My left hand is still a bit stiff now when practicing Shirley Murphy 123 as well as Egg Beater, especially the former. The main reason for this handicap may be the very likely result from the rigidness of the left hand wrist as well as the muscles of the upper arm and both shoulders. Recently, I reviewed a tutorial DVD from Peter Erskin, a famous jazz drummer and noticed two useful warm-up exercises, which can fix this problem effectively.
One is to play 8 strokes starting from whichever hand and followed by the other, then 7 each, then 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 each with all the intervals evenly and balanced made, without the accents and the hand switch being noticed, nor the connections. Then add up from 1 back to 8 again. Shift in between nicely and fluently to the speed 200 of a quarter note.
The second is to play singles, doubles, and paradiddles alternately, seamlessly, and evenly. Just in the same way as above, let no leak and accent bewared. Play consistently until an 8 note reaches the tempo in metronome 160. I know these two methods may sound sort of old school, especially the former introduced by George Gabriel around 1968.
Nevertheless, your dexterity and fluency of both hands would be improved a lot if you do put those two into your daily warm-up routine. If you see winter, how far would be spring? Keep drumming!
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