This is the concept of Natural Sticking

[@Doc2rjae07]

Understanding the metronome and applying them with hand development 🙏🏾💯

[@ronaldgabrieljuan8624]

Hey sir can you make a vid about your grip(marching style)? I noticed that your hands/grip are super efficient. Maximizing power while conserving energy❤

[@DrumTipTuesday]

That is a fantastic idea! Thank you

[@dinospumoni5611]

This is how I've always played, but tbh I think "unnatural" sticking often is just better, if harder. Like the 3-note pattern you were playing (RLR RLR RLR RLR), the pattern's tempo is fundamentally limited by the speed at which you can play singles with one hand (in this case the right hand is playing straight singles the whole pattern). If you play it "unnaturally" (RLR LRL RLR LRL) the max speed you can play it is far, far higher (pretty much the limit is how fast you can play _doubles_ with one hand). I think like you said this is useful mainly for drumline just cause of the visual aspect and so it's easy to teach everyone the same sticking. Plus if you're playing slower stuff it's arguably just easier.

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Thank you you for paying attention to the video, giving it thought and contributing a constructive comment. This is the kind of thing I want in the comment section. I hope mare people who see this video contribute to this thread.

[@Acbar31]

Thanks for doing these, I appreciate everything you're sharing

[@DrumTipTuesday]

You're very welcome and I'm glad you like it!

[@DrumTipTuesday]

OOOps! I just noticed that in the written examples, variation three is noted incorrectly. But I do say and play it right, it is always RL L RL L RL L RL L

[@HuckFinn212]

Gooood stuff!

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Thank you! It's good to review the basics occasionally.

[@DRUMXRZ]

Great concept... vey helpful...

[@DrumTipTuesday]

It's a nice trick for getting your sticking together.

[@sterlingpratt4901]

The most complex thing about developing chops and hands for me so far has got to be the application of orchestration. I tend to learn chops as like, almost a drum trick rather than an overarching mastery of a concept that I can then apply in different scenarios. I do have those things in other regards, now I guess it's just a matter of drilling as many variations of the fills I know as possible until I develop the familiarity with the different voicings I have available and what I can do with them.

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Something you can do with this exercise is put a kick in every time there is a rest, and move the hands around the toms to find some combinations that sound cool. Sometimes doing something a little "off the wall" like that can stimulate creativity if you are bored with your current orchestration routines.

[@kevinfoster6023]

A lesson on hand and foot techniques either using the content of this example or other would b cool.Keep it comin gabriel🥁🇦🇺

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Next week I'm going to face my fear with a drum solo, but after that there will be some hand a foot combos coming.

[@klank67]

Please throw in some hand/foot exercises! Thanks Gabriel

[@trusarmor4957]

so my right hand ... and my Other hand ...GOT it 😆😆😆

[@DrumTipTuesday]

It's kind of a basic lesson but I still rely on this kind of thing as a sort of "default" way of managing drum fills.