More Stick Control-style paradiddle combinations in 3. I find these really useful: Once again here are the basic ways to do these on the drum set— the only way I do these. I basically never sit […]
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Paradiddle stick control patterns in 3
I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m using a lot of Stick Control-type stuff in practicing lately. Sometimes you just want things written as a sticking. Here I’ve written out some paradiddle variations in […]
Stick Control – CSD! version
UPDATE: Download link working. You’d think I’d have that part of it down. Everybody and his literal dog practices the first page of the book Stick Control, as do I— at least I teach it, […]
Hand motions for Stone flam studies
It’s a funny thing, there’s endless online conversation about how to play an open roll, and virtually nothing about flams. They’re off the radar for some reason. And with the book Stick Control, NOBODY every […]
EZ uptempo jazz method – 01
There is at least one other EZ uptempo jazz method— oh look, here’s another one— but this one is first in a series of similar things I’m writing now. If you learn to be creative […]
Stone on drumset: sixtuplet exercise
We’re doing quite a bit with the book Stick Control on the drumset these days. There are a lot of things I don’t like about the book— mainly that it’s based on abstract sequences of […]
Stick Control drumset exercise – RLRR-LRLL
Part 3 of this series, where the need to write out the exercises becomes perhaps more apparent. We’re playing a basic drumset orchestration of exercises from the first page of Stick Control by George L. […]
Stick Control drumset exercise – RRLL and variations
This little series presents a kind of writing problem; it has to be either very short or very long, each of which will hit resistance with users. I’ve done it the long way, simply because […]
Stick Control drumset exercise – basic
This is the type of thing I usually wouldn’t bother writing out, the instructions are so simple, but the more advanced variations are challenging enough that you’ll want to see them on paper. So let’s […]
7/8 practice rhythms plus stickings
This was partially covered in ’15 with a similar post, but I wrote this up, so I’ll post it. Small differences in format, or in which rhythms you choose to include, can make a difference […]