙌🏻

[@August_Hall]

I guess I have no excuse to not learn this with such a good explanation.

[@CiaraDrums]

Ahhh glad it was helpful

[@animexanimes6223]

ok this is so difficult!! idk why i’ve tried this like 20 times!!

[@THE_PATMAN_87]

First off beautiful blues 💙 and rad I'm a guitarist and I've always wanted to know the mechanics thanks! Keep up the Rock sister!

[@snjser]

That's so cute from you sharing this...awesome!!!

[@CiaraDrums]

No worries 🙌🏻

[@zacharyjohnson7096]

Thank you for actually being a really talented drummer and not one of those "lady's" that dress skimpy for views. You're truly amazing!!!

[@CiaraDrums]

Thanks for the kind words! I have two daughters and whilst drummers can wear whatever they want I would like my girls to know that what matters most is your character and not what you look like ;)

[@jamesjoseph1449_]

Yeah i know what you mean, this video is so underrated. Yet, i always see those "lady's" that wear little clothing and play very basic beats but get thousands and thousands of likes.

[@guytalbot9427]

and now we know ❤️🇨🇦

[@CiaraDrums]

Woop 🥳

[@MrShenanigans28]

I genuinely thought they were like... Spinning the drumstick over fingers in between other fingers lol. I had no idea the stick just stays between your index of middle finger, so it doesn't actually do a 360 spin. You learn something new everyday

[@zackyjacky2078]

Very cool! Awesome tutorial! As long as you don’t drop it or poke your eye 💜💜💜

[@CiaraDrums]

Absolutely!!

[@mariafaulkner6517]

FINALLY! A stick trick I am actually able to do!!!

[@LOUIS-np6be]

WOW THANKS

[@CiaraDrums]

Glad you like 👍🏻

[@7628739]

Only person to show this , I will now practice

[@CiaraDrums]

Let me know how it goes

[@justsomeguy727]

I don't play drums but this has now given me something to do with my pen in class. Thanks random KZbin algorithm recommendations!

[@CiaraDrums]

Happy to help! 😆

[@salomerichta8489]

Thank you so much for this tutorial ❤❤🫶🏻🫶🏻🩷🤘

[@CiaraDrums]

My pleasure 😊

[@user-ht6sg1mu5b]

Thank you for this I can do it a little bit so thank you so much 😮😊🥹

[@manjulabandara4442]

Thank u love ❤💚

[@louismartinez7634]

I love this I've been trying to learn this for alonl time

[@CiaraDrums]

Hope it helps :)

[@stephenbradford1971]

I go the other direction from you and I have always loved using this trick when playing fills into crash and back to main beat.

[@CiaraDrums]

Nice!!!

[@michaelgallegos8811]

Awe thank u for sharing this..😃❤️

[@CiaraDrums]

Any time! 🙌🏻

[@Daniel-pk5wv]

This really helps! Pointing out how you move your indexfinger in circles did it for me :D

[@zionicnight5306]

shoot pin spining technics came in handy for me

[@emmersonpiovezani1557]

EMMERSON DE LAGOA DOURADA - BRASIL THANK YOU . Fantástico . Muito obrigado

[@CiaraDrums]

Thank YOU

[@Ilikedrumsxd]

Its so cool! Thx for tutorial and u look like Skylar from breaking bad

[@frankjones4357]

Thank you 🙂

[@CiaraDrums]

Glad it’s helpful

[@danielweber1952]

I’ve played since I was 5. I’m 71. I don’t want to twirl. Time better spent practicing drum techniques. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.🥁🎶

[@Izzfresh_yt]

Wow that's quite a lot of Manhattan drum sticks in the background 😂😊

[@mikebrown1052]

Thanks For The Freebie ! ! ! !

[@CiaraDrums]

You’re welcome 🙌🏻

[@Noodles_5]

Very good nice Lady. Pretty and smart. Like this combination. 😂👍

[@BillyBob-bc6uk]

😂 I just hit myself in the eye!!

[@wishwinnerosc.]

I done that a little bit. But very good

[@bjornleifeld4442]

Cool. Thank you! I Always wanted to know exactly how it's working. One Thing more to impress the Chicks with. Lol! Bye and have a good time!!!

