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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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Paradiddle-diddle Groove
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Stop just using Fours in your Fills
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Lotsa Lines = Lotsa Speed
Double Strokes in 32nd Notes… Basically it sounds fast!
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Intermediate Half 6/8 Linear Fill
Try a Linear Fill idea in 6/8.
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Off Beat Double Kick Method
A look into a method for developing Left Foot Heavy Double Kick Grooves.
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Advanced Kick Groove Positions
I find drummers simplify their kick patterns when they move two hands to the HiHat…
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Punk Rock Groove
Double Time Groove with Classic Kick Placements
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RLRLL Grouping Fill
Three Fives and a Kick = 16th Note Fill
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Pretend Off Time Groove
When you want to sound different… without being different.
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6/8 Grooves, ADVANCED GROOVES, All Content, Applied Rudiment Grooves, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, FREE, Linear Grooves6/8 Fake Double Kick Groove
Double Strokes between Hands and Feet in a 6/8 environment.
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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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Broken Stickings
Take your Normal RLRL sticking, and poke holes in it!
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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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