Jost Nickel's Snare Book

Publisher: Alfred Music

Jost Nickel's book is exclusively about snare exercises that will improve your hand technique and your general understanding of rhythm at the same time. Additionally, using different subdivisions and time signatures will further strengthen your rhythmic understanding.
Chapter 1 offers many warm-up exercises that combine well-known stickings with accentuations, subdivisions, or time signatures that are unusual for these stickings. Additionally, you'll find ostinato exercises to strengthen your independence and interlocking exercises to improve your coordination.

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. Once you have understood the book's conceptual approach, you'll be able to create your own exercises. Simply keep the concepts but change the content, either on your snare drum or on your drum pad.
 A 12-page insert called "Reading Texts" is also included

• Jost Nickel's Groove Book
• Jost Nickel's Snare Book
• Jost Nickel's Beginner Book
• Jost Nickel's Fill Book