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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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Cool 332 Rock Fill
Flams around the kit, this fill sounds BIG!
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One of the Easier Fast Linear Fills
RLRLKK played and resolved in 16th notes.
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A Simple and Complex Displacement Lesson
How to use the simple concept of moving the Backbeat around in both basic and advanced applications.
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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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Unison Kicked Paradiddle-diddle
A very dense and fast groove and fill variation where the right foot follows the right hand in a paradiddle-diddle.
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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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These Three Notes Can Sound Killer!
Just a simple movement of RLL can work really well!
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Snare Stick Flick Trick
A great illusion where you click your fingers and a stick comes flying up from the drums!
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Five Note Linear Groove
Super Simple but super effective!
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Tips for Quiet Drumming
Some quick tips for playing quiet at home and in a band, but still expressing yourself creatively.
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Some Ideas To Use In Your Grooves
A little half paraddidle open HiHat thing to try!
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Sweeping Double or Single Kick Linear Fill
A RLRLRLKK Fill, but with an explanation on how to apply it with both a Single Kick and Double Kick.
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The Advantage Of Slow Songs
If a song is fast, there is not much room for expression, so take advantage of slow songs where there is more space to fill with fancy stuff!
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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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All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, FREE, Ghost Note Grooves, Straight 8th Grooves, Stylistic Grooves, Syncopated GroovesChopped Up Groove
Take this Drum ‘n’ Bass inspired groove and try and apply it with some variations.
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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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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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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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Focus Audience Attention with 6-Stroke Hi-Hats
Drop everything away leaving only a lightning fast 6-stroke Hi-Hat pattern, with a link that focuses your audience onto whatever you do next.
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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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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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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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