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It cppeared in Intemational Musician magazine many years ago. Here ate Mr, Stone's words: “The following Is an old-timer from my private collection of practice routines, this one designed to develop speed plus endurance of the left (or weaker) hand, (For the lefty, it should be prac- ficed with your weaker hand, which is the right.) This is dedicated fo Joe Morello, for it was one of his favorites when studying here at The Stone School. Slow practice isindicated at first, with wrist action alone, Finger action is added when faster speeds are reached. Endurance is developed by es > Going through the set of fen exercises many times each, and finally, on a non-stop basis—that is, by going in this way from one number to another without a pause for, say, thirly minutes.” The first ten exercises shown below appeared in Mr. Stone's article, The next ten are my variations on his idea. | am sure Mr. Stone would be very pleased. He was one of the great teachers, and was so honored to study with him. He really took me to another level of technical proficiency. The key to understanding these exercises is rec~ ognizing that the hand motion (or sticking pat- tern) on the accents remains the same when you play the fil-ins = [RS EaR RS ERS R, CaRet RBar [SRS LRetR_LeR Lf LR SAGER IRALeRS Eee Fa eRe Ree: ee > TS —_— —_ as ns = = = = = U R E R v R aos 3 im 3 3 3 3 e555... EYES=qc=3 LecR i PARSLABEE ERT OAR (kak (LRG EERGE PR CAREE ae LOREUCRGE OR IL (R RLR [SRRURERESREC IRE LRT REL ROOUREL oR Gass v RLR Renin elena Re nen ome ct v Peter tek Eek LR LOR LR LR UR R v mm RPean RERURUROR CRUROL R v R U Conese bayGia Car] £ GRY AR oR eee RR ALT Ge Re ROL 1 >. = > 5 ns — fe az = = — v R R t R R as, eee a tos Doh Eek ere cee ere kee eRGiP RED RTu Rac RTE Here are my variations on Mr, Stone’s exercises. 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