Another notebook item from the later 80s, as I get my act together following recent personal developments. Cleaning out my mom’s basement, I found a bunch of my old notebooks and music materials.
Basically, I’ve been doing all this for a long time— here’s a page summarizing my snare drum practice circa 1987:
My instructions to myself:
– Play from both Stone books [Stick Control and Accents & Rebounds]
– Slow down the things that are causing tension— don’t play faster than you can [play] relaxed— but push yourself— don’t play the same d*mn speed for six months.
– Cover as much material from the books as possible. [I’m not sure what books I meant, other than Stone— in my lessons I was working from Goldenberg, Cirone, Delecluse]
Identifying those rudiments by column, we have:
Paradiddles
Flamadiddles
Windmills
Flam taps
Inverted flam taps
Dragadiddles
Flamadiddles again
Flam drag-adiddles
Flam Accent #1
Swiss Triplets
Flam Drags
Flam Drag #2 – I made that name up just now
Flammed 5 stroke rolls
Paradiddle diddles
Flam tap-adiddles – another name I made up right now
Inverted flam tap-adiddles – no sticking indicated, I assume it’s connected to the thing above it
Ratamacues – my own form, inverted
Double ratamacues
Triple ratamacues
Double paradiddles
Flam double paradiddles
Pataflaflas
Flams
Ruffs
Four stroke ruffs
Tap 7 stroke rolls
Tap 5 stroke rolls – triplets
6 stroke roll – taps at the beginning
5 stroke roll – triplets
6 stroke roll – taps at end
6 stroke roll – usual format
Drag pataflaflas