If you want to ultimately develop a vocabulary for polyrhythms, this is your book!
Rhythm Knowledge 3 introduces The Ultimate Stickings — A groundbreaking system designed to make stickings feel effortless, fluid, and second nature.
RK3 set out to answer one question… “How can I learn to feel large groupings of notes without the mental effort of breaking them up into hard-to manage, uneven chunks?"
Well… Practicing all the possibilities is enough to keep someone busy for a lifetime! But here’s what I discovered — It turns out that there’s just a handful of types of stickings and combinations you actually need to learn in order to cover any imaginable two limb sticking in a heartbeat.
Whether you’re playing blazing fast fills or exponentially increasing your phrasing vocabulary, this book removes the guesswork and gives you a proven method to master stickings once and for all.
Inside…
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Apply Stickings in Real Music – These aren’t just exercises… It’s a “fluid engine” that improves your groove, fills, and improvisation in any style.
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Master Odd & Even Stickings — Traditional stickings are taught BACKWARDS! Which is why a number of drum students arrived at Berklee not knowing them. The Ultimate Stickings will have you playing all the basic roll rudiments in a matter of MINUTES (not months).
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Train Stickings by Shape — Instead of memorizing endless patterns, RK3 teaches you to see and feel stickings as shapes, making recall instant and intuitive.
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Develop 6-Way Coordination — This book expands beyond traditional drumming, training your hands, feet, voice, and mind to work together seamlessly. Keep your place in songs better, don’t lose the “1” playing polyrhythms and use your mind’s voice for creativity.
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Ostinatos on Auto-pilot — Of all of the methods that I’ve tested on my students, the Ultimate Stickings system is THE most efficient path to developing limb interdependence.
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The KEY to Using Long Patterns Musically by learning to feel large patterns as one UNIT. This is what allows you to “play by feel” later on and stops you from splitting up long patterns into smaller chunks that cause more thinking, unsteady timing and less flow.
The Ultimate Stickings is THE fastest path to mastering drumming vocabulary with impeccable timing and mental room for creativity. Rewire your coordination, speed up your hands, and make complex patterns feel natural.
Train smarter. Play faster. Express freely.