It's actually pretty easy once you understand the proper way to grip the stick and rotate the wrist.

Great insight! Thanks!

And RIngo did play on the back of the beat for effect, to hold tempo down and as part of his thing for swing

This sounds pretty likely yes. Ringo also says that he plays his fills going up from floor tom to rack tom (e.g. "Come Together") for this exact reason.

What you said didn't make any sense. I'm a lefty that plays a righty kit. I can play traditional or matched grip. It's a matter of choice dude. I can get around the kit either way as many other drummers can. Matched grip is preferred by the large majority of rock drummers and traditional grip is preferred by the large majority of jazz drummers and marching band drummers.

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Kinda like Jimi Hendrix, although he was actually right handed, wrote with his right hand...

The "Come Together" drum fill is not floor to rack. In fact, if you listen closely to a drum iso, the end of each fill goes all around the 3 toms, top to floor and bass drum (Hi, Daniel!)

Exactly. D.J. Fontana (Elvis Presley's band) was the first mainstream player to play with a matched grip. Ringo gets the "credit" for matched grip because he had more exposure thanks to the popularity of The Beatles on television. Daniel states that Ringo used matched grip because "he needed to be louder" because of all of the screaming girls. Ringo used matched grip because his grandmother told him that left-handed people were "evil" and her left-handed grandson better learn to play the drums right-handed. Daniel also states that Ringo used a match grip because he used a small 20" bass drum. What?!?!?!?!? Matched grip or traditional grip has nothing to do with the volume of the bass drum. Then Daniel states that Ringo used matched grip so "he could really hit hard". Ringo did a lot of things....but hit hard was not one of them. Then Daniel states that using matched grip allowed Ringo to 'butter his bread' on the hi-hats. The choice of grip has no effect on how you play the hi-hats. as both matched grip and traditional grip use an overhand grip on the lead (hi-hat) hand.

The thing is i played some snare before and idk, am a rightie but my left hand will tend to swing as funny, maybe somthing like ringo since he was in some kinda awkward position, as he had to play in a right hander's drum kit altho he was a leftie, and when i played snare and esp when during deep into the song, my weaker hand which is my left became all swishy and swashy, like as if i was cooking, according to my friends... for me, i did noticed it one day as i subconsiously tried to and it looked like my drumstick was like the car's front windshield wiper😅😅😅idk... hahah!

As it should be. I was self taught and played match grip, learned traditional grip later on and it was difficult. I am teaching my son and starting him on strictly traditional grip. It will be much easier for him to learn brush technique and he will be able to switch to match grip without a problem.

jlarsena It doesn't have to be the last one - it's just the tip of the iceberg, actually. All of this info is based on my 3-hr documentary, The Century Project, which gives you a MUCH bigger picture about all this material in the same entertaining way. More info here: danielglass.co/daniel-glass-store/

Daniel Glass Awesome, thank you so much.

Roy Beckerman, I believe that, in Elvis' heyday, people only noticed the star of the show. Girls would only look at Elvis, or Jerry Lee Lewis. Only a handful of people would look beyond the singer or the sax player. D J Fontana was essential to the sound of the classic Elvis recordings, but all eyes and ears were on the guy swinging his hips... That was another thing different that The Beatles brought: individual personalities, where all members of the band were known to the public, even if they didn't pay much attention to the instruments they played.

But nobody before had the same kind of influence on young drummers.

You need practice😊😊👍👍

@@randysemenak2439 There's at least one video clip ("Sounds Of The Loop") where Joe Morello of the Dave Brubeck Quartet has to fetch the bass drum back into position - not surprising when you see how he thrashes that pedal. Does it without missing a single beat, too.

I somehow do it all the time, quite comfortable actually.

Looks like a plunger mute.

Richard Blackpool hey pachuco

Copeland learned his drumming from some unique sources.

+James Griffiths we don't

+Floria Tosca Wrong. Black American bands were playing black music and when the Beatles came over and other British groups their music was more melodic, more lively and over all more likable. Thus the British invasion and both white and black American musicians saw a drop in their own record sales. It's called competition. The British bands were just better!

+Floria Tosca The white/black dynamic (as far as who was the "inventor," and who was the "imitator" of different music styles) has been a very hotly debated topic throughout the course of American Popular Music. The Beatles' first four albums are definitely loaded with straight up covers of American rockabilly, rhythm and blues, early rock, soul and vocal group artists. But I wouldn't say these were "stolen" as the Beatles didn't claim credit for writing them. In fact, these covers may have brought the original artists more attention through their popularity (although that's a debatable topic as well). With all that said, however, most of what we remember the Beatles for today is their original music (maybe "Twist and Shout" is a notable exception), which definitely had its own character and sound. My opinion (and it's just one).

Daniel Glass Excellent points. The man knows his music!

Oh, he we go again... blah blah blah

Loved you at the Castel St Angelo......