Solve your WEAK hand in 3 steps

[@sadraatrkarrowshan6949]

Super wise lesson, as always. Thank you Stephen.

[@guteggg]

For me worked this tip from my teacher: Play simple beat right hand only - snare on 1 and 4, all other 8 notes on hihat But with the left play doubles on snare between right hand. This just unlocked my left hand after few days.

[@THELAZYDRUMMMER117]

Thanks for making this video I've been struggling with my weak hand for ages now

[@gumobe55]

3rd reply from Owen. I have recognised that 10 to 15 minutes on a task per day 4 days per week, is far better than 2-3 mpd 2 days/week. Secondly, the biggest help 😅towards moving forward getting specific help for my weak hand.

[@paradiddle5150]

Walk This Way 🤘

[@zackl3094]

I first picked up sticks about a month and a half ago. I've been beating this practice pad almost daily, and for as much time each day as I can physically dedicate to it. That said, I didn't really unlock what seems to me about the full potential of my off hand until yesterday. What finally got me there was a couple of things I think. First off, I've been doing a lot of what this video suggests regarding slowing down, watching each hand and making sure they are doing the same thing. Insanely slow rebound doubles, full rebound singles, free rebound exercises, all the stuff you've taught in all your other videos. But what really got it to click was trying to learn paradiddles and some of the variations, particularly the paradiddle-diddle. A regular paradiddle is pretty good because it works left and right pretty equally, but paradiddle-diddles are hand biased. They're either left or right hand lead. It took me a couple days to get regular paradiddles going. Not just the pattern, single followed by double, but the dynamics and the spacing and all that. I hard focused on that until I could accent that single, ghost the other hand, nice smooth double, repeat on the other side. Couple days of that and I've got paradiddles down. OK. Paradiddle-diddle time. And then my left hand was like nah I don't need this. Few more days of that and now my left hand is about as even as I think it can get. I probably should have mentioned I've got some issues in my left hand that means it simply can't quite do what the right one can. This is why I had to give up guitar. My left pinky is unresponsive. Nerve damage. It doesn't do much at all. Guitar players, you'll know this is huge. Need that one to fret quite a bit. Drums? It can hang off to the side outta the way and no worries. The rest works mostly OK. So a little bit of balance and a LOT of practice loosening up my hands over the past month and a half all to get to where I am today, which is: comfortable even and controlled singles and doubles on either hand at any dynamic, up to whatever my current max speed is - not very fast I have not really begun working on that yet.

[@LordBaktor]

Kudos for having the patience to work on all the important stuff before going for speed. When I was a teenager and could rely on adrenaline I always went for speed first. It took me getting into my late thirties (and the adrenaline to stop doing the trick) to go back to basics and start fixing my technique. I am in no way finished with that process and I am already almost as fast as I used to be when I was 20 but relaxed, controlled and without the risk of injury.

[@Frank1979Zappa]

Respect for your discipline and how clear and focused you are in your approach. I've been playing drums for 40 years, even studied music, but maybe the only time I practiced with as much structure as you did in your first six weeks was when I was a music student. Good luck and I think you will go far. LRLLRR LRLLRR L

[@Frank1979Zappa]

@@zackl3094 That sounds wise. Where are you from?

[@miker5233]

I'll tell you this guy is good all of us are getting fed good drum skills it would be nice one day if you could do a clinic and maybe a music store

[@johnrobinson8323]

Thanks Stephen! Your practical advice has been a game changer for me. Can't thank you enough. 🥁❤️

[@LordBaktor]

I had an unusual start on drums. I'm left-handed, but I learned drums the right-handed way (the drumkit I was allowed to practice on was set up that way) so I've never suffered from an obvious weak hand. I did go through the experience of having a weak limb once I got a double pedal and started using my left foot and I'm still working on getting it up to the same standard as the right foot.

[@rsi2493]

When I first joined the drum line as a freshman, the lead quad player was left handed so I had to learn left hand lead. I did everything left handed to help balance. Now 40 years later, I'm still an ambidextrous eater 😊. I don't switch fork and knife back and forth. Brushing your teeth with the weak hand can be a bloody experience but it all helps.

[@jandrogarcia1641]

Thanks Stephen!

[@NzubechukwuKenneth-qp6qt]

Thank you so much sir for this wanderful tutorials

[@Cloud_Strife_19]

Thanks for the lesson. It would be nice to have some lesson about stick control around the kit, like sextuplet single rolls on snare to rack tom to floor tom.

