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Increase Coordination
Your about to learn a well kept secret that everybody has been keeping you from. I've been using this technique as a warm up for nearly 10 years now. Your probably thinking it involves rudiments or something, but even though that's a great exercise that all drummers should use that's not it. The act of spinning drum sticks improves your finger coordination dramatically. Its a wonder why every drummer out there isn't spinning sticks or putting on a good show in front of a crowd. There are so many types of spins that when used in combination looks amazing! I for one have gone through this book and DVD a few times practicing each spin. Now all my fellow drummer friends think I'm the best thing sense slice bread after teaching them and telling them about this book. Its the only book and DVD I know about that covers this topic. It was written by Steve Stockmal, who is a professional drummer and music instructor. He also is a honor graduate of Percussion Institute of Technology (PIT). What I've come to learn is that not only is my dexterity and finger coordination better but it also helps improve my drum stick speed. The older version is a single DVD and book that has been out a while. Spinology single DVD is the one that I personally have owned for years now. There is also a newer version of Spinology that is a double disk DVD
Read what the doctors had to say about this book: By: Dr. Kurt W. Kuhn It probably seems odd to see a section in a book on drum stick spinning written by a doctor, who spends his days chasing down lesions in the brain. Imagine then how it was for Steve Stockmal who got an e-mail from me telling him how his book Drumstick Spinology™ was the best thing since sliced bread for kids with ADD/ADHD and other learning disorders. For those of you who have an interest, I’ll cover the science in just a moment. No fuel and the brain dies, we call that a stroke. No activation and the same thing can happen much slower and we use less familiar terms like “transneural degeneration, retrograde chromatolysis or hypo metabolism.” These terms simply mean that when it comes to the nervous system, if you don’t use it you lose it. In many ways the nervous system is like a muscle. If you don’t use a muscle it becomes weaker and eventually will atrophy. Nerves fire all or nothing just like MIDI . They are either “note on” or “note off," There is a pathway, really more of a chain that runs from your fingers to the very top of your brain. These are the 12 longitudinal levels that we pass through along the way. When you spin a drum stick, your hands, or rather the muscles of the fingers themselves are the end organ in this chain of events (1). After your fingertips are receptors where the nervous system actually begins to recognize the spin (2). They bring input in from the muscles doing the drumstick spinning and pass them along to the nerves (3), which transfer the information into a nerve plexus (4). The information enters the posterior spinal root (5), then goes up the So back in our chain of 1 to 2 to 3…12, 1 fires only when it gets enough input from its environment. The input can be anything that you can feel through your five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell and taste), gravity or even chemical events (food, medication, drugs, and even thoughts). In this case it is what you feel as you spin a drumstick that is the source of activation, that input which comes from the joint mechano-receptors and the muscle spindles to cause the nerve to fire. Hang on; we are almost there! If there is a problem with any of these longitudinal levels then the probability is that the brain will not get the activation it needs to survive at a healthy level. In other words with less input coming in, that will reduce the frequency of firing to the brain and that can cause it to function at a less than optimal way. To you drummers that means you won’t be playing anywhere near your rhythmical potential, but to a child whose system is operating at a deficit, that lack of input may mean they can’t process information normally and will have a loss of executive function. By that I mean the ability to think and process normally. The type of specialist who handles learning disorders and/or can evaluate your nervous system best for a drummer trying to optimize his playing is a chiropractic neurologist. A chiropractic neurologist is a specialist within the chiropractic profession who is especially skilled at observing for soft signs that are often the only way to diagnose these learning and behavioral conditions. They are also eminently qualified to help you drummers to achieve at your optimum neurological capability. “It is amazing and totally unexpected that my spinning would help children and adults with learning disabilities. Kurt W. Kuhn , D.C. , M.S.M., D.A.C.N.B.
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packed with more information. Don't fool yourself into thinking its hard, it really isn't. He teaches you step by step and makes it so simple even a little kid could do it.