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Author: Dex Star
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Two Handed HiHat Grooves6-Stroke HiHat Bark
I used to love trying to add fancy licks and phrases in subtle ways to my drumming. This is one of those phrases!
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ADVANCED GROOVES, All Content, FREE, Linear Grooves, Off Beat HiHat Grooves, Two Handed HiHat GroovesUp-Beat Linear Groove
KLRKRLRL phrased as a groove, it’s pretty tasty!
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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Crash Cymbal Groove Placements, Crash Fills, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLSLock and Load Crash Attack
Build up tension with some fast kicks, and then let loose the crashes!
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Bucket of Fish Backbeat
Ending a fill on the backbeat sounds great, and linear phrases like RLRK make it easier to do!
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Off Beat Variation
A neat little linear variation to spice up your off beat grooves.
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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Crash Cymbal Groove Placements, Crash Fills, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLSIntermediate Crash Fill
Add in some fancy inverted-paradiddle crash stabs without interrupting the groove!
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Swinging 6/8 Groove
A subtle change to your 6/8 grooves to make it bounce!
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Sweeping Metal Fill
Fitting 8 Notes into a single beat… It’s like a stealthy metal ninja.
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All Content, BASIC GROOVES, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, FREE, One Handed 16th HiHat Grooves, Stylistic GroovesOne Handed 16th Kick Variations
There are two main three Note Kick Variations in this groove environment, this groove helps you develop both!
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3D Non-Linear Fills, ADVANCED FILLS, All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Crash Fills, FREE, Shuffle Fills, Stylistic FillsAngry Jazz Combo Fill
Six Strokes and RLL in an aggressive sextuplet fill.
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All Content, BASIC GROOVES, FREE, One Handed 16th HiHat Grooves, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Straight 8th Grooves, Stylistic GroovesCoconut Dance Groove
A key feature of many dance grooves is the group of three with an open hihat on the off beat.
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RLRLLK Combo Fill
I’ve been using this Sticking more and more lately, that last kick sounds great!
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Beginner Disco Fill
Flam Kick Flam… Simple, but it makes you want to DANCE!
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3D Linear Fills, All Content, FREE, Grouping Fills, INTERMEDIATE FILLS, Shuffle Fills, Stylistic FillsLanding Bonham Triplets
A Classic Linear Fill, but how to finish it?
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ADVANCED GROOVES, All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, FREE, Quarter-Hat Grooves, Stylistic GroovesAdvanced Quarter-Hat Groove
Playing with less Hi-Hats can help you play faster, but it can be tricky to add interesting kick patterns.
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Pretend Off Time Groove
When you want to sound different… without being different.
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Double Kick Tips on How I Warm Up My Limbs
Here is me a bit rusty from the holidays and how I get back into it.
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So many people give up working on this
The Left Foot can add so much to your drumming both visually and audibly, yet so many drummers don’t quite push over the coordination issue.
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Something Fast, Drum Related and Sexy
Sometimes you are just looking for a crazy Fill lesson… so here it is!
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Here is a Bell Ride pattern to try out
Try this RRL phrase which uses the bell to pick up the back beat.
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Complex Stuff is often just Fast Simple Stuff
Showing you how a complex sounding groove is just a Double Paradiddle applied as a groove… simpler than it sounds.
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I made this drum lesson instead of playing video games
Normally RLLK sounds great in a Fill, but the ghost note applications it creates should not be overlooked!
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Trying again to make ‘Frooves’ or ‘Grills’ a thing…
The name will never catch on… but this cross between a Groove and a Fill sounds great!
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Here is a Tick Tock Groove Idea
Some snare drum and cross stick ideas to enhance your grooves.
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How to play this Intricate Floor Tom Groove
With no straight Right Hand pattern, this groove sounds great but requires you to internalise your timing.
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How manipulating your kick placement enhances a Groove
Going beyond what is written, and applying a little swing to a single note to transform your grooves.
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How To Play a Fast Sweeping Linear Fill
Walking down the drums and landing with a Flam.
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All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, Coordination, Core Foot Technique, FREE, Straight 8th GroovesA groove that will help develop Foot Speed
One Groove with a collection of opportunities to work on your foot technique!
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A Great Fill for Learning 6-Stroke Rolls
A simple orchestration to help you see the benefits of 6-stroke rolls.
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Fast HiHat Roll Lesson
32nd Note Double Stroke Rolls applied to the HiHat… AKA. FAST HIHAT STUFF!!!
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The exercise that fixed my students feet
I have taught this exercise to many drummers and seen great results
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Prolonged Ghost Note Application
Deceptively simple, yet effective when used in context!
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How to Groove with the Snare Drum
Some tips on creating single stroke accent grooves
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Getting Away from Boring Numbers
It’s a world full of Fours… but a little knowledge of resolving 3’s will open up a world of groupings!
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Try these Left Hand Rhythms to improve your grooves
Demonstrated on the cowbell, but great for developing your Ghost Notes too!
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Recycling By Moving Your Right Hand
Take your normal grooves and try this out to create new grooves!
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A Nifty Little Left Handed Ghost Note Focus
Sometimes it’s nice to put a focus on something you feel proud of
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Single Kick Linear Fill with a Flam
One big problem with these fast linear fills, is how to end them. The Flam often comes to the rescue!
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Try This In Your 6/8 Grooves
A little rhythmic variation which works nicely in 6/8.
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Basic Drum Lesson on Groove Recycling
Taking the grooves you know, and multiplying them through the power of Orchestration.
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