Want to improve your sticking consistency and strengthen your non-dominant hand? Play along with Heather Thomas and work your way through page 1 of one of the most important drumming books: Stick Control by George Lawrence Stone.
Heather practices it per the books instructions: repeat each exercise 20 times. The advantages to practicing this way is that you need to stay focused for a long period of time, which gives you an opportunity to relax in an almost meditative way.
Grab your practice pad, ideally in a place where you can stand, and make sure youre nice and centered in front of it. Youll be playing for about half an hour, so get comfortable and try to relax!
In this boot camp video, Heather plays it at 152 BPM. If this is too fast for you, take it at a slower tempo on your own until youre ready.
This page starts with singles, then goes into doubles, paradiddles, inverted paradiddles, single mills (reverse paradiddles), and a variety of other single and double stroke exercises.
