Lesson 3: How to Hold the Drumsticks

If you want to play the drums with ease, lower your energy output and save yourself from injury (yes, bad technique can cause injuries), learning how to holds the sticks correctly is key.

There isn’t just one way to hold a pair of sticks but there are many bad habits that can creep into your playing, which can limit your flow, create tension and ultimately cause some serious issues in your hands!

In this lesson we’ll take a look at 4 different ways you can hold the sticks. These are:

1. Traditional
2. Matched (German)
3. Matched (French)
4. American