How To Practice Stick Control By George Lawrence Stone Part 1

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How To Practice Stick Control By George Lawrence Stone; Part 1😁 Drum lesson designed to save many hours and maybe years of work, by learning to effectively practice stick control for the snare drummer. Topics including finding the balance point, taps, half stokes and full strokes.
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[@tommaxwell429]

I have a genuine pet peeve about tempo for these exercises. I see a lot of KZbinrs talking about playing these at 150 bpm and then counting in 4/4 time. However, the book shows these written in cut time which effectively puts them at 2x 4/4 time. Why does it matter? Because if you play these in 4/4 time, line 1 for example, would be counted as 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & with each eighth note getting 1/2 count. This is not the case in Cut Time. If you want to count in cut time, each eight note would be twice as fast and the count for line 1 would be 1 e & a 2 e & a 1 e & a 2 e & a. Cut time was contrived, I think, for fast moving pieces to make them move without overextending the player trying to count the beat. In line 1, we would simply count 1 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . Why is this important? For two reasons I think. It makes it easier to count fast tempo pieces. When you start playing 16th and 32nd notes, you still count 1 2 1 2 while filling in the strokes needed between each count. Also, when communicating with other players, such as in these lessons, it can cause confusion if you say, "Play it at 100 bpm." This would be equivalent to 100 bpm in 4/4 time and 50 bpm in cut time. If you really wanted the player to play the piece or exercise as written in cut time, you would have to say "Play it at 50 bpm." I see few of these videos taking this into consideration. Granted they are "follow-along" type videos so it shouldn't be an issue following at the intended tempo. At the same time, from a theory and reading music perspective, I think it important for new players to truly understand what is written on the page or else Cut Time really has no meaning. I see a lot of videos counting incorrectly for the cut time as written. Just a pet peeve of mine. Your thoughts?

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

I think you can interpret the exercises many different ways - as 8ths', 16th's etc. But I do see your point. If you are referencing a specific book in a drum lesson and a specific page you should talk in terms of how it's actually written to avoid confusion. Because you're right - if I say 16th notes at 100 bpm that's very vague when the page is in cut time and showing 8th notes. I will try to pay more attention to detail next time.😀

[@tommaxwell429]

@@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity Thanks for the feedback. Actually, I am more trying to validate my own thinking than judge you! LOL! I get really confused on this stuff. To this date, I don't really understand cut time other than maybe trying to make the page look neater. More times than not when I am confused, it is usually me. Thanks again! I appreciate your videos!

[@venus6588]

Hello, I am working with a 70 metronome. How long should it take and how much should I increase the metronome? Do you recommend how many metronomes should I increase each day?

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

Thanks for your question. There are no hard and fast rules about metronome speed but generally speeding up the metronome about 10 beats or clicks at a time works well. Daily you should always start slow and warm up. Stone's suggestion in the book about playing each exercise 20x is a general suggestion. Play each exercise at a specific speed until it feels comfortable. Then speed it up. Keep track in a notebook, etc. of how fast you can play each individual exercise. Each day try to surpass your top speed from yesterday. You should try to work up each exercise as fast as you can. But if you feel yourself tightening up you're done with that exercise, at least for today. You'll find that you can play some exercises faster than others which is fine. You can speed up each day as quick as possible. Most days you' should probably just work on maybe 4 exercises at a time and really improve them rather than the whole page. Hope this helps! 😀😀Let me know if you have more questions of need more clarification.

[@venus6588]

@@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity Thank you very much, it was very useful and good information for me.