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George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named the book one of the top 25 books of all-time. In the words of the author, it 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-level rhythms, moving through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this quite a few years ago on the recommendation of my drum teacher back then and it's without doubt the most useful drum book I've ever used. This book, a practice pad and a pair of sticks will keep you busy for weeks. The layout of it is just line after line of different rudiments and they recommend you complete them 20 times at a reasonable tempo before moving onto the next. One word of warning is that you do have to have a basic grasp of how to read music, but its not that tricky, just knowing how long each note lasts will get you through it.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When you start playing it's surprising that you need to work on several areas that aren't related: how to keep accurate time, independence and stick control (i.e. playing accurately at speed in various patterns)before you get to the stuff that shows you how to play like Buddy, Art, Bonzo or Joey. Keeping time needs some work with the metronome early on but then improves as a by-product of your other practice, so although it's the most essential part of drumming it needs least practice until you start playing in odd metres and compound time signatures. There's a million independence books out there, get a big one with a score size you can read comfortably and not too much text. Then get this.
It's a staggeringly dull book - original grey cover (I think it looks great), and pages of snare drum patterns.The first 3 pages just have a series of 2 bar eigth-note patterns without accents (you want accents? Buy his next book!)with various sticking patterns. Seems easy, then you realise how much you have to learn, grasshopper. Get through these at a good tempo and you can play the snare a bit.After that the patterns look at triplets (and switching from staight eighths into triplets), roll combinations and so on for 46 horrible pages. This is not a lot of fun to do, and it's always tempting to try a Play along with Coldplay book instead (even duller I suspect), but just play a short section every day, even on a pad while watching the telly with a click in one ear.There's no need to finish the book, but it will quickly show you your limits, and get you to play with speed and accuracy like Neil and Art.
If you want to go further, Stone's Accents and Rebounds book is tough, Joe Morello's Master Studies is a more balanced approach, Ted Reed's Syncopation is great (and absurdly cheap),Buddy Rich apparenrly wrote some book about this stuff, Alan Dawson's Complete Drummer's Vocabularly is a continuation while Tommy Igoe's Great Hands DVD is a much more user-friendly starting point. As I said at the start, this is a vital field of practice and Stone's book is fantastic at showing you what you need to be able to do.
It's a staggeringly dull book - original grey cover (I think it looks great), and pages of snare drum patterns.The first 3 pages just have a series of 2 bar eigth-note patterns without accents (you want accents? Buy his next book!)with various sticking patterns. Seems easy, then you realise how much you have to learn, grasshopper. Get through these at a good tempo and you can play the snare a bit.After that the patterns look at triplets (and switching from staight eighths into triplets), roll combinations and so on for 46 horrible pages. This is not a lot of fun to do, and it's always tempting to try a Play along with Coldplay book instead (even duller I suspect), but just play a short section every day, even on a pad while watching the telly with a click in one ear.There's no need to finish the book, but it will quickly show you your limits, and get you to play with speed and accuracy like Neil and Art.
If you want to go further, Stone's Accents and Rebounds book is tough, Joe Morello's Master Studies is a more balanced approach, Ted Reed's Syncopation is great (and absurdly cheap),Buddy Rich apparenrly wrote some book about this stuff, Alan Dawson's Complete Drummer's Vocabularly is a continuation while Tommy Igoe's Great Hands DVD is a much more user-friendly starting point. As I said at the start, this is a vital field of practice and Stone's book is fantastic at showing you what you need to be able to do.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Stick Control does what any good book in the field should do: it has a positive effect on every style you play. While this is true of many books on drumming, none have saturated the drumming culture so totally as this. Ask any professional drummer what exercises they use to practice and 95% will either be using this book or will have used it at some point. The first page alone, when properly mastered, will elevate any dummers ability to control their sound and express themselves more freely. That is after all the point of drumming and what defines good drummers: the lack of barriers between their ideas and their playing.
By working through these absolute fundamentals, the student will erode major barriers to their self-expression and be able to do what they want without worrying whether their hands can keep up. The exercises require discipline, hard-work and time. That is the reality of art and the reward for following this book is a more mature and unrestricted relationship with the intrument we all love.
By working through these absolute fundamentals, the student will erode major barriers to their self-expression and be able to do what they want without worrying whether their hands can keep up. The exercises require discipline, hard-work and time. That is the reality of art and the reward for following this book is a more mature and unrestricted relationship with the intrument we all love.
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Essential for practice and independence
From easy to hard stickings/Patterns an essential tool for everyone's practice routine.
It's not limited to hands only. Read more
It's not limited to hands only. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Otto Vanluchene
What are you waiting for?
Absolute must have for any drummer who is serious about drumming!
And for £6 what are you waiting for? Go and buy it NOW
And for £6 what are you waiting for? Go and buy it NOW
Published 3 months ago by Ben Taylor
this book is the drummer's bible
This book is the drummer's bible. A book that every drummer should study! Although this was written years ago, continues to be topical. This book is timeless.
Published 8 months ago by geo
Is there anything better?
Possibly the best book for any drummer ever. Just take a look at the inside cover to see the vast amount of the worlds best who recommend this book. Read more
Published 12 months ago by John Elman
probably the best, and most important drum book ever written
I bought this book on the advice of a friend, and I'm amazed at how much better at drums i've become. If you follow the simple instructions at the start, i. Read more
Published 13 months ago by David Farrell
An essential
This is one of the great books that every drummer should have and use, regardless of style (the others being Ted Reed's Syncopation and Jim Chapin's Advanced Techniques Vol 1 and a... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Swingin' Drummer
boring cover....brilliant book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book has been in print since 1935 but it is still essential to percussionists/drummers today. If you read the drumming press this book gets mentioned by the world's greatest... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr. M. Bright
Complete Control
This one book along with the DVD 'Essential Rudiments' by Jim KilPatrick is all any drummer needs to completely master the art of rudimentary drumming. I highly recommend it.
Published 23 months ago by Mr. John R. Ireland
Where is my book?
I ordered this book but it never arrived. Customer service rang me and I couldn't understand anything they said, their english was so bad. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Niall Mc Caffrey
CAN SEE WHY ITS NO. 1
This book is great.
played it for a week, sat behind my kit,(without thinking about it) rolls around the toms were 100% better.
played it for a week, sat behind my kit,(without thinking about it) rolls around the toms were 100% better.
Published on 18 Dec 2009 by Philip Adams
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