It's a big improvement in all the stuff that was mentioned, except for how you hold your sticks with the left hand, that still looks retarded, sorry. Your left hand is still a little bit high, but I think the pad is a little lower than a snare drum should be so that's probably the real issue. As for shifting horizontally from an L to a V like I mentioned, it looks really good when you're not playing, but when you play, once in a while your right hand flattens out and the result is a huge gap between your beads. Check out the vid around :45 for a good example of this happening. You've also got a bit of a slice on the right hand. Slices usually take some serious time with a mirror to fix. As for your left, you've made a good effort and you've gone from _ to about / there. I'd say keep shooting for |. Sorry but ASCII is the best I can do to describe it for you. You've made a pretty good amount of progress, keep it up.

jedi knight with athf, funny stuff

snare4lyfe, your technique has improved tremendously over only two vid takes but the left hand still needs a bit more work......keep the thumb straight up.....dont let it shift back to an ashtray.it happened towards the end.........since everyone is doing it i might as well avoid opening a new thread..qucik criticism on this please......i know the roll at the end was terrible.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jsW5IrLw7E

here is another video of the same excerpt at the end and 2 warm ups at the begining. i have had a week or so of work so i hope you can see improvements. still, comments on anything are what im going for and i know i rushed the second run through of the second warm up.

here is the link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_llTJF3R-Qg

You're still catching water in your left hand. And you need to get your body closer to the pad. Practicing with the pad so far away from you can create bad habits.

you look really uncomfortable with the left hand traditional

me or snare 4 lyfe?

snare 4 lyfe

oh ok......any advice for me?

nah you look pretty good especially (from the looks of your signature) its your first year on snare