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Alternating singles vs. other stickings

  • September 30, 2019
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This is an elementary question I often get from students, when learning different ways of playing 16th notes: why learn to play a paradiddle when you can do the same thing with alternating singles? They […]

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On the varieties of stickings

  • August 21, 2012
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Here’s a nice geekish piece at by E.W. Flack at The Drumslingers, in which he goes in depth on the history and usage of the three basic sticking methods in US drumming and its derivatives– […]

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