Gaining the proper technique for allowing the stick to bounce will affect your speed, timing, and feel. It is one of the key building blocks for everything you play.
This Bounce Stroke course, along with How to Hold Your Sticks and Turn Your Wrists, is one of the fundamentals for learning proper technique, allowing you to gain speed and control by learning to follow the bounce of the stick. In Lesson One, Ralph Humphrey demonstrates the bounce stroke as he taught it for years at Musician’s Institute and Los Angeles College of Music. In Lesson Two, Don Lombardi describes how Freddy Gruber explained the bounce stroke and reviews key elements of Lesson One that are so important for you to learn. You will then learn how to apply the bounce stroke with other strokes, which will prepare you for The Outside Release ® Motion and everything you will play.
What You Will Learn:
Developing Stick Rebound
Combining Bounce Strokes and Tap Strokes
How to Play Relaxed
Developing Even Hand Flow
Don Lombardi
Don Lombardi founded Drum Workshop in 1972 as a teaching studio, giving 40 to 50 lessons a week. He studied with Nick Ceroli, Colin Bailey, and was one of Freddy Gruber’s first students, documenting Freddy’s teachings on Buddy Rich’s technique. Active in the LA club scene until DW began manufacturing in 1978, Don holds over 30 patents, but education has always been his passion, leading him to launch Drum Channel to share knowledge from the world’s top educators.
Ralph Humphrey
Ralph Humphrey is a legendary drummer and educator whose career spanned over five decades. He served as Drum Department Head and partnered with Joe Porcaro to write the drum set curriculum for both Musicians Institute and Los Angeles College of Music. This is the same curriculum used by their longtime student Mike Packer in The Drum Channel Method, along with Drum Channel lessons taught by Ralph Humphrey. He mentors thousands of students, many of whom have become top touring and recording artists. Ralph also performed and recorded with icons such as Frank Zappa, Don Ellis, Al Jarreau, and Natalie Cole, and contributed to numerous film and television productions like The Simpsons, Animaniacs, and Dancing with the Stars.
