I thought it might be fun to start a user-contributed exercise thread to supplement the fine lessons and articles that Bart so graciously provides. Maybe if it gets rolling we can get a nice resource built up for the community. Just add a favorite warm-up, exercise or practice tip - even if it is a "standard" that you learned years ago.

I'll start with one of my favorite hand exercises that is fairly common but may get overlooked due to its simplicity:

Measure of singles, measure of doubles, measure of paradiddles. Start at a slow tempo and focus on making your singles, doubles and 'diddles sound exactly the same. Continue by substituting inversions of the paradiddle in the last measure. The point of the exercise is creating the even sound so that a listener would not be able to discern between the different sticking.

I have a warm-up/chop-building routine I sometimes use for all four limbs. Set your metronome to a comfortable tempo and play 16th-notes with your right foot for 5 minutes. Then do 5 min with your left. Then all 4 limbs together for 2 minutes (NO FLAMMING) then just RH and RF for 2, LH and LF for 2, RH and LF for 2 and finally LH and RF for 2. It's great for building endurance in the feet and helps to train weaker limbs by getting them moving in time along with stronger ones. I can also help with coordination, particularly the combinations of hands and feet. If you do this at the beginning of your practice it will get everything limbered up and ready to go for whatever you want to work on.