Joining Stickings Together
- Practice stickings on a practice pad or snare drum until comfortable.
- Join two different stickings together over two bars (one bar for each sticking), making sure the transition is smooth and accurate.
- Join two different stickings together over one bar (two beats for each sticking), again making sure the transition is smooth and accurate.
- Swap between the two stickings at random until you can swap between the two at any point you desire.
- 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.
- Repeat steps 1 – 4 using two new stickings.
- Practice changing between many different stickings.
The following examples apply some of these steps to single and double stroke stickings.
Class Sessions
1- The 3 Strokes of Stick Propulsion
2- INTRODUCTION
3- A Basic Rock Beat
4- Rudiments of Music
5- Explanation of Notation
6- Characteristics of the Arm, Wrist and Finger Strokes
7- Fills
8- Note Values
9- Equipment
10- Exercises for Developing the 3 Strokes of Stick Propulsion
11- Understanding Note Values
12- Bass Drum Variations
13- Concept 3 – The Physics of Volume
14- Concept 4 – Co-ordinating "e’s" and "a’s"
15- Sight Reading Exercises
16- Using the Metronome
17- Repeat signs
18- Bass Drum Variations
19- Upstrokes and Downstrokes
20- Holding the Drum Sticks
21- First and Second Time Bars
22- Snare Drum Variations
23- 3 Steps to Stick Control
24- The Traditional Grip
25- Quarter Note Snare Drum Pulse
26- Rudiments
27- The Matched Grip
28- The Dot
29- Combined Snare Drum and Bass Drum Variations
30- Rolls
31- Practice Suggestions
32- The Tie
33- Hi-hat Openings
34- Triplet Stickings
35- Concept 1 – Minimalization
36- Grace Notes and Principle Notes
37- Syncopation
38- Sixteenth Note Hi-hat Patterns with Bass Drum Variations
39- Stickings Around the Kit
40- Sixteenth Note Hi-hat Patterns with Combined Snare Drum and Bass Drum Variations
41- Joining Stickings Together
42- Eighth and Sixteenth Note Combinations
43- Triplets
44- Hi-hat Openings
45- Dynamics
46- Accent Studies
47- Concept 2 – Playing ¼ Note Triplets
48- Offbeat Snare Drum Patterns
49- Additional Hi-hat and Ride Cymbal Variations
50- Shuffle Patterns
51- Swing
52- Go-go/Hip-hop
53- Latin American
54- Reggae
55- Funk Patterns
56- Odd Time
57- Solos