Drum Lesson: 40 Ways to Play a Single 'Stick Control' Exercise

Get Your Free DRUM! Mag Pack ► pro.drummagazine.com/free-dru... In this lesson, we learn some new ways to interpret Stick Control to take it far beyond just a snare drum technique book. It can be expanded to develop your interdependence, feel, and timing, create beats and fills, and can be used to learn some very advanced skills you haven’t even imagined yet.
Though any of Stone’s patterns can be expanded upon similarly, we’re going to use just one sticking for all of these exercises to make it easier to understand how the basic idea is being revoiced, stretched, and morphed. The sticking is #6 from page five of Stick Control, a paradiddle inversion of RLLR LRRL that lends itself to both grooves and fills. It has been used inventively by great drummers like Steve Gadd. It is sometimes referred to as an “inward paradiddle” or the “diddle in the middle” variation because the double strokes occur in the middle of the pattern.
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[@scottmoyer1357]

Thanks for taking George L Stone's 1935 basic stickings and conceptualizing them on the drum set providing the students of drumming with many so-called "thinking outside of the box" options. The majority would not be this creative with a single sticking and you have wired many of the possibilities.

[@simonaddis1355]

This is literally THE most useful drum video I have ever watched!! Great work!

[@DRUM]

Thanks! Glad you got so much out of it.

[@paul_limbo]

This is one of the best drumming educational video I've ever seen and I've seen up in thousands... You guys are awesome, thank you!

[@DRUM]

Wow, thanks!

[@kennethmurphy1652]

I was just saying that to myself. It's freaking gold, how the heck can it be done any better?

[@anichkov.zagrebin]

#1 1:31 #2 1:46 #3 1:55 #4 2:10 #5 2:33 Single flammed mill #6 2:50 Book report #7 3:11 Foot patterns #8 4:00 #9 4:16 samba pattern #10 4:41 baiao pattern #11 5:13 hands and foots displacement #12 6:03 bass displacement #13 6:44 bass and hi-hat displacement #14 7:27 Gavin Harrison like pattern #15 7:51 double speed #16 8:16 double speed w/flammed diddles #17 8:50 triplets #18 9:18 4 over 3 #19 9:52 choo choo 4 over 3 #20 10:22 3/4 polyrhythm #21 10:58 5/4 #22 11:45 Beats #23 12:19 #24 12:43 #25 13:00 #26 13:14 #27 13:31 #28 13:46 #29 14:12 Fills #30 14:50 #31 15:16 triplet fill #32 15:48 hand-foot #33 16:17 1+2 #34 16:35 shuffle #35 16:48 orchestrated shuffle #36 17:36 shuffle groove #37 17:57 open hi-hat variation #38 18:38 “Rosanna” bass pattern #39 19:12 strait ride groove bass 3 over 4 #40 19:57 bell 3 over 4

[@davidsharfstein8061]

Absolutely terrific lesson. Clear, concise and the sound is great. Thank you so much.

[@egbert-janboetkreiken4241]

Class act and perfect ( modest) teaching , i am impressed with example(-s) and mastery of execution. Truly valuable, thank you so much.

[@kennethmurphy1652]

Amazing! Thanks so much!

[@mecdrum7]

I have to watch this over and over get the combinations

[@jimts2419]

This video is pure gold!!!

[@andresb.5906]

This is extremely useful man. Thanks

[@frankcampbell4154]

THANKS FOR THE GREAT VIDEO. VERY USEFUL AND HAS JUST OPENED A DOOR WIDE OPEN WITH IDEAS THAT ARE MUSICAL

[@lechthaler100]

So great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RA2Music]

Stone’s Stick Control is a masterpiece and here we see why: It is infinitely adaptable. In this lesson he shows ways to use a single SC exercise in at least four different styles of music often with variation. Consider that there are 72 exercises on the first three pages of the book alone and you quickly see how limitless the possibilities are. Much like Ted Reed’s Syncopation, you can spend a lifetime working on exercises for any technique you could possibly wish to develop. Be creative and the sky’s the limit.

[@chrisjones9115]

I wish someone would take stick control and cover the entire book with a video to go along with it for people like me. Meaning, I can read music at a beginner level, maybe intermediate sometime, but there are several lessons in the book stick control where I’m not 100% if I’m even playing it correctly. I want to do the lessons like George told us to, doing each exercise 20 times. I do know at 20 times each that 960 measures just on the first page alone! I can’t imagine where I’d be if I could do ALL exercises that way!!

[@pauldrumwell4922]

Thorough.

[@TheSaneMe]

just wow!

[@Ticker2]

I was hanging and digging it till 5:15 and then 🤯

[@anichkov.zagrebin]

Hip phrase at 15:25

[@jimreinking1243]

Time to shed!