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mrhappycow
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7 May 2009
| aghhhh! matched****
Matt the happy cow.
If this band was a person, it would be president. If this band was visual art, it would be the main attraction at Louvre. If this band was a book, it would be holier than the bible.
-METALLICA
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malletjazz3
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7 May 2009
| I guess I qualify as an "old guy" around here, at the ripe old age of 42... 
I started out with traditional grip - my first drum set teacher was a fervent devotee of Buddy Rich and Joe Morello. A few years later, I started to get serious about orchestral percussion (timpani, mallets, etc.), and the teachers I studied with emphasized matched grip, even for snare drum. For years, I used both, but eventually, trad' grip basically fell by the wayside for me.
I'll still find myself using it from time to time, but not for any specific musical or technical reason - it's just as if that part of my history seems to surface on a given day. I don't find any specific benefits to traditional grip - anything I can do with trad, I can do equally well with matched. That's just me, BTW - I'm not speaking for anyone else with that statement.
I do practice trad a little bit each day, just to keep my chops up as a teacher - occasionally, I'll get an adult student who already plays with that grip, or a high school student will have to learn trad for their school drumline, and I want to be prepared to teach them.
The one area where trad still hangs on for me - brushwork. Even there, however, I find myself using matched grip on many occasions.
So...mark me down as "matched," I suppose, although I'm hardly dogmatic about it. | | Message posted 450 days ago | IP Logged |
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devoted2gretsch
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8 May 2009
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bluzman
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10 May 2009
| I chose "based on music" because I play both trad and matched. I was taught trad and played that way for many years. I taught myself matched in the early '90s while settling into my second incarnation on drums.
When I became an avid fan of shuffles and ghost notes, playing matched sped up the learning curve. After getting comfortable with matched, I relearned it all again in trad.
I spent last year in trad, this year in matched. Trad gives me more options with dynamics and feel; matched gives me straight line power and greater volume.
(...yawn...) OK, resume your life!
Phil | | Message posted 447 days ago | IP Logged |
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devoted2gretsch
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29 October 2009
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