Who said George Lawrence Stone ‘Stick Control’ is only for hands?
You can use this fundamental book to practice and have a lot of fun playing Stick Control exsercises with feet too.
Here some quick tips for a routine, be creative and find yours.
1. Use pages 5,6 or 7
2. Play exercises with double bass pedal, kick/hi hat and or simply to the floor
3. Play exercises as prescribed by Stone (20 times) but also practicing every bar 4/8/12/16 times: those are the standard measure lenght you’ll deal to while playing
4. when you have …

It’s a Fundamental Rudiment, is a foundation itself of drumming. One of the best drums instructor and musician explains how to develope your single stroke roll.
Marko Djodjevic, how to develope your single stroke roll

202 Hybrid rudiments listed by ninjadrummist.com
Alternated Cheese Pataflafla
Alternated Pataflafla
Alternated Pattyacue
Alternating Pattys
Alternating Swiss Army Triplet
Berger Lesson 25
Blurz
Book Mark
Book Report
Casey Claw
Change Ups
Chatachichi
Cheese
Cheese Accent
Cheese Back Flip
Cheese Chain
Cheese Chutichuhs
Cheese Chutra-Cheese
Cheese Double Paradiddle
Cheese Flama Chuck
Cheese Flama Chucka Diddle
Cheese Flamacue Swiss
Cheese Fubars
Cheese Inverted Threes
Cheese Paradiddle
Cheese Paradiddle-diddle
Cheese Paradiddle-diddle-a
Cheese Pataflafla
Cheese Roll
Cheese Triple Paradiddle
Cheese-Ka
Cheesea Flamacue-Diddle
Cheeseacue
Cheeseacue Drag
Cheeseacue Five
Cheeseacue-Diddle
Cheeseafladdle
Cheesecha
Choo Choo
Churruckitahs
Chut-Cheese
Chutichuhs
Chutra-Cheese
Chutuddas
Deviled Eggs
Didda-let
Diddle Egg Five
Diddle Herta
Diddle-Flafla
Displaced Flamacue
Doctor Rion
Doctoral Thesis
Double Accented Single Flam Drag
Double Flam Drag
Double Flam-Flam Paradiddle
Double Flamacue
Double Flammed Mill
Double Flammed Swiss Army Triplet
Double Ratamaflam
Drag Patty
Dragalet
Dragateenth
Eggbeaters
Five Stroke Paradiddle
Flaflam Drag
Flam Accent Drag
Flam Beaters
Flam Beats
Flam Change Ups
Flam Cheese Paradiddle
Flam Double Paradiddle
Flam Drag Flafla
Flam Drag Paradiddle
Flam …

Hybrid are ‘unofficial’ rudiments not listed in Pas (Percussive arts society) 40 fundamental rudiments list compiled by PAS International Drum Rudiment Committee. Usually are created combining the official rudiments in new way and sticking patterns. There’s no official list of this rudiments and new hybrids are constantly added, but there are some good list accepted by drummers community.

Rudiments are basics of drumming. There are 40 fundamental rudiments, coded by Percussive arts society (PAS), and more and more hybrid rudiments, created by drummers’ community.
Percussive Arts Society forty fundamental rudiments
Single Stroke Roll
Single Stroke Four
Single Stroke Seven
Multiple bounce roll rudiments
Multiple Bounce Roll
Triple Stroke Roll
Double stroke open roll rudiments
Double Stroke Open Roll
Five Stroke Roll
Six Stroke Roll
Seven Stroke Roll
Nine Stroke Roll
Ten Stroke Roll
Eleven Stroke Roll
Thirteen Stroke Roll
Fifteen Stroke Roll
Seventeen Stroke Roll
Diddle rudiments
Single Paradiddle
Double …

Rudiments are for drumset what scales are for piano. You can can use them to increase tecnique skills, stick control and a lot of other stuff. But they are also a walhalla of ideas when they are used in musical way on the drumset.
On Berklee shares (online free lessons) there an interesting preview of “Rudiment Grooves for Drum Set” written by the associate professor Rick Considine. The preview is a .pdf multimedia document, and even if is only a preview, is full of good concepts.
* Single …

Updated april 24 2010
A Cadenza (italian for cadence) is “an extended, improvisatory style section inserted near the end of movement. The purpose of a cadenza is to give singers or players a chance to exhibit their technical skill and – not last – their ability to improvise. Since the middle of the 19th century, however, mostcadences have been written down by the composer”. (from Lilypond music glossary)
A drum cadence: “a drumline piece played in a parading marching band between or in place of full-band pieces”. Cadences, are also: …

I like flams. As much i hated in past. Flams are good in warm-up as they are in execution. Don’t abuse, as usual, ‘cos too much notes are only too much notes and, as great musicians say, “less is better”. But when you’re practicing sometimes “much is better”. I wrote down some basics exercises i like to play on practice pad as well on the snare: rudiments full of flams. Not so hard, just a warm up.
Download Flams games file (.pdf file)
Acciaccature o ‘flams’: si tratta di abbellimenti molto utili …

Hi, new and updated version of ths post is here: Cadences, rudiments, drumline sheet music