The course

The book is one long run of 867 numbered stickings with no chapters and almost no instructions. This course keeps Stone's order exactly and adds the two things the page cannot: a division you can hold in your head, and a stopping point.

Stone's book in three parts · 289 lessons · 0% complete

Lesson 1 · Single Beat Combinations

Part 1 · Foundation — 0 of 3 tracks done · №1–3 · p.5

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Part 1 · pp.5–130 / 63 lessons

Foundation

Singles, doubles, paradiddles, triplets and the first short rolls

63 lessons
189 exercises
6 sections
≈9 weeks at a lesson a day

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Part 2 · pp.14–29Coming soon

Rolls and flams

The flam vocabulary at scale, and rolls in compound time

120 lessons
360 exercises
4 sections
≈17 weeks at a lesson a day

Part 3 · pp.30–46Coming soon

Meters and progressions

3/8, 2/4, dotted figures, and the roll progressions that close the book

106 lessons
318 exercises
5 sections
≈15 weeks at a lesson a day

How the course is built

Three parts, drawn where Stone draws them: He closes two of his own units with a printed review — p.13 and pp.28–29. Those are the boundaries, so each part ends on a page the author wrote to consolidate it.
Three exercises a day: A lesson is three consecutive exercises, never straddling two sections — 20–30 minutes at both stages. The whole book runs about 41 weeks at a lesson a day.
Twenty repetitions, counted for you: Stone's one repeated instruction. The app counts, so the attention goes into the hands instead.
Two stages per exercise: Learn it with a click on every note, prove it with a click on the pulse only. Done means both.
Nothing is locked: The parts are a map, not a gate: inside an open part every lesson and exercise is available from the start, in any order you like.
Tempo is yours: Stone prints no metronome marks. Each section carries a suggested start as a convention, and the optional ladder only moves up after a run you rate clean.

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