Fast Hands

He is a member here on tribe and an absolutely wonderful drummer. That is Arabic technique as opposed to the split finger which is a new entry in the Turkish style and technique. Faisal is Syrian I believe (maybe Lebanese) and plays with the technique typical of drummers from that area. That is the style of drumming that I like the most. It's all good, but there are differences. Thanks for sharing that.

Faisal rocks! And is the sweetest guy. I love his riqq playing.

Very clean. I like the turkish style too but sometimes it's refreshing to see this style because of it's clean and powerful phrasing which I think is better overall for dancers too. There is definitely a place for both in my book.

With hands like that, who needs a back up drummer!!! Awesome!

Thank you for sharing that!

Thanks for posting this. I was going to but got sidetracked. Faisal is too humble to let anyone know he put these up. Regarding the comment on the thread about Faisal's hands moving so fast you can't see them, the trick is he is not moving his hands...he is making it happen by brain power alone.

Totally awesome playing! Very nice all around, and clean as heck.

He is doing split finger some in the last part, if I'm correct; at the end. Those really fast fills during the last 1/4th of the video.

Hello everybody,
Thank you so much for your beautiful words. I just wanted to answer back to the questions about what you saw in the video. I am playing double strokes ONLY with my ring finger. The double Ka on the ring finger of the left hand is a popular style throughout the Arab world and it is especially played in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. Most of the Arab drummers of this age are playing this style. It is very effective in highlighting the QARSHI movement (a three stroke roll plus a single Tek and a single Ka at the end). For the last 20 years a few Syrian drummers developed this QARSHI movement further and made a whole roll out of it. I did not demonstrate that roll in the video on Youtue, but I will be posting some videos soon of my friends Haitham Ballat and Bashar Daghlawi. Haitham and Bashar are two of the drummers in Syria and Lebanon who developed this movement and it is really very powerful . Their style over all deserves to be introduced to the drumming community in the states. Just to let you know, if you thought I was playing fast rolls, those guys play even faster . I regard them in a higher caliber than me and I always look up to their playing.
Thank you all again and I am grateful I can play and make people happy about my playing.
Faisal

Thanks for posting the link to the video, Peter.

There's a Personal Performances podcast episode with Faisal at tinyurl.com/3v76mr

OK.
Last night Donovan uploaded a short video of Haitham Balat playing, it is the segment were he is playing that movement that I mentioned in my posting. he is doing it fast and the quality of the video is not high, so it might not be clear what is he doing.
You can type his name in the search box .

My sirian teacher, Tarek Iaeni here in Madrid plays this fast double ka and it´s just amazing, really sounds like a machine gun RA TA TA... He tells me the way to achive it it´s practice double, triple ka all the time.

Here is a video of him

www.youtube.com/watch