Never Wonder What To Practice Again
Gridding is how drumlines turn a basic exercise into endless chops. This handbook hands you the whole system: take one exercise you already know and multiply it into hundreds of new ones. Open to any page and you will always have something harder to master.
You practice for hours and still hit the same wall
You run the exercises you always run. Your hands know them cold, so nothing gets harder and nothing gets cleaner. That is the plateau, and grinding the same reps will not get you off it.
Gridding does. It takes a rhythm you already own and bends it in ways that force your hands, your reading, and your brain to catch up. One exercise becomes hundreds, and every one of them is a rep you have never played before.
- The 6 grid types that turn any exercise into a system: Exercise, AB, 4-2-1, Pyramid, 7/8, and Shopping Sprees
- The 12 variations that reshape it: accents, fill-ins, independence, ornaments, rudiments, displacement, stickings, groupings, rhythms, off the left, backwards, and reverse
- Variation tables in every chapter, so you can keep building your own grids for years
- Combination grids that stack the variations into challenges that will humble anyone
Every exercise your line runs, turned into hundreds
Each chapter takes one core drumline exercise and pushes it through all twelve variations, written out in clean engraved notation with stickings so there is zero guesswork.
Dynamics, fill-ins, independence, ornaments, rudiments, displacement, stickings, groupings, rhythms, backwards, and reverse. If a drumline can throw it at you, it is in here.
Open any page. Always know exactly what to work on
This is a toolbox, not a book you read once. Flip to any page and you have a fresh grid to master. No more staring at your pad wondering what would actually make you better.
Who it is for:
- Marching snare drummers chasing a high school, college, WGI, or DCI line
- Rudimental players who want sharper hands, faster reading, and cleaner chops
- Instructors and arrangers who need a deep bank of exercises for their students
It is not a learn-to-drum book. If you already play basic rhythms and know your rudiments, the handbook takes it from there.
Written by a drummer who has made the lines you are chasing
Anthony Steller is a TMEA 6A All-State snare drummer and first chair in the state, a gold medalist at the Lone Star and Plano Drumline snare solo contests, and second place at PASIC 2022. He has written drumline books for competing marching bands and coached lines to Best Percussion and Best Snares captions. Every grid in this handbook is the exact system he used to get there, and the one he teaches his own students.
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