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Category: PREMIUM
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Foot Technique
On the drums we can do pretty much anything our hands can do with the feet, it just takes the know how and a bit of time.
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Quarter HH 16th Double Kick Grooves
Taking our Double Kick grooves into new territory now by applying them in a Quarter Note Environment
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Left Hand Choke Double Kick Groove
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Ghosted Shuffle Grooves 1
Applying Ghost Notes in unison with the hihat during shuffles.
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RKRLKL Sextuplet Linear Fills
This is a great lick which avoids doubles on the kick, but has the potential for some serious speed!
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RKRLKL 16th Linear Fills
A great 6 note phrase with resolutions to fit it into 16th Notes.
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Polyrhythmic Linear Overlap
Simpler than it sounds, playing groups of three in a way that overlaps how you normally perceive 4/4. It’s just three notes, it’s knowing your note rate that causes the issue.
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Grooves, Coordination, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Straight 8th Grooves9-Stroke Displacement Groove
Two things here, working on some snare displacement, with the backbeat pushed back to make space for a nice 9-stroke roll Ride/Ghost pattern.
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Linear Left Hand Double Fill
The Sticking RLLK creates some nice linear variations, first you naturally play two ghost notes with the left hand, and second it puts the kick in a very energetic sounding position.
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Tricky Component Groove
A few things here, the main one being a long string of 4 ghost notes, plus some open hats, right hand variations and nasty kicks.
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Studio Tour – January 2023
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Foot Ostinatos 1
Simple Hand Pattern, Simple Foot Patterns. Some Incredibly difficult patterns to master at speed!
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Paradiddle Speed Builders
Take the Paradiddle Engine apart, clean it out, put it back together, take it for a spin at some killer new speeds!
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Double Stroke Speed Builders
Let’s dig into the smaller components of our double stroke rolls, and isolate each area. Once we develop that, put it back together for an upgraded double stroke roll!
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Single Stroke Speed Builders
Singles are easy right? Well yes… until you try and play them at 200bpm. Lets really get into our hand technique and some exercises to reach those killer tempos!
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Two Handed HiHat Ghost Note Grooves
So you have some ghost note grooves, but when you put two hands on the hihat, all that fancy stuff dies away… unless you learn to apply them, with both Rights and Lefts moving between HiHat and Snare.
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6/8 Two Handed HiHat Grooves
Applying some of the principles from other two handed hihat courses, and translating them into six useful 6/8 grooves you can apply right away.
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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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Mixed Two Handed HiHat Grooves 3
Working in some pretty heavy syncopation on the hihat with two hands whilst keeping a solid kick and snare pattern.
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Mixed Two Handed HiHat Grooves 2
Working on short partial layers of two handed hihat grooves in a straight 8th 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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Single Stroke Turn-Arounds 2
Building our speed and control further with much longer phrases now, going from 9 to 13 note ‘U-Turns’.
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Single Stroke Turn-Arounds 1
Building control starting a single stroke roll with both the right and left hands, with 3 to 7 note ‘U-Turns’. Crank up the speed and find your limit!
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Two Handed HiHat Killer Kicks 3
We’ve got the coordination down, next lets push what we can do with the kick in this environment.
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Two Handed HiHat Killer Kicks 2
In Course 1 we looked at playing Kicks in time with the Left Hand, in this course we develop that into playing double strokes on the kick in time with the RL or LR hand pattern.
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Two Handed HiHat Killer Kicks 1
Playing the Bass Drum in time with the right hand on the hihat feels okay, but when you play a right foot with a left hand, things get tricky… but this is where the Funk really sets in with these grooves.
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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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Off Beat HiHat Syncopation Grooves 2
Developing all the components to become completely free in an off beat hihat environment.
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Fast Moving Threes
One of the first fast drum licks I ever learned. Forces you to focus on efficiency and hand technique to get it fast. Keep those sticks low!
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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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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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Syncopated 16th Double Kick Grooves 2
Things are getting musical with these partial syncopated double kick patterns under a solid backbeat.
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Syncopated 16th Double Kick Grooves 1
Exploring a great syncopation concept, which looks at playing simple grooves which get enhanced to become complex double kick patterns by simply playing left foot off beats.
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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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Basic Accents 1
Playing Loud and Soft notes sounds simple, but the mechanics stop many people from being able to do them fast. This course on working both hands in Unison will help.
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Off Beat HiHat Syncopation Grooves 1
Bringing it all together, Off Beat HiHat Doubling, Ghost Notes and Advanced Kick Patterns. Remember why you are practicing, and push on!
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Paradiddle-Diddle Fills
I love the speed that is possible with Paradiddle-diddles, and the rhythmic character of it just sounds great!
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Off Beat Open HiHat Placements
As off beat patterns can feel a little unstable at first, adding a fourth limb into the mix can cause coordination issues. It is worth building that skill though!
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Off Beat HiHat Doubling 2
There are two main variations of the doubles you can use in off beat hihat grooves, this course explains the difference between them and how to not mix them up!
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