First, pick up the drumstick in your right hand. Pinch the drumstick between your thumb and the side of your index finger close to the fingertip. This is known as the fulcrum or the pivot point and is the only point in which you squeeze the stick. Now turn your hand over, palm facing up and let the handle of the stick rest in the center of your palm. Wrap your fingers around the stick comfortably holding it with all of your fingers. Be sure to avoid holding the stick at the very end.

Instead, leave one or two inches of the stick beyond your pinky finger. Turn your hands over again so that your palms are facing downwards and reach your arms forward. Turn your hands over again so that your palms are facing downwards and reach your arms forward. Make sure that your sticks are pointing straight out from your shoulders. And your arms and shoulders should be making a triangle shape with the stick and your body. Now with your arms and a triangle, take a big breath in.

And when you breathe out, let your right stick drop and hit the snare drum and bounce. And when it stopped bouncing, lifted back up. Take a big breath in and when you breathe out, let your left hand drop and do the same. Try that one more time. Take a big breath in. And when you breathe out, let your right hand drop on the snare drum.

Take a big breath in and when you breathe out Drop your left hand. Now you're going to play whole notes on the snare drum only alternating between your right hand and your left hand. So when the click track starts, you're going to be counted in and you're going to hit the snare drum and count the four. And then you're going to hit it with your left hand and count the 412. Ready, go. Right hand 234 left hand 234 right hand 234 left hand 234 right hand, two, three, or left hand 234 right hand 234 left hand 234 Now we're going to do the same thing with half notes.

So two clicks for each stroke. One, two. Ready? Go. Right? To.

Right. to, to write to. Tu, Tu, Tu. Now quarter notes. So one click for each stroke. One, two.

Ready? Oh. Let's try it again. One, two. Ready? Go.

Right, left, right.