Drum Lesson: 40 Ways to Play a Single 'Stick Control' Exercise

Get Your Free DRUM! Mag Pack ► https://pro.drummagazine.com/free-dru... In this lesson, we learn some new ways to interpret Stick Control to take it far beyond just a snare drum technique book. It can be expanded to develop your interdependence, feel, and timing, create beats and fills, and can be used to learn some very advanced skills you haven’t even imagined yet. 

Though any of Stone’s patterns can be expanded upon similarly, we’re going to use just one sticking for all of these exercises to make it easier to understand how the basic idea is being revoiced, stretched, and morphed. The sticking is #6 from page five of Stick Control, a paradiddle inversion of RLLR LRRL that lends itself to both grooves and fills. It has been used inventively by great drummers like Steve Gadd. It is sometimes referred to as an “inward paradiddle” or the “diddle in the middle” variation because the double strokes occur in the middle of the pattern. 

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