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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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Super Fast 664 Fill
Sometimes you just want to play as many notes as possible. You can play this single or double bass.
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5551 Grouping Loop
Learn a cool Grouping Fill and apply it with some music.
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Matching Stabs on the Double Kick
Learn a Syncopated Double Kick groove and learn how to match it into a track.
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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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Double Kick Stabs
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5551 Grouping Guitar Loop
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332 Stabs
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6/8 Guitar Loop (Stab on 3+)
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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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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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Marketing For Musicians
From finding a band and getting gigs, to promoting your music and building a career as a musician, telling the world what you do starts with making some noise.
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Some thoughts on creating a Groove around a Guitar loop
What goes through my head when confronted with a straight guitar loop, and how I construct a groove around it.
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Syncopated Double Kick Groove
Work some complex double kick rhythms in under a simple backbeat hand pattern.
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Triple Flam Paradiddle
Mixing three Flams and a Paradiddle, giving us a challenging 8 note consecutive run on each hand!
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Exploring 3D Rudiments – R L L KK
A very aggressive sticking that has two quick kicks, which when repeated sounds like three fast notes. Let’s explore speed and dynamics.
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Shuffle 3D Fill
Applying a Linear Fill into a Shuffle environment, with tips for various speeds. RLRLLK
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All Content, FREE, One Handed 16th HiHat Grooves, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Stylistic GroovesRnB Hand Rest Groove
A simple RnB groove with a tip on how to give your hand a break during those fast right hand hi-hat sections.
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Mathematical Kick Burner
Practice for longer by adding a simple mental challenge to the mix. Whilst focusing on your hands, your feet and coordination will receive the benefits.
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Fall Out Boy – Dance Dance – Groove 1
This groove kicked my butt when playing it as a young drummer. Here are some tips on why I struggled and how to overcome those issues.
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Sextuplet Double Kick Fill
One of my Go-To fast licks for when I run out of ideas during a drum solo. Possible to do with one foot, but faster and louder with two.
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Double Flam Paradiddle
Mixing Flams with a Double Paradiddle, causing a consecutive group of 6 on each hand. Let’s conquer this one and feel the benefits!
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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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Flam Paradiddle
I prefer to call it a Flamadiddle. Mixing a Flam and Paradiddle, and talking about the troublesome consecutive groups of Four that can be conquered with a look at your hand technique.
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Structuring Practice
Feeling aimless and unproductive? What do you actually do when you sit down behind your drum kit? How do you keep it fun, be productive, efficient, and want to come back to the kit time and time again?
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Overriding 7/8 Groove
Lets talk some of the basics of Odd Time, plus how to make it accessible for your audience with Overriding.
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Half 6/8 Linear Fill
Explore using and applying a Linear Fill in a 6/8 Environment.
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A First Look at RLLK
If you have never tried RLLK before, this lesson introduces the sticking, how to work it into your playing and overcoming some of the technical difficulties you may face.
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Basic Foot Technique
Explore the basis of speed and control on the bass drum, with tips on efficiency, dynamics, heel-up/down, avoiding dead-strokes, playing in and out of the bass drum, spring tension and more.
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Making Money As A Drummer
Some thoughts on a few of the ways that I make money as a Drummer and how you can too! Find a way to pay for your hobby, or make it your main source of income.
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All Content, Coordination, PREMIUM, Shuffle Grooves, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Stylistic GroovesBasic Jazz Grooves 1
Exploring the basics of Jazz, overcoming common challenges when coming from a pop/rock background, as well as exploring the Jazz Ride Pattern, Bass Drum Feathering and Comping.
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Mini Traditional Twirl
A traditional grip trick based on the real twirl, but this time doing a full rotation for a quick and effective twirl that you can use between backbeats.
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Mini Real Twirl
A subtle and flash real twirl variation, with a couple of applications which I use often in my own playing.
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Mini Fake Twirl
A quick spin based on the Fake Twirl, and an application on how to work it smoothly into your playing.
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The Real Twirl
A perpetual motion twirl which utilises three fingers and a wrist rotation. Tough to pull off, but I’ve broken it into multiple steps here to help you build up the technique.
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The Fake Twirl
The first twirl I recommend you learn. The stick does a full rotation, but only utilises two fingers to pull it off, rather than rolling the stick through multiple fingers.
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