Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

The original and best book for percussion stick practice. Can also be used to build up your double bass skills by following the patterns & exercises

After 30 years, I still use this book to stay sharp. This instills all the fundamentals of playing the snare and the strengthening needed to excel.

It’s the book i ordered. It came faster than expected. The spine rings seem like they will hold up with reasonable usage. Brutish or careless use, will not hold up for long. Don’t be a brute and you will get years with this book for daily practice.

Considered the “bible for beginning drummers”, this book guides you to practice sessions to get your drumming hands in check. I’m right handed so it was initially awkward to start drumming with both hands. With repetition, I am slowly getting more and more strength and rhythm in my left hand… about 59% there but much improved. The print is small though (and I am old) so may have to photocopy sections for enlargement. Highly recommend this and the 100 lessons book!

Great practice book!

The content is an excellent set of exercises for both new and experienced drummers. The format, however, is a series of (high-quality) scans of the print edition, which means if you're viewing it on a tablet or other Kindle reader, you have to treat each page as an image and zoom into the section you want to work on. This makes switching from page to page more than a little bit of a pain. In this case, it's sheet music, so I can kind of see the need for handling it the way that was provided. Still, there are modern music fonts in Unicode that are up for the task of rendering the content as text. Doing so would also reduce the size of the e-book considerably.

As for as I know, these are like Hanon for pianists, which is probably why you can't find them much cheaper than Amazon, even used. So buy it. Learn them. I don't there is a more thorough and systematic program for beginning and even veteran drummers.

Una joya de la percusión