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[chewy]

Never heard of this Ari guy buy yeah I'm sure he plays great jazz drumming. Personally, I play jazz with matched grip even though it looks wierd. I always played traditional grip when I played jazz but decided that I should concentrate on one grip and do it well.

 

[Funkifized]

Why would matched grip look weird in a jazz setting? The traditional grip isn't like a 'must-have' staple with jazz... it's a must-have for traditional drumlines and pipe bands (because it's tradition), but that's about it.

Check here for Ari Hoenig... http://drummerworld.com/drummers/Ari_Hoenig.html

Young dude but full of musicality.

 

[chewy]

Traditional grip is called that simply because it is a tradition passed down from marching drummers. Matched grip looks wierd because it was evolved from traditional grip and suited for harder playing and modern music, not traditional jazz. Only recently, in the last few decades, drummers like Bill Stewart and Jack DeJohnette played matched grip in a jazz setting.

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. So where do you play and will you be there at the exchange? Hope to see you ya?

 

[Funkifized]

I might be at the exchange... see you there then. A guy from the drummer's collective... *humbled*

I've never heard of the fact that matched was developed from traditional. I thought traditional was developed because of the slanted angle in traditional marching drums (due to the strap). Jazz drummers played in that grip because most of them were taught by the rudimental snare drummers. That means that matched was always the way to go, isn't it? Traditional grip was only used to solve that slanted snare problem. But that's just what I studied, haha I might be wrong.

Besides, I can't think of why someone would hold their sticks like that by instinct. Watch any non-drummer pick up a pair of sticks, I'm pretty sure it's a matched grip.

 

[drummar-buah]

well yea it was just a way for the marching snare drummers to play.. they needed to invent their own new grip as a matched grip would make them look like chickens flappin their armpits when they play. so a new grip was born..
although i wonder...y couldn't they have done something about the straps though..

 

[Funkifized]

I think the technology back then was really bad. Now their snares are all straight, if they want it to. The holder for the snare is now supported by both shoulders, like what you see in the movie 'Drumline'. So now traditional grip is just kept for tradition and visual purposes. Santa Clara Vanguard (a drum corp, check out vicfirth.com) marched this year with matched grip.