Perky Percs

HELLO PEOPLE

just feeling random, but i think we should learn how to do 4-mallet grip! like properly, and without injuring our hands or arms or something!! after all, for cadenza, y'all may need to play 4 mallet stuff. i used 4 mallets in sec one for cadenza before, but looking back, i realise i was playing... wrongly. and i haven't been playing 4 mallets ever since T.T which is NOT GOOD!

so, there are quite a number of different grips (for holding 2 mallets in one hand), like for example the burton grip or stevens grip. y'all know kenneth, one of the percussionists at rwinds? yeah i think he used the stevens grip for coda, if i'm not wrong. (so i may be wrong.)

(well basically all the rwinds perc people are really quite pro, so next time after you graduate from RG - not too far away! - join rwinds at least once, cos the experience is really good, and you'll really learn alot, and make great friends too.)

so here are a few websites you can explore to learn more!

burton grip http://www.bknights.org/ensembles/bkpe/pdf/BurtonGrip.pdf
stevens grip http://www.vicfirth.com/education/articles/howarth.html

maybe y'all can try burton grip first? it seems more familiar, in terms of holding the mallets i guess. of course if you want to try stevens there isn't any problem. but anyway the 4-mallet grip is really quite important, and i read on a percussion website before that actually, we should learn the 4-mallet grip once we start learning mallets, cos it's just as important as the usual 1 mallet per hand grip. :D yup!

do take time to try it out okay! and maybe we'll make a trip back after the new sec ones join yall - eh must tell us when they join ok! :)

love,aliza. (IMISSYALL BOOHOOO T.T)