"Stick Control for the Snare Drummer"

[The Dude]

I ordered this book the day it was reffered to me and I'm on the first page and can't help but be excited about how much this will help, I've practiced the first page and plan to spend a week on it. This is some rich workouts. Rebuilding my foundation!

[Jedi3]

Stick control is an incredible book.  There's sooooooooooo much more you can do with it.   

[The Dude]

That's good to hear, I think it was jojo meyer who said he used it for his feet too. I also bought master studies by Joe Morello which I will use if I ever get through this book,lol

[allaround]

The one from jeff queen???

[The Dude]

George Lawrence Stone wrote Stick control for the snare drummer.

[mingusfingus]

This book is like an alphabet. Even if you manage to get through the whole book I know drummers who used just the first page for 15(!) years of everyday practice. There are so many ways to use the book to develop hands, feet, overall coordination. You can put your kick between every note, you can combine 2 or more different patters for your hands and feet separately, you can write just random accents for each pattern, play this pattern not horizontally( i.e. between your hands) but vertically. You can play right hand swing, left foot clave(or straight i`s, ands or e`s) and go through all the patterns but R for your right foot and L for your left hand, than the same but with accents. Really, your imagination is the limit. Congrats on buying the book, the investment worth it. 

[JFunky]

This book is like an alphabet. Even if you manage to get through the whole book I know drummers who used just the first page for 15(!) years of everyday practice. There are so many ways to use the book to develop hands, feet, overall coordination. You can put your kick between every note, you can combine 2 or more different patters for your hands and feet separately, you can write just random accents for each pattern, play this pattern not horizontally( i.e. between your hands) but vertically. You can play right hand swing, left foot clave(or straight i`s, ands or e`s) and go through all the patterns but R for your right foot and L for your left hand, than the same but with accents. Really, your imagination is the limit. Congrats on buying the book, the investment worth it. 

...absolutely man.  Its crazy how many of the books today really go back to Stick Control.  Stick Control is like the 10 Commandments of drumming. LOL

[The Dude]

For it to still be relevant after 75 years is proof enough for me that it's the real deal.

[Jedi3]

This book is like an alphabet. Even if you manage to get through the whole book I know drummers who used just the first page for 15(!) years of everyday practice. There are so many ways to use the book to develop hands, feet, overall coordination. You can put your kick between every note, you can combine 2 or more different patters for your hands and feet separately, you can write just random accents for each pattern, play this pattern not horizontally( i.e. between your hands) but vertically. You can play right hand swing, left foot clave(or straight i`s, ands or e`s) and go through all the patterns but R for your right foot and L for your left hand, than the same but with accents. Really, your imagination is the limit. Congrats on buying the book, the investment worth it. 

Cosign...just the first page is nearly limitless.  If this doesn't bust your head wide open you should probably think about another instrument, like a piccolo or something.

[The Dude]

I don't understand why people say to stop playing when your arms start to tense up. That happens everytime to me, it dosnt take much to do it, I felt like I was building muscle