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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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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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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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Intermediate Half 6/8 Linear Fill
Try a Linear Fill idea in 6/8.
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RLRLL Grouping Fill
Three Fives and a Kick = 16th Note Fill
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLS, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Rhythmic FillsSubtle Herta HiHat Lick
When you just need a little bit of spice in your music.
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, Ghost Note Grooves, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Straight 8th GroovesRLL Grooving
Work on RLL… Awesome Ghost Notes for life!
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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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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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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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Fast HiHat Roll Lesson
32nd Note Double Stroke Rolls applied to the HiHat… AKA. FAST HIHAT STUFF!!!
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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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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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Try This In Your 6/8 Grooves
A little rhythmic variation which works nicely in 6/8.
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One of the Easier Fast Linear Fills
RLRLKK played and resolved in 16th notes.
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How to do an Open Handed Floor Kick thing I do
Here are some exercises on developing this kind of improvisation.
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Some Ideas To Use In Your Grooves
A little half paraddidle open HiHat thing to try!
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All Content, Crash Fills, FREE, Grouping Fills, Rhythm and Theory, Rhythmic Fills, Speed and ControlSextuplets Sound Amazing!
Working on the Mechanics of getting around the kit in a Sextuplet environment.
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Try This Hand Pattern!
A HiHat Variation with a kick placement which can enhance your grooves.
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Try This Flam Bucket Of Fish Drum Fill
A Travis Barker favourite, Mixing the Flam with this RLRK Roll down the drums can create some intense sounding fill combos!
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How to FAKE being a Samba Drummer
How to turn your regular grooves into something that sounds latin.
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Off Beat Syncopation Groove
A Standard Off Beat HiHat Groove with some syncopated kicks to work in.
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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, Crash Fills, FREE, Ghost Note GroovesSuper Crash Double Inverter
Four Notes which make an impact. Inverted Doubles between Kick and Snare, with the drive towards the crash. Very cool lick to add to your tool box.
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This may mess up your hands!
Can you rub your belly and pat your head? What about this Left Hand transition whilst playing a Two Handed Hi-Hat Groove?
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Crash Snapped Tom Groove
Take an already familiar groove, and apply it to the Toms with a linear kick and a crashed backbeat for some real impact.
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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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Try This With Your Ghost Notes
Try some of these ideas to spice up your ghost notes and move them around the drum kit.
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5551 Grouping Loop
Learn a cool Grouping Fill and apply it with some music.
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6/8 Fills, 6/8 Grooves, All Content, Crash Cymbal Groove Placements, Crash Fills, Creating Drum Parts, FREE6/8 3+ Stabs
Let’s talk Soloing and Improvising. Working on Grooves and Fills that centre around a ‘Stab’ in 6/8.
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Left Hand Stabs
Add some killer interest to your grooves with some Left Hand syncopated Crashes and Barks. this groove is a great place to start.
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Baby Tantrum Double Kick Fill
A fairly straight forward and aggressive double kick fill… that looks like a baby having a tantrum…
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