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Drummers who twirl their sticks
- Thread starter Joe Nerve
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Agree. Flash can be fun and audiences like it - but playing "flash" in the middle of a groove song? What's the point?
??? Nope, what?
Not sure if Keith Moon twirled the sticks. Most of the time, you can't even see the sticks!
Great hand and finger control. I can only aspire...
It's like a good front person (♀). If you got it, flaunt it.
He can't be as bad as this guy. If I auditioned him as soon as he started with all the histrionics I've have cut it short and said "next"
I spin my sticks on occasion, I've been doing it so long I sometimes don't even realize that I'm doing it.
Case in point, I've been working part time in a music store for the holiday season. Last week I was waiting on a couple and their eleven year old daughter. I'm showing them some cymbals, as Cymbal upgrades are going to be her Christmas present this year. I had a stick in my hand, as I was demonstrating the differences between the different brands and cymbal lines. I didn't realize it, but I was absent mindedly spinning sticks while we talked. They ended up buying a nice set of Zildjian A Customs for her. At the end of the sale the mom asked if I'd teach her daughter how to spin sticks, as she had been wanting to learn how since she started playing at age seven. I spent about ten minutes showing the daughter how to do it. By the time they left she was spinning them slowly, but confidently with both hands. All three family members were beaming when they left. It was pretty cool.
I spin sticks during a couple of songs in a rock and soul show band, and absent mindedly between songs when the front man is engaging the audience. It seems to fit. After forty years of stick spinning, it does not affect my playing in the least. In some musical situations it just does not work, at those times I don't do it. (At least not on purpose.)
Case in point, I've been working part time in a music store for the holiday season. Last week I was waiting on a couple and their eleven year old daughter. I'm showing them some cymbals, as Cymbal upgrades are going to be her Christmas present this year. I had a stick in my hand, as I was demonstrating the differences between the different brands and cymbal lines. I didn't realize it, but I was absent mindedly spinning sticks while we talked. They ended up buying a nice set of Zildjian A Customs for her. At the end of the sale the mom asked if I'd teach her daughter how to spin sticks, as she had been wanting to learn how since she started playing at age seven. I spent about ten minutes showing the daughter how to do it. By the time they left she was spinning them slowly, but confidently with both hands. All three family members were beaming when they left. It was pretty cool.
I spin sticks during a couple of songs in a rock and soul show band, and absent mindedly between songs when the front man is engaging the audience. It seems to fit. After forty years of stick spinning, it does not affect my playing in the least. In some musical situations it just does not work, at those times I don't do it. (At least not on purpose.)
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Nothing wrong with giving 'em a show!....I spin my sticks on occasion, I've been doing it so long I sometimes don't even realize that I'm doing it.
Case in point, I've been working part time in a music store for the holiday season. Last week I was waiting on a couple and their eleven year old daughter. I'm showing them some cymbals, as Cymbal upgrades are going to be her Christmas present this year. I had a stick in my hand, as I was demonstrating the differences between the different brands and cymbal lines. I didn't realize it, but I was absent mindedly spinning sticks while we talked. They ended up buying a nice set of Zildjian A Customs for her. At the end of the sale the mom asked if I'd teach her daughter how to spin sticks, she has been wanting to learn how since she started playing at age seven. I spent about ten minutes, by the time they left she was spinning them slowly, but confidently with both hands. All three of them were beaming when they left. It was pretty cool.
I do it in the rock and soul show band and it fits, after forty years of stick spinning, it does not affect my playing in the least. In some musical situations it does not fit, at those times I don't do it. (At least not on purpose.)
