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 …

A simple (but not too simple) warm-up playing a paradiddle with and foot ostinato

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

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 …