This but just me looking like an A-hole This is a long one. This is what happens every time the subject of “open handed” drumming is raised online— a kind of church revival of drumming […]
Category: handedness
Hand dominance: still bull
Advertising a belief. Yes, hand dominance is still bull. At least with regard to drumming. It happened again this week: a new student, right handed, who had never hit a drum before, automatically led everything […]
Izquierdadiddles
Tenue des baguettes I’ve got 6 hours of driving to do a 90 minute gig today, gang, so I’m going to leave you with this: I spend a good part of my life singing stickings […]
Lead hand
From Mike Clark’s Twitter feed, a graphic illustration of what I mean when I talk about a lead hand, or mention the drums being a predominantly right-handed instrument: This is how I played before I […]
A quick rant and etymological aside
La mano dall’inferno OK, I want everybody stop saying “dominant” hand, “weaker” hand— anything like that, as if it’s a thing. It’s not a thing. None of your drumming abilities are dictated by the hand you […]
Handedness is dubious
Granted, we may have gone overboard in the past… There’s a long blog post called Teaching Lefty Drummers, written by Illinois percussionist, drummer, and teacher Don Skoog, about the importance of handedness in drumming. I’ve […]