The BEST explanation I've seen by far....and I only hit the wall 7x, the floor 12 times, and my face twice. Progress. ps: wear body armor, and clear the room.
Best explanation I’ve seen of this trick. He really breaks down the components & why you have to start it in the middle as a beginner & work up to the full effect - and show it to the audience a certain way. Thanks!
You get the grip eventually, it's really just your hands getting used to the motion at an incredibly precise level. I started learning to twirl a few years ago and now my hands do a lot of tiny stuff I don't even think about.
I love this lesson, it is the first time someone takes the time to explain it step by step ... any movement that makes you look better at the moment of playing is acceptable and part of the show, imagine the rockers guitar without the poses , jumps and rare hand movements? So, for drummers, we have the stick tricks. Amen tricks haters...
Hey Chip, thanks for the video. I've always wanted to learn how to spin those sticks. I started playing drums when I was 16.....been playing off and on for many years now. I'm 71 and still play my Gretch acoustics along with my Roland V-drum set that I have in my studio. Now I have something else to work on!!! Thanks for the inspiration. :)
Absolutely correct way to teach this trick. I learned how to do this on my own when I saw Tommy Lee do it, but the way it's taught here is exactly the way you should do it. The ONLY issue I had was where it is in your hand when you strike the drums. After the roll, it ends in your hand in the same position, between the index and middle finger, which isn't a formal way to hold the stick.
@@early_winter268 I can't even imagine how insecure you must be, to publicly post a comment like that. I bet you didn't get enough hugs growing up. Poor, poor sad Jeff. Srsly though...WTH is wrong with you?
THANK YOU!! I was holding the stick too tightly and you were the first one to suggest that I hold it loosely. I'm actually starting to make some spins. Thank you!!
The first drummer 🥁 I've seen spin his sticks, is Dino Danelli of the The Rascsls. Besides being a very handsome Man, he is a fantastic skilled and talented Master on the drums🥁. I'd want to see The Rascals on TV just to see Dino.
I've never felt so stupid trying to learn this. Been playing drums for a long time. Not great, not bad. I just like to play and jam sometimes. But twirling in any fashion is something my brain and hands can not connect on
Ok, two things please: *•1* which package and or link will take me to your “stage presence” lessons on Drumeo And *•2* I have mastered this spinning technique with my right hand but now all I want to do is FLIP the sticks in my hands in between hits. So I can be constantly spinning the sticks fast or slow between strikes. Specifically I want to do the spin where it starts in the fulcrum, flips once and somehow at the height of the muller upstroke gets back into the fulcrum just in time to come down for a bounce of a drum or cymbal. I’ve seen professional drummers do it live, effortlessly. I always end up spinning too late or too early and or losing the rhythm/beat as well as obviously the sticks. It’s risky to spin the sticks in the middle of a song. I guess I have to finally set up a bucket of sticks next to each of my sets. I’ve been told that Vic Firth drum sticks(when mix-matched) become unbalanced and uneven to each other so... ahh I hope someone has some advice and some outside perspective. My outside perspective is telling me “Practice” “Litter the ceiling with stalactites of drumsticks” “use any and all drum sticks” Nothing better than seeing a drummer completely committed and making risky moves while drumming. If you’re just grasping the sticks for dear life it’s a feeling of unease. If you drop your sticks who cares just don’t miss the snares
Relative to the concern about matched-pair sticks...you’ll probably never tell the difference if you mix them up unless you spend a LOT of time working left/right balance on a practice pad. The “dead” sound helps you hear small differences. On a drum set, MOST people playing standard rock grooves will have an extremely dominant hand...we often play at least a 4:1 ratio of hi-hat or ride to each snare hit. That hand dominance usually overpowers any small difference made by slightly mismatched sticks. To verify, get a pair of sticks and a practice pad and alternate 8 on each hand and listen closely...generally you’ll hear a small difference left-to-right. Now switch sticks between hands and repeat. If the difference in sounds moved, you can blame the sticks. If not, it’s probably your hands. It’s not always easy to distinguish between small pitch and volume differences. This is one reason that I encourage open-hand drumming as part of your drumming arsenal...let your weaker hand ride for a while, balance things out, and open up some new sticking patterns...but I still think you’ll find mismatched sticks to not be a major problem. Vic Firth (and most others) are fairly consistent in their manufacturing processes even before the pitch-pairing.
I can't keep the stick spinning for a long period of time because my finger strat hurting ! any tips on that ? Also when I put it up high the speed get reduced ... Thanks in advance
wow i cant spin with my left hand counterclockwise or clockwise but i can do it with my right hand but only counterclockwise, however the stick keeps sliding out and flying away. one drummer's skills brought me here.
