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Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer George Lawrence Stone
Publisher: Alfred Publishing

What a lot of drummers do not realize, is the bass drum is still a drum like the snare or the toms. Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer George L. The bass drum has got to be one of the most important drums to develop on the drum set. In this episode, I am going to show you how to play the snare drum with matched grip. This means you should be able to control your strokes on the drum like you do on the snare. Along with realizing all this, I decided that I needed to spend more time with the practice pad, metronome, and classic drum books. Stone – Accents & Rebounds 25. Bass drum technique is something most drummers tend to ignore. Now I want to start this by saying this is not a Then (plays matched grip example) the majority of my stroke is wrist and then these three fingers just hold it in place and I use these, the thumb and index finger to guide the stick straight up and down and give me a little more control. Hey, Pat McLaughlin here from Snare Drum TV dot com. Gary Chester – The New Breed 23. After getting the feel for that, we will move down the Stick Control page from 1 to exercise 13. Instead, they focus on their stick control and rudiments. Stone – Stick Control For The Snare Drummer 26. We will play that pattern while re-voicing Stick Control page 5 thusly - R denotes bass drum, L denotes snare with left hand. Gavin Harrison – Rhythmic Illusions 24. I haven't had much progression with Chapter 6 of The Everything Drums Book but I have picked up Stick Control again and the variety of the single beat combinations makes for more interesting practice sessions.