Timpani Grips: The French Grip
How to form a French grip:
1. Rotate your wrists so that your thumbnails are pointing towards the ceiling. Your thumbs should be on top of the mallet's shaft with your other finger underneath.
2. Mallet shafts and hands are parallel to or directed slightly outward from the forearms. The mallets should move in a relaxed fashion from the fingers, wrists, and arms.
3. Motion of the mallets are mainly controlled from the middle fingers and wrists, with occasional help from the ring fingers.
4. Strokes should feel similar to casting a fishing line.
1. Rotate your wrists so that your thumbnails are pointing towards the ceiling. Your thumbs should be on top of the mallet's shaft with your other finger underneath.
2. Mallet shafts and hands are parallel to or directed slightly outward from the forearms. The mallets should move in a relaxed fashion from the fingers, wrists, and arms.
3. Motion of the mallets are mainly controlled from the middle fingers and wrists, with occasional help from the ring fingers.
4. Strokes should feel similar to casting a fishing line.