STICKNESS - Fitness for the Snare Drummer

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- Preface
  
  After 35 years of working with STICK CONTROL by George Lawrence Stone (that I still love and recommend to any snare drummer as study material), I would like to present a “work book”, that is my personal continuation of Stone´s STICK CONTROL, perhaps a “STICK CONTROL 2.0”.
  
  STICKNESS – FITNESS FOR THE SNARE DRUMMER is divided into four chapters. Each chapter starts with 100 exercises that can be altered or modified to meet your needs and ends with 4 short studies (each in an L- and R- Version). You will find space between the staffs and a few empty pages for your own sticking ideas and variations.
  
  Please consider that STICKNESS is a kind of “snare drum workout”, not in the sense of heavy-weight muscle training but rather like long-term exercising of flexibility and agility. Furthermore it is a book for the advanced snare drummer and I strongly recommend working with Stone´s STICK CONTROL extensively before starting this book.
  
  STICKNESS ends with the so-called MEPHISTO STUDY, that appears in two versions and is also quite challenge even for the advanced snare drummer. Version B (in L- and R- Version) is the “STICKNESS-Practice-Version”, but Version A is suitable for auditions, exams, etc.
  
  This book is both a manual and mental training for the snare drummer. The reason for every line of the exercises starting with “L” instead of “R” is for “emancipation” of the left hand, contrary to nearly all drum books of the past decades. Enjoy the different feeling while practicing and profit from the long-term effect.
  
  Take some time to read “How to practice STICKNESS” thoroughly, so that you will use this book in the most effective way. Finally, don't forget that this book is meant primarily to exercise your technique, so the stickings here are chosen particularly for this objective. Enjoy the feeling of technical agility when leaving this “fitness studio”, but in a musical situation you might want to choose your own individual stickings which should be sensible, sensitive and in good taste.
  
  I would like to express my thanks to EDITION SVITZER for their kind cooperation and for the wonderful layout. My appreciation also goes to Nick Bardach for the English translation and to Thorsten Blumberg for the cover photo.
  
  Wishing all drummers lots of fun and success with STICKNESS, regardless which musical styles they play!
  
  Johannes Steinbauer
  Bonn, June 2022
Instrumentation +
- Snare Drum Method Book
About the composer +
- Johannes Steinbauer was born in 1973 in Bavaria (Germany) and started drumming in a brass band at the age of 11. Later, he was taught by Christian Obermaier, who laid the groundwork for his professional training.
  
  In 1993, whilst studying with Prof. Arnold F. Riedhammer at the „Richard Strauss Konservatorium“ in Munich, Johannes Steinbauer won a position as percussionist in the „Beethoven Orchester Bonn“. In 2001 he was appointed Principal Percussionist of the „WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln“.
  
  Studies for snare drum and percussion were written in 2019, based on decades of orchestral experience. In 2020, Johannes Steinbauer composed his first solo pieces, including the 2020 Solo Trilogy for Vibraphone and Percussion, which was produced by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne in 2021.
  
  For more information, please visit www.charakter-etueden.de
Reviews +
- Percussion Notes, February 2023
  
  Stickness is an 87-page, spiral-bound publication that is designed to increase snare drum technique at various levels of abilities, from intermediate to advanced. There are four chapters of instruction: Chapter One – single, double, and multiple strokes; Chapter Two – grace notes; Chapter Three – one-handed buzz roll and closed roll; and Chapter Four – grace notes and rolls. A final section is titled “Mephisto Study” and is an advanced combination summary of the previous four chapters — intended to be quite challenging.
  
  This snare drum technique book is designed to be both a manual and a mental technique development tool for the snare drummer, taking the tradition of George L. Stone’s Stick Control to a whole new level.
  
  —Jim Lambert
Credits +
- Front Cover Artwork: Nicola Lee
  Photo: Thorsten Blumberg
  Translation: Nick Bardach
  Engraving: Johannes Steinbauer
  Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
  Copyright © Edition SVITZER
  www.editionsvitzer.com

STICKNESS - Fitness for the Snare Drummer

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