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Hi, I'm Shaun Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to be learning
how to play a bossa nova drum beat. So the first thing we need to learn how to do before
we learn how to do anything regarding playing the drums is learning how to hold up the drum
sticks properly. So the first thing we want to do is grab a drum stick and extend your
right hand like you where going to shake someones hand. So then what you do is put the drum
stick just right in the palm of the hand. Leave a inch of the stick hanging below right
here, about a inch or so. It is called the butt of the stick and what you are going to
do is you are going to go ahead and wrap your fingers around. Then you are going to put
your thumb on the side. Now you don't want to put your thumb on top and you don't want
to put your thumb on the bottom you put it right on the side. I like to leave a little
space, a little gap in here that is called your forum that is where all the power comes
from. I like to leave it real open like that so it is really loose. The looser you hold
the sticks the less tired you are going to get, not as quickly. So you do that and then
you do the exact same thing in the left hand. About a inch of the butt of the stick out
and then you wrap your fingers around. Thumb on the side. This is called a match grip.
Now there is another type of grip that is called traditional which is like this. We
are not going to get into that today but that is a traditional grip. This is a match grip
and in case of the bossa nova drum beat we are actually going to flip the stick around
in your left hand. You want to hold it like you would normally would you are just going
to have the butt end of the stick. That is what you are going to be playing with and
the tip is going to be hanging out. I would get to that while we are going to do that
a little bit later but this is how we are going to hold the sticks for our boassa nova
drum beat. So let's go ahead and take a look at what our next step is going to be.