{"id":6396,"date":"2022-08-19T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T11:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:59:55","slug":"drums-stick-control-summer-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6396","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Drums – Stick Control Summer Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This post isn\u2019t so much a review of George Lawrence Stone\u2019s evergreen classic, which is rapidly nearing its centenary. I\u2019ve reviewed this before, elsewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead this post marks a historic achievement for me: I finished my summer holiday Stick Cobtrol challenge – play through the entire book, every exercise twenty times (as prescribed!) – start finish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s just after midday, on Friday, 19th June. And I\u2019m very, very chuffed! It\u2019s amazing how enjoyable these exercises become. They\u2019re hypnotic and meditative. Some are easy, some harder. And I guess what some find easy, others may find hard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funny thing is, of course – and anyone who knows Stick Control will know this – that you\u2019ll never truly \u2018finish\u2019 this stuff. I\u2019ve gone through it all one now. And in doing so I learned a lot. Some of it was how to interpret the notation, some of it was about the mechanics of stick control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I can come back to it, all of it, and mine it for so much more: try it with my feet! Try more focus on individual exercises at differing tempi. One thing I already found myself doing occasionally was adding in obvious variant iterations of ideas that suggested themselves but weren\u2019t actually in the book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The possibilities for continuing study with this book are, literally, endless. On the one hand that\u2019s daunting. Maybe even a little off-putting? But in the other, it\u2019s a call to continued study. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think instead of going straight back to aspects of Stick Control<\/em> – the flam section, for example, is one I could do with studying much more – I\u2019ll focus on working through the next book, Accents & Rebounds<\/em>. And then there are the two volumes of Joe Morello\u2019s Master Studies<\/em>.! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s great about finishing this book is that I first of all feel a sense of accomplishment. And secondly I now feel more confident teaching from the whole thing. but thirdly, and importantly, it reminds me that having all the drum books I own is all well and good. But only when I work through them do I get their benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, it\u2019s so obvious, it sounds idiotic to even say that. But the truth is that oft-times I e allowed myself to purchase educational drum books, and left it at that! Daft as that sounds. This is a wake up call to start working through my drum score library. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post isn\u2019t so much a review of George Lawrence Stone\u2019s evergreen classic, which is rapidly nearing its centenary. I\u2019ve reviewed this before, elsewhere. Instead this post marks a historic achievement for me: I finished my summer holiday Stick Cobtrol challenge – play through the entire book, every exercise twenty times (as prescribed!) – start … <\/p>\n

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