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Author: Dex Star
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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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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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Beginner Disco Fill
Flam Kick Flam… Simple, but it makes you want to DANCE!
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Punk Rock Groove
Double Time Groove with Classic Kick Placements
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Pretend Off Time Groove
When you want to sound different… without being different.
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Broken Stickings
Take your Normal RLRL sticking, and poke holes in 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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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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The exercise that fixed my students feet
I have taught this exercise to many drummers and seen great results
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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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Cool 332 Rock Fill
Flams around the kit, this fill sounds BIG!
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Rhythmic Flam Kick Lick
Simple notes to play, but takes nailing the rhythm to make this sing!
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Broken Shuffle Fill
Moving from ‘Bouncy’ Shuffle Fills to dissecting triplets and breaking them up. Know your theory, master your fills.
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HiHat Pedal Technique
Exploring and highlighting an often overlooked area of technique, due to many underestimating the potential of what you can do with a hi-hat pedal.
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Some Beginner Drum Fill Tips
Beginner Ideas on where to take your drum fills if they are starting to sound boring.
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Flip-Flop Accents
A Simple exercise in theory, but physically pulling it off will make your head spin and your groove sound killer!
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Big Fat 332 Flam
Here’s a classic Rock Fill and a track to practice it with.
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Ghost Note Placements
Try a Ghost note phrase in two different places, and feel the difference between them.
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Basic Single Stroke Tom Application
Work on a simple single stroke fill, with a focus on getting the left hand out of its comfort zone.
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Basic Snare Comping Jazz Groove
Coordinating a Simple Snare Rhythm against the Jazz Ride Pattern. Plus a couple of tips on swing and working the left foot in.
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Basic Backbeat Crash Placement
Basic Level lesson, introducing using the Crash on a back-beat at the same time as the snare.
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Basic Foot Technique
Explore the basis of speed and control on the bass drum, with tips on efficiency, dynamics, heel-up/down, avoiding dead-strokes, playing in and out of the bass drum, spring tension and more.
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Classic Flam Kick Fill
Flams and Kicks both provide power, and this is a great 332 grouping to give your fills a boost!
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Ghost Break Variation
Some thoughts on the ‘Amen Break’ Groove and a little displaced snare and open hi-hat variation.
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How To Drum Along To Music
Play along with me as I guide you through playing grooves and fills to a track!
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Crash and Flam Sandwich
Adding Multiple Crashes and Kicks into your Fills, with some density that you can only get by using Flams!
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Three Note Mechanics
Talking through the mechanics of getting from one side of the kit to the other, and a great fill exercise that will help you develop those mechanics.
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Pushing Into An Open HiHat
Here is a groove that focuses on a great kick into an open hihat phrase which sounds great in many places!
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Two Handed Open HiHat Placements 1
With two hands on the HiHat it can be tricky to make decent sounding Open HiHats in a groove. Let me show you how I time them so you can work them into this environment.
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ADVANCED SKILLS, All Content, BASIC SKILLS, INTERMEDIATE SKILLS, PREMIUM, Rhythm and Theory, Speed and ControlThe Note Rate Pyramid
A course built around mastering ALL the possible note rates up to 32nd Notes, with basic, intermediate and advanced note rate pyramids covering all the issues you may face in pulling them off.
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Basic Flam Fills
Flams make things sound BIG, but as they take two hands to pull off they can also sound slow, unless you work your kick in there…
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Two Handed HH Crash Placements 1
The hands are busy enough during two handed HiHat grooves, so drummers often just don’t play crashes as it is ‘too hard’. Let’s sort that out.
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Finger Control Exercise
A control exercises for switching from one hand to the other with finger technique. This lesson then leads onto the single stroke turnarounds 1+2 courses.
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332 Dynamic Groupings
332 is a very common rhythm in all music. Here is a sticking which incorporates this in dynamic ways.
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Alternating Flams
Alternating from a right hand flam to a left can really mess with your coordination, as one hand is playing low whilst the other is high. It is really worth your time overcoming this.
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Alternative Paradiddle
This is like a paradiddle that avoids any Left Hand Doubles, and has a range of uses behind the kit.
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Switching In and Out of Two Handed HiHat Grooves
Moving between a one handed 8th and a two handed 16th environment, with some fancy accents to make it funky!
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Mixed Two Handed HiHat Grooves
It is not a choice between playing Straight 8th or Two Hands on the HiHat. Lets learn to switch between them in a bunch of musical ways.
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Basic Unison Fills
Playing Fills with both hands together over two drums gives more energy, but takes some mechanical preparation in order to pull it off at faster tempos.
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Basic Accents 2
Working Accents into hand-to-hand single strokes now. This is a core dynamic practice which I’ve had many advanced students still have issues with.
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