Stick Control

Stick Control is the most foundational skill set in all of percussion. These videos will integrate your mechanical and musical skills, and deepen your hand-to-hand coordination for the future. The patterns covered are the most common in all of percussion, and the toolkit you will build to play them will allow you to solve any future coordination challenges with ease.

Download and print this worksheet to help guide your practice. This is based on the first page of the original 1937 book, “Stick Control” by George Lawrence Stone, which is possibly the best selling drum book of all time. The patterns at the top are reorganized in my preferred manner, and the counts are my method for using the material.

Use the Workouts as a play-along practice session to guide you. Practice with them until you could turn on a metronome and remake the video yourself. There is no way to practice this “too much”.