Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
Snare drummers have told me it's because the back end of the stick can get caught in the cuff. Not good!

Speaking of snare drummers, did you see when the SLOT snare drummers did some backsticking? Never seen that before in competition.

At 2:56 you can see backsticking, and at 6:03 you can hear the timbre of the snares changing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kc...&start_radio=1
THANKS for that. WAY back in high school, my feeble abilities on the clarinet were forgotten so long as I agreed to play the snare drums in the marching band (appreciated by the dedicated wind players, but to the dismay of the REAL drummers).

But, since the VERY first time I could distinguish the sound of of the snares in a Highlands Pipes and Drums Corps from a US marching band on one of my dad's 78 rpm recordings, that marvelous and different sound of the Scottish snare drums has attracted me ALMOST as much as a cluster of (well tuned) pipes.

And, just what is "backstitching?"