I'm not sure if this will help but here's is something that might help you. Imagine you are about to flick the drumstick, paint brush, pen, whatever your using to the next finger on the knuckle side of your hand. Not sure if that made sense lol
I always spun it about half way down the first and second finger, not all the way down in the crutch. Hurts the knuckle like hell to do it that way, anyone else feel the same?
just keep putting it back and work more on one side of it than the other, it will slide less and less the more you mess with it and keep trying I promise
Very hard - though I thought it was harder because I thought you actually had to move it around your fingers! Grade 8 drummer and still can't do the drum stick twirl Haha
That is because your index finger is trying to grip the stick to hard loosen up like you would if your playing with just those to fingers after you get it spinning of course
@@ChipRitter Hello Chip, is the stick supposed to stay down locked inside the cruck of the fingers? Hurts the sides of my knuckles badly. Is this supposed to hurt from the beginning. I can do it as long as I move the stick towards the middle of my fingers. Appreciate your response.
Good Lesson ! I wouldn’t know a drum from a bum - but my 3 pair of sticks delivered for 9 bucks arrived today and I’m going to find out how to do this with a pair of sticks in each car and at my desk - WTF !
The BEST explanation I've seen by far....and I only hit the wall 7x, the floor 12 times, and my face twice. Progress. ps: wear body armor, and clear the room.
That was cute, made me laugh, but pretty true fo me!!! Probably why I'm laughing lol😂😂😂
Its been years. Have you mastered it yet?
I just started knowing how to do only the pen single roll, i can't do it without moving the wrist and it's hard to do its consecutively.
Did you master it yet? lol, Check your notifications!
😄👍
Best explanation I’ve seen of this trick. He really breaks down the components & why you have to start it in the middle as a beginner & work up to the full effect - and show it to the audience a certain way. Thanks!
Is it me or do my hands not have any grip, the shit goes flying
bruh same lol
Yup same
You get the grip eventually, it's really just your hands getting used to the motion at an incredibly precise level. I started learning to twirl a few years ago and now my hands do a lot of tiny stuff I don't even think about.
This lessons got me all spun out! My head is positively spinning with information!
I love this lesson, it is the first time someone takes the time to explain it step by step ... any movement that makes you look better at the moment of playing is acceptable and part of the show, imagine the rockers guitar without the poses , jumps and rare hand movements? So, for drummers, we have the stick tricks. Amen tricks haters...
i love this comment thank you
Instead of looking how of to improve my drum technique, I look up this.
At least now I look cool when I play
nice! I'm super glad you look cool when you play now thanks!
:D
The biggest part of anything is having fun and enjoying it🤘
I want to become Mike Portnoy
Hi man
wooooaah youre here?
didnt expect to see you here. but you are. neat.
Don't we all?
I always wanted to be Dave Weckle. Alas! I ended up like Neil Peart.
Just kidding! I'm more like Phil Collins.
Hey Chip, thanks for the video. I've always wanted to learn how to spin those sticks. I started playing drums when I was 16.....been playing off and on for many years now. I'm 71 and still play my Gretch acoustics along with my Roland V-drum set that I have in my studio. Now I have something else to work on!!! Thanks for the inspiration. :)
hey Mickey thanks man!!!!
I've watched lots of drumstick spin how to videos and this is by far the only one you need to learn
That looks amazing. Two skills I am unable to master are twirling sticks and making bubbles with bubble gum. Go figure.
Same here
Same bro
You just need the right gum
Bubble gum has defeated me flat on the floor. I can’t. I even stopped trying 🤣🤣🤣
@@ceave does it matter what type?
Thank you for this video! This was a lot quicker and easier than learning how to play drums and I'm very cool now.
I'm a lifer on drums - and very much appreciate everything you do here for people like myself!! rock on!!
that bass drum sounds incredible
Absolutely correct way to teach this trick. I learned how to do this on my own when I saw Tommy Lee do it, but the way it's taught here is exactly the way you should do it. The ONLY issue I had was where it is in your hand when you strike the drums. After the roll, it ends in your hand in the same position, between the index and middle finger, which isn't a formal way to hold the stick.
Useless!!!
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I Love it!
I wasn’t getting the hang of it at first, but I watched the video again and after the second time of watching it, I was able to do it right away
This is awesome! I've seen Chip and Bad News Blues Band a million times. How cool to come across this video!
Is it me, or does anybody else find this hard!!!!😂😂😂????????
