Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer

George Lawrence Stone

Nov 2013 · Alfred Music

About this ebook

George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.

Ratings and reviews

One of the best drum books of all time! George Lawrence Stone was a genius. Learning how to properly play this book has been the best decision of my drumming career. Thanks to Dom Famularo for teaching me the Free stroke, as taught to him by Joe Morello, who learned it from Stone. The principals of rebound and movement absolutely open up possibilities that no other techniques will.

Must read drum book from 1935 now digitized! The free sample alone is enough to blow your mind.

All I had to do is look at one page and I improve. Very well thought through

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