{"id":16120,"date":"2019-06-21T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=16120"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T17:56:52","slug":"how-to-improve-your-cross-stick-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-improve-your-cross-stick-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dude&#8217;s Guide To Improving Your Cross Stick Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNlzuETpp-A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges is The Dude. But in the world of drumming, Harry Miree holds that title.<\/p>\n<p>What you&#8217;re about to read will improve your drumming in less than five seconds. It&#8217;s something anyone can do, and you can do it right now. Sound impossible? It&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Harry credits Carter Beauford and Todd Sucherman for this trick, but the best way to improve the sound of your rim knocks is to <em>flip the stick around and use the butt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yep. That&#8217;s all it takes.<\/p>\n<p>Harry uses his Vic Firth logos to help him position his stick for the fullest sound. He aims right for the middle of &#8216;American Classic&#8217; text.<\/p>\n<p>To get used to the quick stick flip, play a simple groove where you switch back and forth from snare hit to rim knock for a few bars at a time. Do it until you get comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about instant gratification for very little effort!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you&#8217;re about to read will improve your drumming in less than five seconds. It&#8217;s something anyone can do, and you can do it right now. Sound impossible? It&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":16313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4027,4018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hand-technique","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16120"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44516,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120\/revisions\/44516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}