No it's not just you/
Agreed
Judith Johnson every time I do it my two finger hurt
well my hands are autistic so ill never be able to do it
Difficult to do but I think constant practice would help
Thanks all for the kind words!
this dude just explains it so easily and calmfully, not everyone can do so. respect
Dammit he looks like he is teaching kungfu because of his clothes haha! Good video though
everybody was kungfu drumming
Neo: "I know kung fu ... drumming ..."
Cypher: "Shit ... wrong disk ... sorry ... ..."
@@kierenmoore3236 haha
@@early_winter268 I can't even imagine how insecure you must be, to publicly post a comment like that. I bet you didn't get enough hugs growing up. Poor, poor sad Jeff. Srsly though...WTH is wrong with you?
Drum Fu
Chip Ritter plays those drums like gentleman, a real gentleman.
Chip's showmanship is awesome.
Thank you!
THANK YOU!!
I was holding the stick too tightly and you were the first one to suggest that I hold it loosely. I'm actually starting to make some spins. Thank you!!
awesome!
Thanks - if you see my notes above. I couldn't get it. Now I am getting it with a loose grip. I'll mail you $5
Thanks for such a great description I’ve been playing for years never tried this but I will now!
COOL!
Very clear, no nonsense and well demonstration tutorial unlike others!
thanks for the lesson and the encouragement is also appreciated
That beginning was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen
You are a great teacher!
Thank you!
wow! I'm a penspinner. so I know that trick (charge) already and it's a easy one but you are explayning it better than all those penspinmers!
The first drummer 🥁 I've seen spin his sticks, is Dino Danelli of the The Rascsls. Besides being a very handsome Man, he is a fantastic skilled and talented Master on the drums🥁. I'd want to see The Rascals on TV just to see Dino.
im indonesia people...i love it... thank,s very much..
6 people can't do it, so they dislike the video. 😂
pro pen spinners call it for Charge. And pen spinners might dislike it cuz he gave it a fucked up name LOL...
RIGHT, EVERYONE ALMOST is saying useless!!! WTF! Every rock star does it!
@@judithjohnson5532 I agree! Totally!
Thanks for the lesson!
You my brother...are AMAZING!!! Thumbs Up and shared! A+++
I've never felt so stupid trying to learn this. Been playing drums for a long time. Not great, not bad. I just like to play and jam sometimes. But twirling in any fashion is something my brain and hands can not connect on
Hey chip do you have a video out about how to go from playing to a spin and back to playing
That’s so cool, I always wanted to play the drums as a kid and an adult but just didn’t have the music Jean in me
Gene*
Never to late
The most important part of drumming
You’re a good teacher. Thanks
Ok, two things please:
*•1* which package and or link will take me to your “stage presence” lessons on Drumeo
And
*•2* I have mastered this spinning technique with my right hand but now all I want to do is FLIP the sticks in my hands in between hits. So I can be constantly spinning the sticks fast or slow between strikes. Specifically I want to do the spin where it starts in the fulcrum, flips once and somehow at the height of the muller upstroke gets back into the fulcrum just in time to come down for a bounce of a drum or cymbal.
I’ve seen professional drummers do it live, effortlessly.
I always end up spinning too late or too early and or losing the rhythm/beat as well as obviously the sticks. It’s risky to spin the sticks in the middle of a song. I guess I have to finally set up a bucket of sticks next to each of my sets. I’ve been told that Vic Firth drum sticks(when mix-matched) become unbalanced and uneven to each other so... ahh I hope someone has some advice and some outside perspective.
My outside perspective is telling me “Practice” “Litter the ceiling with stalactites of drumsticks” “use any and all drum sticks”
Nothing better than seeing a drummer completely committed and making risky moves while drumming. If you’re just grasping the sticks for dear life it’s a feeling of unease. If you drop your sticks who cares just don’t miss the snares
Relative to the concern about matched-pair sticks...you’ll probably never tell the difference if you mix them up unless you spend a LOT of time working left/right balance on a practice pad. The “dead” sound helps you hear small differences. On a drum set, MOST people playing standard rock grooves will have an extremely dominant hand...we often play at least a 4:1 ratio of hi-hat or ride to each snare hit. That hand dominance usually overpowers any small difference made by slightly mismatched sticks. To verify, get a pair of sticks and a practice pad and alternate 8 on each hand and listen closely...generally you’ll hear a small difference left-to-right. Now switch sticks between hands and repeat. If the difference in sounds moved, you can blame the sticks. If not, it’s probably your hands. It’s not always easy to distinguish between small pitch and volume differences.
