my line uses tom aungst sticks and we overlap about 1/3 the width of the tape. when the tape is on the stick, it looks like the same amount of the tape is overlapped as not overlapped, if you get what i mean. also, we leave a gap for the fulcrum, so when we do stick changes around our back, we can feel where the fulcrum is and not have to look down. some people like bigger or smaller gaps also...it's up to the player. i tape mine from the bead, to 1/2 way through the H in firth, then from the end of the flag to the butt.

also, about sticktape. center snare at my school was also center snare for raiders the past 2 seasons. they're sponsored by sticktape and she said she hated it and so did everyone else on the line.

the whole stick, there's a trick for no slip, roll the stick on the ground where i'ts really gritty...

Snares - Black tape from butt to tip overlapped at about 1/4 the width of the tape on each pass. Than wrapped again with red tape at a very high angle so that the black shows through. (Our colors are red and black)

Tenors - Same as snare except grip area is exposed, we use vegas so we leave the grip area exposed so we can tell the snare and tenor sticks apart easier since the vega's are basically a drumstick.

Bass - No wrapping - we use alluminum shafted mallets with the rubber gripping area (vic firth?) so tape is not needed.

I have used both electrical tape and stick tape and I couldn't really feel any difference at all. The only little thing was you could feel that it was less slippery, but while playing, I didn't notice the differece

We tape the entire stick. I prefer to leave spaces in the grip, just becuase my hands are more comfortable gripping wood rather than tape, but for the sake of uniformity we tape the whole thing. I think it is becuase Shon is really old and really lame....

We do stripes around our bass sticks,snare,and tenor sticks and they sound exactly the same there is no difference in sound.

we tape about an down to the the fulcrum and then stop. we barley overlap... the stick doenst need a bunch more wieght