Keyboard Percussion - Expressive and Technical Parameters

1. Other Techniques

1.1. Power balls

1.2. Bowing

1.3. Pitch bending (Vibes)

1.4. Playing with fingers

2. Number of Sticks

2.1. 2-sticks

2.1.1. Matched Grip

2.1.2. French Grip

2.2. 4-sticks

2.2.1. 4-stick Grips

2.2.1.1. Traditional

2.2.1.2. Burton

2.2.1.3. Musser-Stevens

2.2.2. Rotations

2.2.3. 1-handed rolls

2.3. 5/6-sticks

3. Damping

3.1. Pedalling

3.1.1. Dampened notes

3.1.2. After-pedalling

3.1.3. Half-pedalling

3.2. Mallet damping

3.2.1. Dead strokes

3.2.2. Hand-to-hand damping

3.2.3. Slide damping

3.3. hand damping

4. Sticks

4.1. Hard non-wound

4.1.1. Rubber

4.1.2. Metal

4.1.3. Wooden

4.1.4. Polymer

4.2. Butt end

4.3. Yarn

5. Sticking

5.1. Doubles

5.2. Hand to hand