Derbeno wrote:Here you go....including the Karate chop stroke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sao_s55R ... re=related
JohnnyConga wrote:They wont have hands to play with 10 years from now the way they 'beat um up!"...Im 62 still hitting hard but you learn to finesse the playing and how to save your hands..these guys dont study the drum ...they make it up as they go along, and it is a style in it';s own..but I dont see the longevity of it...IMHO...
Craig wrote:Concerning the "karate hand slap," you will notice that it is the only muffled stroke used. Every other stroke is open tone.
I worked with a trumpet player in the early 1970s who loved to play congas and he used the same technique. He was untrained as a percussionist. The "karate" stroke was the only way he knew how to muffle the head to get a closed tone slap with his other hand. We tried to keep him off the congas.
In my opinion the "karate" stroke is used by guys who never learned or mastered the heel and toe muffled strokes.
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