Lesson 1 The Free Drum Stroke

This lesson describes what the drummers free stroke is and how to develop this technique.
The way we touch the drums will dictate the way you will sound in any playing situation and the trick is to develop the control of your hands, wrists and fingers and together create your unique drum sound. Here we are focusing on rebound and having the drum stick bounce back up and ready to come down again very quickly. The dropping of the stick as opposed to squeezing the stick allows for the drum to not choke but breath and ring out