Introduction to Types of Drumsticks

Drumsticks are percussion instruments drums, by beating the drum surface and produce sound. Here is my introduction about the types of drumsticks, welcome to read.

Types of Drumsticks

There are various types of drumsticks

1. General Drumsticks: There are different shapes, different materials, and different tones (especially rim strokes) and techniques for different drumsticks.

2. Rute: A bundle of thin bamboo and wood strips, its percussion sound has a rustle, sound quality and volume between the drum brush and the general drumsticks.

3. Drum brush (Brush) commonly known as the drum broom: metal and plastic bristles points, delicate and soft tone, used in the volume of demand for small places such as soft music, jazz, small space or traditional church.

4. Cotton mallets (Mallets): the front of the drumstick for cotton or rubber products, the sound of the blow has a low, deep, stable and solemn feeling, so the blowing of the floor tom (Floor Tom) has the flavor of a timpani. If used in the wheel cymbals, will produce a soft and dense *** sound delay effect, can create a soft heavenly realm of the effect.

5. Latin drumsticks (Latin Sticks): drumstick head and tail with the same thickness, the length of 13 inches, 15 inches and 16 inches of three kinds, with its percussion cowbells (Cowbells), Tianba drums (Timbales) and other rhythmic sound effects, there is a feeling of enthusiasm and joy.

6. If there is black dirt on the head of the drumstick (mainly from hitting the cymbals), it is easy to stick the black dirt on the matte skin of the snare drum when playing the snare drum, resulting in a smooth snare drum skin with no roughness, and it is difficult to present a perfect rustling sound when you want to play it with a drum brush.

7. If the head of the mallet is broken and hits the skin, the skin will be easily dented, so don't hesitate to replace them.

Grip

An incorrect grip is usually one of the main reasons why it is difficult to make progress later on

1. The difference between the two is only in the left hand. The traditional grip is to gently hold the drumstick between the left thumb and forefinger (tiger's mouth) and swing it up and down.

2. The symmetrical grip is the same for the left and right hands, with the drumsticks in a figure-eight shape, and the back of the hand upward at a different angle, so that a right-handed player, for example, can hit a Hi-Hat or Ride Cymbal at a different angle, and a left-handed player can hit a snare drum or a floor tom at a different angle.

3. There are many ways to hold the drumsticks, and you can't limit yourself to just one or two ways to hold the drumsticks. There are even times when you need to hold two drumsticks in one hand, so there is no one way to hold them that is absolutely correct.

4. Latin music for the keen tone, commonly used 13-inch short Latin drumsticks to take the traditional grip, this time the end of the drumstick to hold the heart of the hand,! The drumsticks are held in the center of the hand and struck with the thumbs, forefingers, and middle fingers of both hands.

5. At the beginning of the grip to ease the principle of stick, do not force the pinch, resulting in tendon injuries, in addition to improper use of wrist force, resulting in Tom Tom over the door of the drums turbid, Hi-Hat hit point is not crisp shortcomings.

6. There are many ways to hold the stick, but holding the stick at the end of the 1/3 of the stick is the most common. If you want to increase the force, you can hold the end of the stick.

Striking Posture

A drummer's striking posture probably reveals how well he strikes the drums, how to say:

1. Upper body is not correct, the left and right shoulders are not balanced.

2. Drum chair height is inappropriate, resulting in the left and right foot pressure point is not good, the drums strong and weak uneven, Hi-Hat open and close the time point to catch not allowed.

3. Stiff arms, unable to swing with the music, hard and inelastic movements, easy back pain, unable to play at a stable speed for a long time.

4. Only use the arm strength to play drums, wrist strength is not very good, resulting in the door drums muddy (especially the drumskin is more fluffy landing Tom Tom), Hi-Hat hit the shortcomings of the crisp.

5. Hi-Hat's strike is a small arm down when playing a little, a small arm lift with the wrist and then play a little, so the beat is more accurate, the arm is not easy to fatigue, and you can get a clear tone of the intensity of the sound.