Stone & Son Stick Control for the Snare Drummer Stone George Lawrence

George Lawrence Stone's "Stick Control" is "the classic" among the sticking methods, often referred to as the "drummer's bible". As early as 1993, it became the number one book in Modern Drummer magazine of the top 25 books ever published.

In the author's words, Stick Control is the ideal book for achieving control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, sensitivity, strength, endurance, precision in execution and coordination. George Lawrence Stone pays particular attention to the weak hand. Hundreds of basic to challenging rhythms that take you through all categories of single-beat combinations as well as triplets, short roll combinations, all types of flams, dotted notes and short roll progressions.