Opinions can vary, it's not about 'who is better than who' what matters is exploring as many options as needed to find the one that works for each individual. What 'works' for you, may not work for me. (Or somebody else.) I offered an option/explanation and a source. Quote: ... and right on with the Dave Weckl (and those other poor Gruber students).Of course, it's always easier to critique and tear down. Just dive down into the Id and unleash the Kraken. Helpful references, alternatives or positive additions to the information offered is always most welcome however. But unless you can play half of what Weckl can play... I'd show a bit more humility in my criticism. It's one thing to 'talk down' to an inferior player, but it's always real hard to fling poop uphill.Thanks for the contribution, but I'm not going to turn this into a debate about which method/school of thought, is right or wrong. There is no right or wrong... again, it's about what -works- for each individual.John
The topic's titled "what do you do to maintain good hands" I would surely think that technique would be included in this discussion as that is the root of "good hand" maintenance (maybe you meant to narrow it to stick routines???). I didn't "dis" Dave's playing/musicality however, just because he can play "well" doesn't mean he can teach well.
From the DW clip, I gathered that he doesn't have a clear understanding of the mechanics of the wrist (along with the hand and arm) and its relationship in the Moeller motions. Therefore, his inadequate explanation is spreading the wrong concepts and producing weaker technique. Gruber is another one that for the life of me I just can't seem to extract an adequate explanation from, without it going in a contradictory circle... 5-minutes with Freddie and my head wants to explode!!! DW made the connection to FG so it's quite easy to see why he isn't well grounded on the subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=iomrYZ_AAXc
I'll leave it at that....
A routine that I like to warm-up on is a 4/4, 4-measure set of 16-note triplets that starts with:
Single hand-to-hand triplets; followed by double paradiddles; followed by paradiddle-diddles; followed by double stroke rolls (in triplet form). So you cycle from full singles to full doubles in triplet form. Sometimes I'll bounce around with 2/3/4 measures of each "figure" to make a longer set and one that doesn't cycle as fast.
FFR428 That's one of my favorite PJJ clips!!!!
