Jost Nickel’s Snare Book

The title SNARE BOOK tells its own tale: This book is exclusively about snare exercises that will improve your hand technique and your general understanding of rhythm at the same time. Additionally, playing these exercises using different subdivisions and time signatures will further strengthen your rhythmic overview and will make the exercises more interesting and less repetitive. <> says Jost. <> The first chapter of this book offers a wide range of great warm-up exercises that combine well-known stickings with accentuations, subdivisions, or time signatures that are unusual for these stickings. Additionally, youll find Ostinato exercises to strengthen your independence and Interlocking exercises to improve your coordination. <> adds Jost. <> The other chapters take a very systematic approach where Jost takes you step-by-step through different exercises on Double-Stroke Rolls, Flams, Multiple Strokes, Ruffs, Inverted Double-Stroke Rolls, Paradiddles, and more. One of the benefits of the book is that once you have understood the conceptual approach youll be able to create your own exercises. You simply keep the concepts but change the content, either on your snare drum or on your drum pad. A 12-page insert containing Reading Texts completes the concept of this book.