For years and years, if I play too much I've been getting odd pains mostly in my right hand, most notably my wrist and the back (top side) of my hand. My hand would sometimes get really tired playing the hi-hat and moeller would seem "jarring" on my wrist if I over-did the motion, especially on my not so bouncy electric kit hi-hat, and then when I went to fill it would hurt and oddly, the slower the fill the worse it would be especially when my hand was tiring on the hats, so sometimes just a single hit with my right hand quickly off the hats would be bad. Crazy right?
Today I sat down for the millionth time and tried to work out what was going on. Even working on the free stroke hadn't fixed it.
I just played the hats and thought, why is it uncomfortable? Then I "released" something and suddenly it was a lot more comfortable.... I think my pinky and maybe middle finger has constantly been trying to grasp the stick the whole time to keep it in a certain place across the palm. Even if I wasn't actually holding the stick against my palm I think I was tensing.
My sticks feel a bit less controlled now (though that will probably fix with time), the butt of the stick is nearer my wrist and it seems my finger tips are more controlling the stick rather than further up my fingers and sometimes my pinky doesn't quite reach, and its like my fulcrum is doing more work (in fact for rockier stuff I'm automatically reverting to a more triangular fulcrum between first and second finger).
It's so odd... It might not be the correct fix but something has certainly changed so I'll keep on experimenting for the next couple of weeks and see how band practises go.
I honestly thought about giving up so many times because of this, and now I may.. just may have fixed it.. finally. What's funny is nobody has ever spotted it because it really isn't obvious, it's not like I'm grasping the stick like a cave man.
Will post again when I'm sure and played on an A-Kit a few times.
PS, this is me doing the guru competition thing [yeah I know its rubbish but I only had a few hours to prepare ;-)]. I can sort of see on my right hand that I'm grasping a little with my pinky even though it looks loose (and its a slowly gentle piece so this wasn't really causing me any issue) : -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoVrWg2uxEs
I may have been doing it wrong all this time..
Today I sat down for the millionth time and tried to work out what was going on. Even working on the free stroke hadn't fixed it.
I just played the hats and thought, why is it uncomfortable? Then I "released" something and suddenly it was a lot more comfortable.... I think my pinky and maybe middle finger has constantly been trying to grasp the stick the whole time to keep it in a certain place across the palm. Even if I wasn't actually holding the stick against my palm I think I was tensing.
My sticks feel a bit less controlled now (though that will probably fix with time), the butt of the stick is nearer my wrist and it seems my finger tips are more controlling the stick rather than further up my fingers and sometimes my pinky doesn't quite reach, and its like my fulcrum is doing more work (in fact for rockier stuff I'm automatically reverting to a more triangular fulcrum between first and second finger).
It's so odd... It might not be the correct fix but something has certainly changed so I'll keep on experimenting for the next couple of weeks and see how band practises go.
I honestly thought about giving up so many times because of this, and now I may.. just may have fixed it.. finally. What's funny is nobody has ever spotted it because it really isn't obvious, it's not like I'm grasping the stick like a cave man.
Will post again when I'm sure and played on an A-Kit a few times.
PS, this is me doing the guru competition thing [yeah I know its rubbish but I only had a few hours to prepare ;-)]. I can sort of see on my right hand that I'm grasping a little with my pinky even though it looks loose (and its a slowly gentle piece so this wasn't really causing me any issue) : -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoVrWg2uxEs
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