Cross hand drumming

[DeusExMachina]

What do you guys find easier? Cross hand or open hands? I find it easier to do open hands but I can cross hand nicely but not as easily.

I guess it varies song to song and people to people. Songs like Russian roulette would be easier to do open hand and to save stamina you would switch back and forth for songs like misirlou and FSW. One of my female friends doesnt like cross handing on DM because the way the hi hat and snare is positioned, her knockers/love melons are often in the way.

[Chi]

I am left handed. Therefore open handed drumming is the ony way for me on a right-handed kit.

[eddie]

Some songs, when I know there's a lot of hi-hats coming up (most Naoki/BeFOrU songs comes to mind), I try to cross-hand.

But the space is too screwy for me to do it all the time.

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Dammit, not signed on my account again, crap.
-BakaOrochi

[Kei.SG]

I play crosshand.

I don't find the space too small for me to play crosshand.
Maybe because I am small size Asian, that is why I can play crosshand easier.
Also, I notice when I play crosshand, my sticks are over each other, and not my wrists, like how I see many people play. Maybe my method is wrong

I only play open hand when there is alot of very very very fast move of highhat to cymbal, because I am lazy and save energy alot this way.

Songs like Russian Roulette need hand on tom, I just move my left hand under the right hand, it is ok for me. Maybe because I said that I am small =)

[Melchior]

Originally Posted by Chi

I am left handed. Therefore open handed drumming is the ony way for me on a right-handed kit.

Maybe I'm just crazy, but I'm left-handed and I still find open-handed more natural. Probably because at home when I air-drum to DTXMania I always do it crossed. However, my right hand doesn't even have half the stamnia, so I still end up doing open-hand most of the time~ =x

Originally Posted by Mayu

Also, I notice when I play crosshand, my sticks are over each other, and not my wrists, like how I see many people play. Maybe my method is wrong

Actually, that's probably closer to "correct". It's just that most people can't play stick-over-stick because the hi-hat and snare levels are so close. I tend to hit the snare pretty hard since I'm used to machines that give random misses, so if I did that, my sticks would hit all the time. However, if you have enough control to do stick-over-stick, then that's awesome for you. =)

[ThatsGobbles]

Originally Posted by DeusExMachina

One of my female friends doesnt like cross handing on DM because the way the hi hat and snare is positioned, her knockers/love melons are often in the way.

O_O More girls should play Drummania (or at least GuitarFreaks), it would make for more fun sessions.

I find that I am really horrible at open handed hi-hat, as evidenced by my failing Show Business today.

[Arctures]

The way that I learned to play the drums at an early age was right hand on hi-hat, left on snare. Of course this is hardly practical on drummania since everything is comparatively more compressed than on a real drumset.

[EternalDivinus]

I used to go cross-hand.

Then I got a KOC.

Now I have to go open hand.

[shungokusatsu]

I play the open handed because my left hand can't function properly if my right hand is busy hitting the Hi-Hat. Another reason is because I have a controller that is pretty much at a flat level.

[Kei.SG]

Originally Posted by Melchior

Actually, that's probably closer to "correct". It's just that most people can't play stick-over-stick because the hi-hat and snare levels are so close. I tend to hit the snare pretty hard since I'm used to machines that give random misses, so if I did that, my sticks would hit all the time. However, if you have enough control to do stick-over-stick, then that's awesome for you. =)

I don't know if I play with the "correct" method also, but I have a lousy video playing. Maybe you can help me see if it is correct? Video. Thank you =)

[KevinDidder]

I play openhanded, both in drummania and in real drumming. However, I'm right handed, which makes this really weird.

[nVGDlm_zk]

I open hand, for reasons already stated. Hi-hat snare levels, hands/sticks hitting each other, etc.

[Riji]

Open handed, I've never tried cross handed. I should try it out, maybe I wouldn't get blisters so easily on my dainty fag-hands. :<

[Esseph]

I'm used to open hand, but cross handing makes me feel so much cooler. I try and cross hand when im thinking during gameplay.

[NongDike]

i do it cross hand at first...
unfortunately i can't do it for some songs...so i start to learn playing with open hand:p
some songs would be easier when we played with open hand
but yeah...i feel cool when played with cross hand ^ ^