[@CiaraDrums]

🤣 you’re welcome

[@TITIA75-]

EXCELLENT . THANKS YOU SO MUCH 🤩🤩🤩🤘🤘🤘❤❤🙏😇

[@CiaraDrums]

You're welcome 😊

[@richardhancock2771]

I am a drummer and can do this learnt this of my dad as he was, a fully professional drummer... As anybody heard of the star tones drums.. Trumpet.. Electerbox Norman. Harry.. John...

[@CiaraDrums]

Nice one!!

[@louiscampbell1416]

Very informative

[@CiaraDrums]

Glad you think so!

[@czech-street-workout4193]

Nice 💪

[@mukeshravat2151]

Amazing..Thank you🙏😍💐

[@CiaraDrums]

You're welcome 😊

[@jakabgipsz3922]

Cool! :)

[@702ringo1]

Thank you 💋❤️

[@CiaraDrums]

You’re welcome

[@astromandomine14]

It's a revelation. I had it wrong for so long

[@CiaraDrums]

Ahh apparently I’m spinning it the opposite way to most 😅🙈

[@astromandomine14]

At full speed it looks like the stick rotates around the index finger. The drummers union will be so upset

[@CiaraDrums]

Sssh! Don’t tell them 😉😆

[@vimalv1347]

Awesome

[@CiaraDrums]

Thanks!

[@upulsanthaupulsantha9665]

Thank you

[@CiaraDrums]

My pleasure 🙌🏻

[@raab261]

I’m about to buy my first drum set. So this is a must learn before I know how to play. Gotta look like a drummer before I become a drummer.

[@CiaraDrums]

🤣

[@josemariamartinezgarcia4060]

you don´t need a drumset to do this trick. You only need a pair of drumsticks.

[@Rnmendoza25]

Cool

[@peterpetrov7073]

Thanks for pointing out how humongous my hands look 🥲 Got the same sticks and they look like 7a in my hands

[@CiaraDrums]

🤣 maybe it’s my hands that look stupidly small?!

[@BillSmith-rx9rm]

So when you see a drummer doing this, they are not really spinning the stick. It is just an optical delusion. LOL

[@CiaraDrums]

I know!! I couldn’t believe it when I found out

[@late6812]

And all these years I've been doing it the hard way😅

[@AlilCompany]

Omg my finger gamers gotta improve after an hour of this this😢

[@eggmooi2797]

Are you perfectly balancing the stick with your hand/wrist while you twirl or do you grip it so it can’t slip/slide? I can only do it when it’s perfectly balanced and it takes like 4-5 twirls before it starts sliding :(. Wondering if it’s my grip that’s too firm or too loose or the position of my hand/wrist.

[@CiaraDrums]

I have a good grip with my fingers so it doesn’t slip :)

[@alexgolovchenko3791]

Great tutorial! You're very, very good. Even though I've perfected my tricks over the years I've always refrained from using them on stage during gigs. I feel it's too much of a distraction for the audience and takes away from the music at hand. Not to mention, there is nothing more embarrassing than dropping a stick while unnecessarily showing off. I just stick to the basics, so to speak, and do the job. All due respect, just my opinion.😊

[@CiaraDrums]

Oh totally :) I don’t do them that much anymore, just a bit of fun really ;)

[@gman4699]

I like how she edged that stick

[@CiaraDrums]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jwrobinson812]

Thank you dear 😢Wes

[@CiaraDrums]

🙏🏻

[@jwrobinson812]

@@CiaraDrums wink wink 😉 Wes

[@redfin382]

Is the stick actually moving around your finger? Or does it just appear to.

[@CiaraDrums]

It just appears that way :) it’s an illusion

[@BillSmith-rx9rm]

Damn, I like the way she can manipulate her fingers.

[@CiaraDrums]

🤣

[@scalawagsco.8525]

🎉🎉

[@CiaraDrums]

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@danashay]

Fascinating. Where else you gonna get this? I better subscribe, please carry on!

[@CiaraDrums]

Thanks 🙏🏻 🙌🏻

[@shawnsbs5970]

Okay the Drummers from the south are the best look it up Sonny Emory we grew up with the Best in the world I'm a Musician professionally from Atlanta

[@jamesbubba1331]

Ciara I tried but I poked my eyeball out! it's, ok doc says stitches can come out next week. more how twos plez

[@CiaraDrums]

🤣🤣🤣 I may have done that too James!!

[@bluestardust1365]

I have a feeling you are an accomplished drummer too... but I viewed this vid several times just to see your face.

