Reversing a years-long boycott, I’ve been using the book Stick Control quite a bit for drum set applications lately. I guess it’s unavoidable that sometimes in playing the drums, we think in terms of stickings. […]
Category: Stone on drumset
Harmonic coordination improved – preparation
UPDATE: Here are some additional notes on practicing this. For some time I’ve been trying to work out a way to practice the very difficult “harmonic” coordination section of Dahlgren & Fine’s 4-Way Coordination without […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]