Last month, I shared a short video featuring some hand/foot combinations using the Stick Control book. This application, inspired by Alan Dawson’s method, consists of the first 12 exercises of the “Single Beat Combinations” (you can also use the rest of the exercises, from pages 5 to 7) applied on the drumset in this way: The exercise … More Stick Control Revisited: Drumset Application

In this video, I play some hand/foot combinations using Stick Control by George L. Stone, an application inspired by the John Ramsay book The Drummer’s Complete Vocabulary As Taught by Alan Dawson. Next month I will post a series of exercises about these combinations. Stay tuned!

In this third and last part about 16th note quintuplets, I’ll show you how to apply the concepts and ideas of the previous lessons in a groove context. The first pattern consists of playing the 16th note quintuplets on the hi-hat (only with the right hand, without accents) playing the bass drum on the first and … More Quintuplets Drum Lesson 3