[@CiaraDrums]

Haha thanks

[@documentaryvideo29]

😊😊

[@documentaryvideo29]

😊😊🇮🇩

[@OFLHLGZ28]

Love Vater

[@CiaraDrums]

Same here 🙌🏻

[@bhingolacson510]

👍🏼👏🏻✌️🙏🏻

[@erickrohn2970]

So what is the purpose of stick twirling? Lol does make you drum and sound better. Or is it just to show boat?

[@CiaraDrums]

Read the title ;) just a bit of fun

[@M5guitar1]

Whoa double jointed

[@CiaraDrums]

Am I? 😆

[@inoalarcon5953]

🥁👍👊🤘🔥🤘🤘🤘

[@rubenvieyra2754]

Thanks. Il tray it.

[@CiaraDrums]

Let me know how you get on

[@rubenvieyra2754]

@@CiaraDrums ok now Iam in vacation went I get home il try it and I will tell you . Nice name by the way. Italian

[@thomasparks5581]

Thanks I even seventy and I'm just learning how to play drums

[@CiaraDrums]

Ahh that’s fantastic!!!

[@tomblacky3714]

That’s NOT a part time of playing drums

[@danstephensen9032]

It’s easier to go counterclockwise, because you can actually throw it into motion forward instead of the way you are showing. Just saying. I’ve been doing this for 60 years, both hands.

[@CiaraDrums]

Nice one!!! Wish I could do it the other way!! 😅 but I don’t think I can! Need to practice ;)

[@IntonBaylish]

👍

[@CiaraDrums]

🙏🏻

[@drumz47]

You have amazin eyes.

[@peter_flames14]

guys wait i learned it in the other direction help-

[@uniquelloyd8755]

I it my sister

[@Keith-bs6wz]

Koo...I do it forward on the way to a crash before it falls out.

[@CiaraDrums]

Nice

[@Keith-bs6wz]

@@CiaraDrums accually if you are good at the moment its crashing there is just a milla second to let the index finger roll over the stick then you have a open grip again.. use the impact to change the grip on the stick kinda idea. ;)

[@user-ht9fr6eh9u]

hi bluey

[@janushhalt1132]

Now I'm know ... I'm stupid hehe

[@pepitorodriguez6767]

👏👏👏👏💯 🤜🇨🇺🤛

[@CiaraDrums]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@papajohndavid]

Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle

[@CiaraDrums]

🤣

[@logicalnotes5007]

She is way better than John Bonham on drums, damn she’s amazing

[@CiaraDrums]

Don’t joke about John Bonham 😅 he is the GOAT

[@logicalnotes5007]

@@CiaraDrums Yeah, that’s right, the joke was on John not her.

[@CiaraDrums]

@@logicalnotes5007 I am her! ;) Happy drumming 🥁

[@friederikeseipt1880]

That looks so isi

[@joeybaronstudio]

I don’t do much of that

[@dolahdolet7239]

sweetlady when you pink

[@israelanzaldua3953]

If you can’t play a kit what’s the sense

[@CiaraDrums]

Exactly ;) read the title

[@mayesokazembe5880]

You’re beautiful and welcome…….

[@johnnybgood2887]

Hell that looks like cheating. I always thought the stick actually twirled around your index finger lol.

[@CiaraDrums]

I know, me too!! 😱

[@johnnybgood2887]

​@@CiaraDrums Thank you for the video lesson.

[@SuryaMeitei]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@karllager2214]

Funny that everyone twirls stick differently

[@CiaraDrums]

Yes!! I think I twirl the other way to most?!

[@karllager2214]

@@CiaraDrums I use the same motion as you demonstrate. It's useful for strengthening small muscles and I switch between match and traditional by a similar method. Appreciate you. Cheers.

[@TheCthtoNicfLy]

Your opposite of that fake Ringo? Your a right handed drummer playing a left handed kit? He is a left handed drummer trying to play a right handed kit.

[@CiaraDrums]

Nah I just have two sets of hihats ;) I’m right handed and play a right handed kit

[@Outlaw_Man]

Deaf people: 😃 Blind people: 😨

[@bigsavagedaddy5960]

Worst tutorial I’ve ever seen. Thanks 🙏

[@CiaraDrums]

🤣👍🏻

[@williamlucy8008]

I twirl mine palm down..

[@CiaraDrums]

Wow! You can teach me that then because I always drop it that way 😅

[@thomasroy3632]

Thank you

[@CiaraDrums]

🙌🏻🙏🏻👍🏻