Stickings Around the Kit
- Practice a specific sticking on a practice pad or snare drum until comfortable.
- Play the sticking with the right and left hands on two different sound sources.
- Move the right and left hands randomly between two or more sound sources,experimenting with your own ideas.
- Use some of the resultant ideas as fills and make them part of your vocabulary. (Fills are explained in more detail in Section 3).
- Repeat steps 1 – 4 using a new sticking.
- Repeat steps 1 – 4 using combinations of two or more stickings.
The following examples apply some of these steps to single stroke sticking.