To keep your hands agile and dive deeper into�effective methods�that really improve your pad technique, Anika Nilles' Pad Book�is just the thing! Anika gives plenty of advice on�what and how�to practice on a pad. Her fundamental workouts deal with accents, phrasings, and stickings in regular and odd note values, mixed meters, hand independence, and polyrhythms. Anika also puts together a collection of�warm-ups�that suggest how to create your own rhythm patterns out of the technical features in this book. Anika's focus through it all---to show you how you can always be�creative when you play.