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Stick Control in 7 by Ralph Humphrey

  • January 15, 2024
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A little item from an old issue of Percussioner International magazine, which I just found in my mom’s basement— the Steve Smith issue, from November 1987.  Here Ralph Humphrey shares some paradiddle-based stick control patterns […]

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Stick Control implied rhythms

  • February 27, 2012
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I hope you dig all of this Stick Control stuff; I just happen to be working with this book a lot right now. One of my reservations I’ve always had about it- about the way […]

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Stone on drumset: sixtuplet exercise

  • October 19, 2017
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We’re doing quite a bit with the book Stick Control on the drumset these days. There are a lot of things I don’t like about the book— mainly that it’s based on abstract sequences of […]

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Stone-type exercises in 3/4

  • February 1, 2015
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Oh, I thought I already shared this. No big woop, just some easy front-of-Stick-Control type exercises written in 3/4: Just play them on the snare drum, or root through the archives and find some drum […]

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