This is one reason that I encourage open-hand drumming as part of your drumming arsenal...let your weaker hand ride for a while, balance things out, and open up some new sticking patterns...but I still think you’ll find mismatched sticks to not be a major problem. Vic Firth (and most others) are fairly consistent in their manufacturing processes even before the pitch-pairing.
really cool vid ! short and sweet ! goes right to the point ! THX a lot
best teacher ever
As a bonus it’s a great forearm workout😂 your forearms will be rock hard after practicing this
I can't keep the stick spinning for a long period of time because my finger strat hurting ! any tips on that ? Also when I put it up high the speed get reduced ...
Thanks in advance
slow down and let your finger rest a bit then come back to it, then repeat ad infinitum!
@@ChipRitter appreciate it, see you on drumeo
good job sir 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Excellent lesson
So freaking cool. He is fantastic
Me a medical student, spinning radius bone like drum sticks😆 What quarantine has done to me🤔
Medical school band?
Only the beginning is sick, that little drumsolo.
Thanks-well done!
What stickbag is that purple one? It looks awesome!
Thats my signature stick bag by Humes & Berg! :)
That was cool man thanks!!!
Thank you 🥁
wow i cant spin with my left hand counterclockwise or clockwise
but i can do it with my right hand but only counterclockwise, however the stick keeps sliding out and flying away.
one drummer's skills brought me here.
Greetings drom POLAND drumeo :)
Hej jak w Polsce
I think my drumstick is too big for my fingers cause it keeps moving forward when I move my fingers and it goes flying😐
Great trick👍 thanks
Best of the best
It’s so remarkable that anyone even understands what he is saying…
I'm not sure if this will help but here's is something that might help you. Imagine you are about to flick the drumstick, paint brush, pen, whatever your using to the next finger on the knuckle side of your hand.
Not sure if that made sense lol
I've found it better to practice outside, less breakage.
How do I get the stick out of my nose ?
Thanks so much. I'll practice.
A bit of harmless fun, I place it next to Pom-Poms as a necessity for a football match (thats soccer for the U.S. viewers).
What size are those
Hi Drumeo i learn spinning the drumstik thank you
This trick is really hard!
Thanks man
I always spun it about half way down the first and second finger, not all the way down in the crutch. Hurts the knuckle like hell to do it that way, anyone else feel the same?
0:06 im just here to see this performance
It just flies out of my hsnds
my fingers got swollen practicing this
Thank Chip. Nice
Only video the explained is
the best
I did this all the time in school when i got bored from lectures
Gahh it always slowly slides out of my hand, I don't get how to fix that
just keep putting it back and work more on one side of it than the other, it will slide less and less the more you mess with it and keep trying I promise
Tom Carroll use non-greasy hand lotion or athletic non-slip powder on your hands!
Just wobbling it between my fingers hurts and burns already, does anyone else hurt that or is it just me?
Thank you for the tip
omg it actually worked for about 5 secs...now it's gone..
How did u get ur snare to sound like that
I spin my sticks like t ha but after 5 years after learning that I still have yet to do it while playing
uneccessary but looks cool
Elliot Shearer it definitely is uneccessary
Very hard - though I thought it was harder because I thought you actually had to move it around your fingers! Grade 8 drummer and still can't do the drum stick twirl Haha
how do i get it on my nondominant hand
Never try this with a taiko batchi stick. It bloody hurts xx
Not only does it keep hitting the bottom of my Palm but it also keeps creeping out of my fingers
0:07 So cool
This might seem hard but it’s a Lot easier that a real drumstick roll.
Try this with 2b sticks and you'll feel like a fucking pro for life.
The stick keeps like walking up my fingers
Me too. I have tried this over the years and that is when I quit. Do you get it yet?
That is because your index finger is trying to grip the stick to hard loosen up like you would if your playing with just those to fingers after you get it spinning of course
Sad because it’s the end of the video and I’m not spinning like the best of ‘em
awe man I'm sorry!
Alexis what could I do to make that happen for you?
Nothing hahah! You did a great job explaining how to do it. It took me a couple days but I got down eventually(:
alexis pella ok cool! :)
@@ChipRitter Hello Chip, is the stick supposed to stay down locked inside the cruck of the fingers? Hurts the sides of my knuckles badly. Is this supposed to hurt from the beginning. I can do it as long as I move the stick towards the middle of my fingers. Appreciate your response.
the spinning isn’t so hard as the transitioning from stick grip to twirl position and back and forth. I wish he would mention that part.
thank you
For instance I though he's wearing Chinese cloth with Manju's haircut.
I wanna learn to spin it vertically
Stick Awesomeness
awesome thanks
groove (crack) bless drummeo costa rica
Good Lesson ! I wouldn’t know a drum from a bum - but my 3 pair of sticks delivered for 9 bucks arrived today and I’m going to find out how to do this with a pair of sticks in each car and at my desk - WTF !