00:08The next technique I want to break down looks quite impressive. There are a few variations of it, both in
00:14right hand and left hand. It's called the push-pull technique. You can get a lot of speed with one
00:20hand.
00:22You can do some amazing things with this, and my favorite way to use this technique is when I'm playing
00:28a right cymbal or maybe a hi-hat. I can use it for different patterns and stuff.
00:49Starting with the right hand, we're going to get in the German grip position.
00:53So with our stick here in the center of the head, the first thing we're going to do is get
00:57back into what I'm going to call the starting position,
00:59where our wrist is back like this and our fingers are just comfortably relaxed in the palm of our hands
01:06holding the stick.
01:07From here, we're going to go down to a very familiar-looking stroke where we let the stick bounce up
01:13like that, the rebound.
01:21The next thing we want to do is just let the stick fall down to the head like that, and
01:28then we pull up with our fingers to complete it.
01:32Push, pull, push, pushing down, and then we're pulling back up, and then our hand comes from here.
01:41So pulling back up, back into the starting position where we push the stick from.
01:49One thing I want to highlight is in order to get this fast, in order to develop speed and be
01:55fluid and relaxed in this motion,
01:58you need to get away from staccato motions like that and rather smooth that push and pull motion together so
02:08they're flowing.
02:09Flowing, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, like that.
02:16So I'm not stopping and starting like that.
02:22I'm letting, I'm actually playing very gently as well.
02:27I'm trying to make those motions flow together.
02:35So to develop it, you're going to approach it the same way as we did with that burst exercise.
02:50And then your goal from here is to be able to turn that push-pull pattern into a consistent motion
03:00that you can play, hopefully without stopping, at least for maybe 30 seconds.
03:09Before you move on to a higher tempo.
03:11Then, again, bump the metronome up.
03:14And maybe at this new tempo you can only get a few strokes in.
03:21That's fine, just use it as your goal to try and achieve four strokes.
03:27Or five or six.
03:28And as you can play more and more in a row, hopefully you don't need that break in between and
03:38you can keep it as a consistent roll.
03:44Now a tip for when you want to drop into your top speed push-pull.
03:50One thing I like to do is almost start out those strokes.
03:54As if I'm going for a group of three, throw the stick down so I get one, two, three.
04:00And I turn it into the push-pull.
04:06It works great for when you want to play, for example, that jazz rise cymbal pattern or you're playing off
04:11-tempo swing.
04:12And you want to throw in some nice odd groupings like Tony.
04:20It's a very natural way to do it.
04:22And the great thing is you don't need to make a drastic grip change at all.
04:26You can keep the same grip with this push-pull technique as you do with whatever grip you're playing that
04:32rise cymbal pattern with.
04:37I hope you enjoyed that lesson and also found it valuable.
04:40If you're interested in learning three other push-pull variations or diving into breakdowns of every other hand technique that
04:47I know and use,
04:48you can access this full course called The Art of Efficiency through my website.
04:53Or just comment yes below and I'll send you a link that goes right to the course landing page.
05:00Again, I'll also have it in the description.
05:03If you visit my site as well and you're interested in signing up for private lessons, you can do that
05:08there.
05:09Or access other courses like the free course I have called The Art of Observation.
05:15I'll see you there.
05:18Bye.
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