[@aubreyleedrums]

I’ve been playing for about two years and still have a lagging left hand. The most effective practice so far has been going through the first 5 or so pages of Stick Control- left hand lead. But here I am, so I’ve not eliminated the issue. Thanks for this lesson 👍

[@LordBaktor]

I "woke up" my left foot (double bass) by doing exercises where the left foot "played the role" of the leading hand. Singles with left foot and left hand or left foot and right hand, doubles, etc. Without the right foot to imitate, my left foot had to figure stuff out on it's own and it helped a lot. Maybe taking the right hand out of the equation and doing left hand lead with one of your feet following can help you.

[@pimpernel666]

Something that helped me with my weak hand was slowing down “Misfit Love” by Queens of the Stone Age and working that beat. Joey Castillo keeps time with left hand (my weak hand) on the HH and moves right hand around the toms and snare.

[@hayden3928]

Yoo! Such an amazing song and amazing album! Joey is a beast of a drummer.

[@Zod_JB]

What do you do to stop your hands from traveling up the stick?

[@Spladoinkal]

I have a question that's been eating away at me with all the practice. How long are we supposed to practice? When weight lifting, you gain strength by pushing your muscles to the point they break down, then when they recover, they recover a little stronger than last time. I could do the same thing when practicing drum exercises but everyone also says that we need to stay away from tension, which would be inevitable if you're practicing to the point of fatigue. But then I hear people talking about practicing these exercises daily, and of course that's something you can't do if you're trying to build muscle because when you break muscle down, you need to allow recovery to get stronger (or faster in the case of drumming). Am I missing something or am I doing things the correct way of practicing to fatigue then taking a few days off of chop building?

[@Cloak07]

If you are practicing co ordination,then even 15 minutes of quality practice and you can make great progress. If you are training for endurance,you can treat it similarly to muscle building. Bottom line , practicing till fatigue doesn't do anything special, unless you are practicing for endurance.

[@pimpernel666]

There is a difference between practicing chops and practicing playing. Chops, develop at intervals - beginner, intermediate, advanced. Stephen gives that example of 10, 20, 30. Call those your levels. Practicing playing - can you play through a favorite album? Maybe turn that into a rubric.

[@360.Tapestry]

you are developing stamina and speed with wooden rods, not sculpting chunky forearms and hands with five-pound bars. but more important than that, you're developing a body-mind connection and a skill. and if you're using proper technique, it would take you hours to drill these to failure. i don't think comparing it to weightlifting is a helpful way of looking at it. i'd compare it more to learning a dance or learning a martial arts technique, where you learn the 1-2-3-4, step-by-step mechanics in excruciating detail, go through the steps slowly until you have the right form and sequence, and then drill it multiple times at the right tempo until you're proficient - it's basically how you get good at anything. while muscle development does play a part, the real reason for a "weak" hand is related more so to being untrained, undertrained, or improperly trained

[@zackl3094]

@@360.Tapestry agreed. I am a new drummer, but over the past month and a half I've been practicing as close to daily as I can get and as much time as I can dedicate to it each day. When I first got started fatigue failure was predictable and ever present. Now? I stop when I get bored or need to do something else. A good bit of that was Rob Brown's 20 minute doubles video. I made it a point to be able to complete that. Now? I'm not quite so sure how long I could go for if I really had to, but it's certainly more than 20 minutes. My hands have gotten stronger, yes, and my arms and chest and core and blah...but the endurance is what's improved more than anything I think.

[@360.Tapestry]

​@@zackl3094 since you're already excelling with that, you should check out rob's other 20 minute video on triplets. it'll gently introduce you to the practice of leading with alternating hands without being too overwhelming - it's a helpful skill to have in the event you have to do a quick turnaround to the far side of the kit for the next hit or if you drop a stick and need to continue leading with your non-dominant hand

[@curtpriestley2107]

One thing I'm really trying to do now (5 years in) is a try to COUNT everything while I'm playing. 1e+a 2e+a ..... Its so hard to count because you naturally only want to count what your doing... and many times, unless if wrote it out and broke down a song before hand... I'm wrong

[@fernandopiovesana]

I came to notice recently that my strong hand had a german grip and the weak hand an american grip. I struggle with doubles to sound super natural and fast tempos, although it's decent... could changing to german improve it?

[@LordBaktor]

People who play traditional achieve smooth rolls with different grips on each hand, so it shouldn't be a factor, but try and see if it works for you.

[@J......F-q1c]

So. Train both hands to do the same thing tapping a pad, makes sense!!!!!!!!! Plus all videos of you actually playing do not display what you are showing, whether a person has a weak hand or not they can actually still make good drummers, tapping a pad to train both hands i believe is not the way.