Technique Patters book question

[deseipel]

http://books.google.com/books?id=0ZOAK9U9h4UC&lpg=PA9&ots=FooJI9e7jy&dq=gary%20chaffee%20technique%20patterns%20fulcrum&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false


the beginning finger control exercises in this book discuss fingers & fulcrum seperately, but he doesn't exactly define 'fulcrum'. When I think of using fingers, I think that the point at which the stick rotates is the fulcrum.

So what does Gary mean when he shows Group C; which mixes using the fulcrum and then the fingers? Does he mean use whatever normal playing motion/fulcrum and then use the finger indicated?

just wondered.


edit: upon further thought, I'm guessing he means use the index finger as the fulcrum, based on the numbering in the exercises.
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DeSeipel

[Drumblast]

Yes, it's the index finger he showed me. Then you use the others fingers separately to twiddle the stick. Make sure none of the twiddling fingers are touching each other---stick them out when doing the finger exercises.
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[DCdrmwthme]

[deseipel]

would you guys say its similar to the section on JoJo's DVD?

This is fairly challenging to do in a german grip.

a lot of times I play in between german & french though = swiss grip I suppose.
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DeSeipel

[DCdrmwthme]