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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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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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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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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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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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Simple Herta Fill
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Tom-Tom Groove
A great Tom groove for newer drummers or those looking for something new. It has both hands moving to the toms and getting you out of the same old Hi-Hat/ Snare hand position.
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Two Handed Tom Groove
Taking our Two Handed HiHat Grooves concept and applying it to the toms!
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6/8 Ghost Notes
The whole RLRL Ghost note thing get’s picked up by most drummers… but what about playing it songs based in 6?
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Resolving Paradiddle-diddles
Try out some new stickings with this Paradiddle-diddle combination exercise.
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6/8 HiHat Twist
Rhythmically this is quite strange, but just a little jump into the world of shuffles in 6/8 creates a nice flavour!
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3 Reasons My Fills Dont Suck
A collection of tips to make your Fills sound better!
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Working In Crashes
Here is a Crash fill which slot’s right into the middle of a groove! A great look into fill placement!
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Off Beat HiHat Tester Groove
A test to see whether Off Beat HiHat Grooves are something you need to work on.
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HiHat Off Beat
Here is a Tom Groove with a main focus of getting your left foot playing the HiHat on the off beats. This can feel strange at first but it gives your grooves a great feel, even when you move your hand from the floor Tom.
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