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Man Merlini does finger controlled singles at 220 with ONE HAND 😅

First! :)

Awesome sauce

I understood at least %75 of what you were saying. Still trying to learn the language of music, then I can understand and apply the lessons.🤔

I still consider myself a beginner. I started off burying the beater. Then I tried not to. It's impossible not to bury the beater. You could say I just need to practice it more but I'm being stubborn and I'm not going to lol.

Great material --as always!

Always thought I was doin slide, when apparently I was really doing this. Never made the distinction, I guess. Cool vid 👍️

great usefull information , you have a very efficent way of teaching , thanks

Great Video! Love all the details included!

Looks like you've got more guitars than drums! Are you sure you're a drummer or just a frustrated guitarist?!?

the ending remarks are golden

This is great. I'm going to start working on this

Reich it up!

I have a habit of doing this in the bathroom air drumming

Noah. One of the best teachers I've ever had. You have no idea who I am. I've just absorbed your video teachings. Thank you.

This was incredibly helpful. I thought I was only supposed to use the “proper one”, but it didn’t always make sense, or feel comfortable. Know I see that it’s just a loving family of grips to be used as needed. Thank you!

any tips on playing effective doubles on low tuned snares?

Hey Noah, great video, helped me alot but what about traditional grip...............I'm old school.

Thank you 👍😁

As always, thank you. 👍😁

Found my drum teacher!

Thanks

Playing with dynamics is hard!

Ok man.. look: this is hugely useful information packed in a direct, no nonsense format and I cannot thank you enough for it! BUT the delivery format, man!.. it makes one’s head spin! You have edited-out ALL the natural breaks in speech (as in a commercial) and this makes it really hard to follow, and for the brain to connect, to the point of becoming a little frustrating. I’m no video editor expert, but from the point of view of information delivery, for it to become knowledge, I can tell you this is not working well - the brain needs space to take-in stuff and also for the images to be fluent without so many “hops” in order to be easily digestible. And it doesn’t improve much when pausing the vid either. It is similar to playing too many notes on the drums with the band - space is equally important. If your concern is ending up with a too long video, then why not consider making a short where you summarize and structure the ideas schematically and link it to the long version which needs to be much more “relaxed”, without unnecessary talking either: consider introducing intentional breaks (maybe having a quiet musical soundtrack in background and raising its loudness during 1s or 2s pauses). Again: having short, natural space added and repeating the main ideas summarized once, can go a loooong way in followers experience.

Excellent breakdown of the essential strokes and how to master them.

Great vid!

Love your exercises! So much content in so little time. Thank you 🥁

Very helpful 👍👍👍

Very good explanation of basics 👏👏👏

Showing the angle from the drummer's POV would be more helpful.

Noah, it was one of your early videos that made me deep-dive into my grip. Moving the thumb around, trying different levels of pressure, low contact to high contact. And I’ve found amazing sounds by doing this, snare drums and cymbals sound very different, in a very good way.

This will be the video that helps me transcend my limits. Thanks fam🔥

Regarding the grip: You said to always keep your thumb across from the index finger even when the fulcrum shifts. But then you say you like to use the middle finger fulcrum, and in that case, the thumb is more across from the middle finger. Confusing!

Good stuff. Hear me out on something tho. This is a great video for beginners like myself but you say and show what the beat is. Then 2 minutes later your not playing that simple beat. You're adding a bunch of ghost notes and whatnot. I realize it's not the end of the world but for a true beginners that would be confusing.

Awesome content! You really helped me with ideas!

I’ve been playing for almost 1 year-1/2, and although I’ve gotten fairly proficient in other areas, my fills are my main weakness, since most of my focus has been on groove. This is the perfect lesson for someone like me. Thank you and love your content.

Aside from Bill Bachman’s technique series, this is the only other video I’ve watched that covers this topic. Really concise, too! I spent a long time trying to “correct” my grip which felt very unnatural. I think there’s a tendency to oversimplify things like this. I understand that it can become a point of too much focus in place of other things that are arguably more valuable, such as phrasing and vocabulary, but in a bid to develop a well rounded technique I believe this is a fundamental problem that should be addressed early on. At the very least, it saves a lot of time and potentially injury from thinking there’s a good and bad way to hold the sticks. I tried sticking to a rigid first finger fulcrum and frequently experienced thumb pain, then tried exclusively middle finger which eased that but then made it harder to play faster, more nuanced patterns. Great video, thanks!

This video is unreal. Been looking for something like this for a long time!

This topic needs to be adressed by us the drummers. Seriously, it's a fundamental subject when trying to play to the drums and almost no one talks deeply about it. All what you hear is wrist technique or finger technique, hand position on the stick and that's it. But it's a shorten version of the complete explanation. Thanks for the video.

I'm a fairly new drummer. My stick in my right hand is always flying out haha. It seems like it happens a lot when I first sit down at the kit. The good news is apparently my grip is relaxed

Been watching your channel for a while now, very impressed with your teaching and your skill, thanks for the great work !

I was glad to find the middle fulcrum a while ago. I had been just using front and pinching the stick too much, the middle is helping be have a looser grip and keep my fingers on the stick. especially my weak left hand. Great Video, subbed.

Great lesson!

Really good descriptions & explanations. Good job man! Seriously. 👍

took some time to discover back fulcrum. Tony´s favorite! :D

"The wood of the stick resonating is a big part of a good, open sound." Yes, but keeping all fingers on the sticks at all times inhibits the sticks' ability to resonate. I can understand wanting to keep all fingers on the sticks if it gives you a better sense of control, but it's a bit of a strange editing choice to bring up two somewhat contradictory pieces of advice/info back-to-back. If you want to maximize stick resonance, there should only be three fingers (thumb, index, middle) on the sticks (not counting rear fulcrum, of course). Develop all the fundmaentals this way, and use the rear fingers only when necessary for the sake of control. Watch any of Murray Spivack's students - Louie Bellson, David Garibaldi, Chuck Silverman, the Wackerman family, etc. - to see it in action. That said, control is more important, and if you feel you don't have enough control with a three-finger grip, use all your fingers.

oh shit need to detail watch this, but if this is what I think he might be onto something very important that I've been too lazy to make a video about 🤣

Awesome video! Emphasizing something that is so important and unnoticed by many people. A question I always had is if using pure middle fulcrum allows you to make a clear close roll? or is it indispensable to use the index pressure to make it possible?

Two nit-picky disagreements: 1) That there's a difference with how much each grip lets you "open up." If anything, I've had the opposite experience: more facility with powerful and large, upstrokes via the rear fulcrum. Have you practiced "snapping" the stick up with the last two fingers? 2) I question whether there's much point explicitly developing a middle finger fulcrum when you develop the front and rear. First because it's a bit "jack of all trades master of none" and for most things where it works better than front, rear works even better (and vice-versa). And second because, if you develop the front and the rear you tend to develop the middle anyway even when you aren't really trying to. At least, that's what happened for me.

This video feels like a godsend, I've been struggling the past 2 weeks because I didn't understand how to integrate technique into playing fast doubles, and the crab claws tip you gave just opened my eyes, THANK YOU