Open-handed drumming refers to a method of playing a drum kit.
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Method
The method involves not crossing the hands when playing the hi-hat (or ride-cymbal) and snare drum simultaneously as opposed to the more traditional way of playing drums which features crossed hands as the basic playing position. Absolute beginners often choose this open-handed way of playing as their first and natural attempt to drumming.
A number of drummers experiment and are comfortable with open-handed drumming but do not always play in that configuration. Steve Smith and Deen Castronovo have used the open hand technique for the Journey song "Don't Stop Believin'".
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Beginnings and development
Open handed playing was first conceived as idea with Jim Chapin's book Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer, and Gary Chester's book The New Breed which emphasize coordinated independence, leading with both hands and legs.
The first drummers who started open-handed playing are musicians like Billy Cobham, Lenny White, and Dennis Wilson, who started this way of playing in the 1960s and early 1970s either out of instinct (such as Wilson, who was naturally left-handed and therefore felt more comfortable leading with that hand), or out of experimentation, finding the advantage of not having to cross one's hands over in complex fills or playing the hi-hats in the traditional manner. Many proponents of the technique have also noted that the lack of a "roof" of another arm crossing over allows for the full range of the snare playing arm's stroke to be available, meaning that loud rimshots are more easily played. Others have pointed out the added conservation of energy attained by not having to fully raise and cross one's lead hand when playing, for instance, between the hi-hats and ride in faster passages. As a result, many drummers in more extreme genres have adopted this technique. Another advantage is a player's access to the floor tom while playing the hi-hats, a feat infamously difficult to pull off in the traditional technique without access to an auxiliary floor tom.
In 2008 and 2011 Dom Famularo and Claus Hessler wrote Open Handed Playing vol.1 and 2, which are lessons focused entirely on open-handed playing.
Open-handed drummers
First proponents
- Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis)
- Steve Upton (Wishbone Ash)
- Jim Chapin
- Micky Dolenz (The Monkees)
- Lenny White (Return to Forever, Miles Davis)
- Gary Chester
- Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys)
- Jürgen Rosenthal (Eloy)
- Art Tripp (The Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band)
Second era drummers
- Simon Phillips (Toto, The Who, Jeff Beck)
- Jimmy Copley
- Dom Famularo
- Scott Travis (Judas Priest)
- Bobby Jarzombek
- Claus Hessler
- Phil Gould (Level 42)
- Joe English (Wings)
- Rayford Griffin (Jean-Luc Ponty)
- Tom Hunting (Exodus)
- Geoff KennellyDamon;Farris Bros;INXS;The Image;The Driven:
Modern open handed drummers
- Caroline Corr (The Corrs)
- Sean Merrell (Ian Cooke (folk musician))
- Nate Kemner (The Nate Kemner Band)
- Neil Mavers (The La's)
- Nameless Ghoul (Ghost B.C.)
- Gorden Campbell
- Bobby Jarzombek
- Mike Mangini (Dream Theater)
- Will Carroll (Death Angel)
- King Coffey (Butthole Surfers)
- John Poe (Guadalcanal Diary)
- Fenriz (Darkthrone)
- Neil Sanderson (Three Days Grace)
- Carter Beauford (Dave Matthews Band)
- Michael "Moose" Thomas (Bullet for My Valentine)
- Shawn Drover (Megadeth, Act of Defiance)
- Sammy Siegler (Youth of Today, CIV, Rival Schools, Judge, Side by Side, Head Automatica)
- Duncan Arsenault (The Curtain Society, The Curtis Mayflower)
- Mike Bordin (Faith No More, Ozzy Osbourne)
- Todd Friend (H2O)
- Mika Karppinen
- Josh Eppard (Coheed and Cambria)
- Ginger Fish (Marilyn Manson)
- Gene Hoglan
- John Kiffmeyer (formerly of Green Day and Isocracy)
- Christopher Guanlao (Silversun Pickups)
- Zac Mayfield (Oh, Sleeper)
- John Zox (ZOX)
- Scott Mercado (Candlebox) (Brandi Carlile)
- Will Kennedy (Yellowjackets)
- Jason Finn (The Presidents of the USA)
- Rob Davidson (Pompeii)
- Ilan Rubin (Nine Inch Nails, Angels & Airwaves, The New Regime, Lostprophets, Paramore)
- Dave Dippenaar (Dark Matter, FearFall, Grindlock, PSordid)
- Mark Heron (Oceansize)
- Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck)
- Danny Carey (Tool)
- Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam)
- Curtis Hall (Grand Archives)
- Travis Orbin
- Ray Luzier (Korn)
- Eli Wallace (Million Hits)
- Blake Anderson (Vektor)
- Neil Mason (The Cadillac Three)
- Sam Bassal (Ocean Grove)
- Alex Rüdinger (The Faceless, Ordinance, Conquering Dystopia)
- Ryan Shutler (Lazarus A.D.)
- Ryan Strathie (Hungry Kids of Hungary)
- Robert "Sput" Searight (Snarky Puppy)
- Jamal Thomas (Maceo Parker)
- Chris Wee (And So I Watch You From Afar)
- Sal Abruscato (Type O Negative, Life of Agony, A Pale Horse Named Death)
- Simon Allen (The New Mastersounds)
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