Another variation on the recent page of Stick Control-type patterns in 3/4, this time making a flamacue-type construction, with a flam right before the accent: Read the description of the previous variation for some technical […]
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Stick Control patterns in 3/4, with flams and accents
A little companion to the page of Stone patterns adapted into 3/4, from the other day— here I’ve added some flams and accents to the sticking patterns from that page: Quite a few of the […]
Stone-type exercises in 3/4
Oh, I thought I already shared this. No big woop, just some easy front-of-Stick-Control type exercises written in 3/4: Just play them on the snare drum, or root through the archives and find some drum […]
Variations on Stone flam patterns — triplets and 16ths
Lately I’ve been doing a lot with modulating between triplets and 16th notes, using similar stickings/coordination patterns. I’ve observed that it’s a thing with Elvin Jones’s drumming that he will play similar things in either […]
Stick Control on the drums: RLRL and LRLR
UPDATE: The link is now working. All reet, I’ve gotten my hallway and kitchen painted, and finished getting my teeth and gums viciously probed, if only for the time being, so let’s get back to […]
Stone method for uptempo jazz — 01
Most of the regular drumming literature is poorly adapted to the special conditions of very fast tempos in jazz; the practice materials are either too dense, or are triplet-based, which obviously isn’t going to work. […]
Afro 6/8: a Stone-based method
First, sorry if you want to read about stuff other than this Afro 6/8 thing— you can always do a fresh root-through of our voluminous archives— I happen to be working with this a lot, […]
More Stick Control in 5/4
Another way of using Stick Control in 5/4 came up in my practicing recently, as I was working on Mevlevia. What I’ve done is change the rhythm to three beats of 8th notes and two […]
Completism ad absurdum
x10,000. Go. It’s kind of interesting when someone runs a common concept to its logical conclusion, forcing you to examine the premise of the original thing. In this case, the Stick Control model of practice […]
Stick Control in triplets
Here’s a good library companion to my Stick Control implied rhythms piece. This was suggested to me by my friend Steve Pancerev— I’m not sure if it’s something he thought up, or if it was […]