Howdy folks 
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I’m curious if anyone has put together an exercise regimen for finger drummers. I’d like to avoid repetitive strain injuries (and of course improve my playing in general!). In other areas of fitness, I’ve found that building muscle strength is a big factor in preventing injury, so I’m wondering if anyone has thought about specific training for finger drummers.
Thanks,
David
I do not. I do have a lesson with common sense advice, one of the main things is to simply not overplay. Not too long, not every single day etc. and also… strengthen your body over all. So strong arms, wrists shoulders upper body etc.
for me this has been the best advice.
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Fair enough. Thank you for the reply. 
-David
Here’s another related question: when finger drumming, how much of the motion should come from the wrist/forearm versus the fingers? I’ve noticed that on my dominant side the movement is more elbow/forearm-driven, while on my non-dominant side it’s more finger-based. Obviously finger drumming involves everything—fingers, wrist, elbow, and probably more—but is there a general sense of where the main up-and-down motion should come from?
Also, thanks for the link, which I watched.
Thanks!
-David
Mostly wrist, but I talk about this repeatedly in the lessons, the free beginner course, but also courses after that.
Thank you. I’ll review the earlier courses. Apologies for making noise.
-David
If you check out your performance on Crying Out Your Name, perhaps you’ll see what I see (or perhaps not!). Everything I’m saying is a generalization (especially true when your drumming action gets real), but I think it’s still primarily true: Your dominant (right) hand utilizes primarily the forearm with some wrist. Your left hand has more wrist, but with a decent amount of finger.
This is exactly how I play with respect to dominant (forearm/wrist) / non-dominant (wrist/finger) hands. Thus, my original question, which originates from managing discomfort in my non-dominant hand that almost surely relates to playing with too much finger.
So I’m back to being confused. But I think this close observation highlights that motor control is complicated.
With respect and in an attempt to learn. Thank you.
-D
PS Here’s an example that’s super “wrist-y”. Perhaps that’s the aspiration. 
PPS I’ll work on keeping developing wrists.
I think for super soft hits it might be more finger for me sometimes, but I always try to play from the wrist. Whatever happens then could move towards arm or finger, but the main movement for me is always the wrist movement. For very soft hits this wrist movement is super duper small too.