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Resolved Groupings 1
Break out of those Vanilla Drum Licks and explore some simple alternating and non-alternating 3, 5 and 7 phrases. Learn How to resolve them into 4/4 so that they fit smoothly into your playing.
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4D-332 Coordination
Working on a Simple Foot pattern with a 332 Single Stroke Grouping on top. On their own they’re not too bad, played together it can cause some conflicting rhythms worth overcoming.
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4D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Coordination, FREE, Off Beat HiHat Grooves, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Tom GroovesOff Independence Groove
A 4D Coordination Groove/ Fill, all about getting your left foot into one of my favourite placements, and playing a floor tom rhythm against it.
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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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Subtle and Aggressive Linear Phrase
Two variations of a linear phrase I often use in my solos, which sounds very fancy and can be used for both delicate and aggressive Groove and Fill applications.
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5551 Stacker
Using Groups of Five for an aggressive accented Stack or HiHat based Fill
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One Handed 16th Delicate Ghost Lick
Here’s a diddled ghost note placement which works great before the bass drum in a 16th note hihat environment.
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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, FREE, Grouping Fills, Odd Time Fills, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused GroovesOdd Time Single Stroke Bark Fill
A challenging mix here, of a 772 Grouping within a 7/8 Bar! Plus some footwork and hihat barks! Good Luck!
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Crash De Crash Placement
Rhythmically this Crash Placement looks tough, but it’s not overly difficult to do and sounds great when played with a groove!
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Odd Time 7/8 Syncopation Groove
Odd Time isn’t as bad as you think, it’s just applying what you know with a different number of notes in the bar!
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Accented Non-Linear Double Kick Fill
Work on some Single Stroke Accents whilst keeping constant double kick 16ths underneath for a pretty aggressive sounding fill!
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Linear Shuffle Fill
Rather than ‘Fudge’ through some shuffle fills, try some stuff you already know but in a shuffle setting.
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Ghosted Quick Kick Shuffle
A full collection here, with tricky ghost note placements as well as skippy kicks, all contained in a half bar of shuffle.
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All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, FREE, Quarter-Hat Grooves, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused GroovesQuarter-Hat Groove
Playing controlled fast kick patterns against a busy Hi-Hat pattern is fine, but what if the hand pattern is quite sparse?
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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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How To Drum Along To Music
Play along with me as I guide you through playing grooves and fills to a track!
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Reverse Half Throw
A variation on the Half Throw, but this time with the top of the stick travelling away from you, useful for quick drum strikes after the rotation.
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Stick Trick Practice Game
A little game I used to play with my students to help apply stick tricks in your playing. Don’t be so distracted by the tricks that you forget to apply them!
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Traditional Grip Throw
A full rotation throw for Traditional Grip Players. Great for pulling off in-between the back beats of a groove.
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My Thoughts On Stick Tricks
There are mixed feelings about stick tricks, should we do them? Does it add to the performance? Is there value in practicing and applying them? Here are my thoughts.
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The Half and Full Throw
Here’s a simple trick, although simple doesn’t mean easy. Throwing the stick and catching it after it rotates. Here are some tips to help you pull it off well.
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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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Linear Sextuplet Paradiddle Combo
A high efficiency combo exercise to practice, with the inclusion of a RLK phrase which goes directly into a paradiddle to finish off this cool sounding groove.
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Resolved Fives over a Splash Hat
Using a HiHat foot technique which many drummers dont often use, at the same time as a Grouping exercise with the hands for a great independence workout!
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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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Creating Drum Solos
Here are some thoughts and tips on constructing all kinds of drum solos, from short solos to post on social media, to audition solos and soloing in a band.
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Heavy Half Time Break Down
For you arena rock drummers, explaining Half Time (Quarter Note) Breakdowns and how to pad them out with some kicks.
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RLLK Around The Kit
Take a simple linear RLLK pattern and learn a bunch of orchestrations and ways to work it smoothly into your drumming.
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The ‘Random Stuff’ Groove
Learn a bunch of groove components within one exercise in this drum groove lesson!
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Linear Manipulation Fill
Learn a drum fill that mixes a RLK Linear sticking with some note rate manipulation.
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4D Non-Linear Fill
3 Exercises to develop a multi-layered fill which incorporates all four limbs.
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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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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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6-Stroke Hi-Hat Bark
Playing an open hi-hat on the LAST note of a sextuplet 6-stroke roll. Tough, but it sounds spicy!
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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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