How to hold the stick and the position of the foot on the pedal

There are two ways of holding the stick:
1. Matched grip (see figure I)
2. Traditional grip (see figure II)

Matched grip having two holding different ways:

A. Closed hand / closed hand punches which rely heavily on the arm and wrist so that the blows became stiff and tired hands, speed was very limited.
B. Open hand / open hand where the thumb and forefinger are used to clamp the stick, while the three other fingers like a middle finger, ring finger and little finger play to push the stick. When the stick is pushed to touch drumhead, it will automatically stick will bounce back, use reflection to make the next shot (the third finger stick was pushed back). Do it repeatedly, as if she just dribble a basketball.






Traditional grip
The difference this grip is on the left hand, which clipped the stick is placed between the thumb and middle finger and ring finger. Thumb whose role is to encourage the stick. As for the right-hand how to hold it there is no difference, as it matched grip Traditional grip is harder to do than matched grip because it controls the left hand is much more complicated.






Beginning of the Traditional Grip
Traditional way of holding the stick is first used, starting from the year 1600.Actually, traditional grip is required for marching band drummer at that time where they put the snare drum by way tie (like bags) and the rope looped dibahu, so that the snare drum position tilted to the right. Because of its position skewed to the right, then left hand using a different grip with his right hand in order to achieve the snare drum (left hand like holding a pencil, but the stick is placed between two pairs of fingers and clipped to the thumb).
1840 the newly discovered drumset (snare, bass and tom-tom) where three drums played by one person. Because the traditional grip is a hereditary habit that originated from marching, then the traditional grip is also used on drumset.Then again, this habit continues to end in mid-1960, Ringo Starr (drummer of The Beatles) took a step forward by holding the stick at the same position (left hand as right hand), so as a person who holds two hammers. Who then called matched grip. It turned out that by using the matched grip so easily drummer can remove the power / energy is desirable and also a blow on his left hand became more accurate.
And finally they both can be used in accordance with the flow of the song and tastes drummer, to the tune that is soft and requires a touch, then the traditional griplah who 'spoke', while to play a groove / beat a solid and more modern songs (rock), matched grip the most suitable.


Pedal
How to pedal there are two kinds:
1. Heel down (see picture A)
2. Heel up (see picture B)








Both the position of the foot may be done in accordance with the flow of songs and drum players tastes. If you are a player of jazz (swing, jazz pop) then heel down is the right choice, but if you are a player or a fusion of rock and funk then heel up is required to create a more solid groove because of the speed and leg strength will increase.
Heel down is relying on the ankle to hit. So, you do not expect to obtain a hard blow to this position, just a waste of effort.
Heel-toe up using for the pedal so that all personnel can be deployed. To get more speed at the heel up, the position was reversed so that when the foot pedal (when the foot pedal not arrested but were released), then the pedal will return to its original position because it is pulled by a spring and you just stepped on it again to hit.