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The course / Part 1

Part 1 · Foundation

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

pp.5–13 · 63 lessons · 189 exercises · ≈9 weeks at a lesson a day

Every exercise here is a single bar of 2/2 you can read at sight, so none of the difficulty is in the reading — it is all in the hands. Page 5 alone is the most-quoted page in drumming: twenty-four stickings that contain the single-stroke roll, the double-stroke roll and the whole paradiddle family.

What this part builds

  • An even single stroke at any tempo, and doubles whose second stroke does not rush
  • The paradiddle family as reflexes rather than as reading
  • Triplets against a duple pulse, where the hand that starts the figure keeps changing
  • The three short rolls — single-beat, double-beat and closed (buzz)

How to work it

Play these as full strokes, sticks starting and finishing high: this is the part that builds wrist and rebound. Tempo matters less than evenness — Stone's own view is that a beginner who spends two or three months on page 5 alone still comes out ahead.

Where it ends

It ends on p.13, Stone's own Review of Short Roll Combinations, which recombines everything from pp.10–12.

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