Best Damn Beginner Drum Lessons

"Match grip", is the most natural, and simplest way to hold onto a drum stick. It makes sense for someone just learning how to drum, to hold on to your drumsticks this way. Many successful and professional drummers never switch to any other grip.

The most important thing to do first, is to find the fulcrum point on your drum sticks. The fulcrum point on your drumstick, is where you can balance your drumstick on your finger. See the photo below. When there is equal weight on each end of the drumstick, it will not fall off your finger. The fulcrum point, is where you will want to hold on to the stick by "pinching" it between your thumb and index finger. This is the main pressure point on the drumstick. See, drum lessons for beginners starts off pretty simple.

Once you have that, just wrap the rest of your fingers naturally around the stick. Check it out in the photos below. While there is some argument amongst drummers as to who tightly the remaining fingers should hold onto the stick, most would agree, that the thumb and index finger do most of the work here. They basically never let go, and control the majority of stick movement.

I've only included pictures of the left hand here (the right had was holding the camera), but basically the right hand is a mirror image.

Drum lessons for beginners is a good place to start.