THE MOELLER METHOD
5. The moeller method! This method is been made famous by the great drum
teacher Jim Chapin. People say he would make his pupils do the triplet
exercise in my VIDEO to the right for two weeks so they would get the feel of
what the Moeller method is all about. One of the best ways to get the feel of
the Moeller method is to play a single stroke triplet with one hand on a snare
drum, and one hand on your pant leg. SEE VIDEO. After a while you should be
able to hit the drumstick on the drumhead on the first stroke, tap using your
fingers, and tap the drum again on the way back up. The moeller method
depends upon tapping the last stroke or the roll with the stick angled down,
and with your wrist on the way back up.  I highly recommend the Jim Chapin
DVD on this method. There is way to much information involved in this
method to be covered in this paragraph.  
THE DRIBBLE OF THE DRUMSTICK
6.This is the one method I've been working on a lot lately. You throw down the
drumstick and then loosen your grip to let the drumstick dribble on its own. In
the triplet exercise of this method count 1 on the first stroke and let the
drumstick play the next two strokes with a very little help from your middle
and ring finger while bringing your hand back up for the next stroke. 1 tap tap 2
tap tap 3 tap tap 4 tap tap.  You must first find the balance spot on the
drumstick that gives you the most rebound. Throw the stick down loosen your
grip and let the stick play the next two strokes. The idea is to make the
drumstick dribble, just like a basketball using your middle, and ring fingers as
springs.  SEE VIDEO!
THE DOWN STROKE
8. The down stroke. One of our drum teachers in a drum corp. I played with
happened to be a judge for the drum corp. competitions. He would make you
whip the drumstick till it hit the drum head and then grab it so the tip of the
drumstick was exactly 1 inch above the drumhead. You had to be able to hear
the whooshing sound the drumstick made when it cut though the air as you
whipped it.  SEE VIDEO!
Lesson # 2
The moeller method can be easily understood  
by isolated by using one hand on the drum and
one hand on your leg!