Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "leffelejon" <gadda@k...> wrote:
> ... i found out yesterday about 
> upstroke / downstroke technique. In other words
> one hit when the stick goes down and one hit
> before it goes up.

I've looked at the video and read the words, and I have a feeling 
this is either the same as (or closely related to) the Moeller 
technique (or "two for one" as Dave Weckl calls it). This is where 
you get multiple (triplets or even sixteenths) on a single "wrist" 
stroke. There's a couple of good videos of Jim Chapin doing this on 
Dom Famularo's "cyberlesson" site on VicFirth.com here:

http://www.vicfirth.com/education/drumset/domfamularo.html

Given that the technique doesn't rely on rebound, it should make no 
difference as to how well this works on real heads, mesh, or gum 
rubber.

-- S