Gabrisapiens dijo:
Yo vi a Simmon Phillips diciendo en un video que el era zurdo, lo que pasa es que al tener doble bombo se volvio a lo que es ahora
mmmm... está raro porque en su página oficial, Simon dice que él es diestro de nacimiento, no zurdo, pero que desde pequeño empezó a hacer cosas con la zurda para lograr ser ambidiestro, pero la idea es que él no es zurdo, es diestro y ambidiestro para tocar la bataca, de hecho, su mano fuerte no es la zurda, es la derecha, él mismo prefiere llevar algunos ritmos con la derecha porque le salen mejor, como el jazz..
Esto es lo que dijo Simon textualment (Perdón x no ponerlo en español, yo mismo soy un mamón en inglés
, pero algo entiendo, lo pongo así como Simon lo escribió porque esto de que si el compa es zurdo o derecho siempre crea mucha confusión)
Question: Simon, I have always wondered. Are you left or right handed?
Simon:
I am naturally Right handed for most things however I really concentrated on becoming ambi-dextrous so I used to do a lot of things left handed when I was a kid. For me now though it is more comfortable to play drums left handed. I will be playing a lot right handed on this upcoming tour in Europe. You will see some different things!
Question: I'm a 34 year old drummer who has been playing for 10 years now (the last 6 professionally). I'm naturally left handed for most things but I play right hand lead on a right hand drum kit. Lately I've been going back to basics and really concentrating on groove/time and being able to play with a great pocket. I was just wondering if you feel that one's natural, stronger hand (left in my case) will always be better more natural than the other (what I mean by better is by having better time feel, grooves ... I don't care much for speed ???) Of course, the thought of relearning everything the other way would be a huge set back but if it helps, than maybe it'll be worth the effort. I wonder how much our leading hand is connected to the way we "feel" the groove. Thanks a lot for your time.
Simon: Well - in my experience I would say that the naturally stronger hand will always be the stronger hand, both in terms of technique and feel. However it depends how long you play with leading with your left or visa versa. For example -
I started playing right handed, traditional grip. I changed to matched grip and then I swapped from right hand lead to left hand lead. When I played right hand lead I was playing straight ahead, dixieland and swing music so that way of playing was very natural. When I changed to left hand lead I was not interested in playing straight ahead swing grooves at all - in fact I sweared never to play that style ever again - ha ha ha - so when I swapped the style I was playing was 16th note or 8th note based music - rock and fusion. Hence
I am not so comfortable playing swing leading with my left hand and that is purely due to lack of years playing that way. In fact
there are certain grooves which sound better leading with the left, and other grooves which sound better leading with the right. Like anything, you have to persevere, and you can train yourself. All I can say is the older you are the harder it is to learn things!