What is the traditional snare drum grip called?

Unmatched grips, known as traditional grips because of their association with traditional snare drum and drum kit playing, in which the right and left hands grip the beaters in different ways, often one underhand and one overhand.

Why is traditional grip so hard?

It’s hard to play with a balanced sound with one hand held overhand and the other underhand. (The opposite grips have opposite ergonomics.) There are different amounts of flesh on each stick, which affects stick resonance and sound. The left hand has a much more limited range of motion when rotating the stick up.

What grip does Neil Peart use?

Peart had long played matched grip but shifted to traditional as part of his style reinvention in the mid-1990s under the tutelage of jazz coach Freddie Gruber. He played traditional grip throughout his first instructional DVD A Work in Progress and on Rush’s Test for Echo studio album.

What is the benefit of traditional grip?

The greatest benefit of traditional grip is that you can vary the angle of attack between the drumstick and whatever surface you’re playing on (therefore changing the sound) in a way that would be entirely impractical in a Germanic style grip and all but impossible in a French style grip.

Did Neil Peart take drum lessons?

He remarried in 2000, and found his way back to Rush by 2001. Peart grew up in Port Dalhousie, a middle-class Canadian suburb 70 miles from Toronto, where he took his first drum lessons at age 13.

Who trained Neil Peart?

teacher Freddie Gruber
To many people, Neil Peart was the world’s greatest living drummer. So it might not have made sense when, after facing his limitations during a Buddy Rich Memorial concert in 1991 and producing two Burning for Buddy albums, he began to re-evaluate his drumming technique and feel with teacher Freddie Gruber.

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