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Category: Applied Rudiment Grooves
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Two Handed HiHat Grooves6-Stroke HiHat Bark
I used to love trying to add fancy licks and phrases in subtle ways to my drumming. This is one of those phrases!
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Paradiddle-diddle Groove
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6/8 Grooves, ADVANCED GROOVES, All Content, Applied Rudiment Grooves, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, FREE, Linear Grooves6/8 Fake Double Kick Groove
Double Strokes between Hands and Feet in a 6/8 environment.
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLS, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Rhythmic FillsSubtle Herta HiHat Lick
When you just need a little bit of spice in your music.
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, Ghost Note Grooves, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Straight 8th GroovesRLL Grooving
Work on RLL… Awesome Ghost Notes for life!
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Here is a Bell Ride pattern to try out
Try this RRL phrase which uses the bell to pick up the back beat.
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Complex Stuff is often just Fast Simple Stuff
Showing you how a complex sounding groove is just a Double Paradiddle applied as a groove… simpler than it sounds.
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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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How to Groove with the Snare Drum
Some tips on creating single stroke accent grooves
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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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These Three Notes Can Sound Killer!
Just a simple movement of RLL can work really well!
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Some Ideas To Use In Your Grooves
A little half paraddidle open HiHat thing to try!
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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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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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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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Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, Ghost Note Grooves, Shuffle Fills, Shuffle GroovesHalf Time Shuffle Paradiddle-diddle
Here’s a Jeff Porcaro (Toto) style groove, with a paradiddlediddle variation added to challenge you to transition between these two phrases.
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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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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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7-Stroke Roll Cymbal Lick
A Double Stroke Roll (up to 7 notes) gives you a 7 stroke roll, this is the left handed variation which can be used between a crash cymbal and hihat to create some nice textures within your drum grooves!
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Double Paradiddle Drum Groove
If you have not tried a Double Paradiddle, let me give you one massively groovy reason to try it!
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Grooving With Paradiddles
Here is a straight Paradiddle groove application, and then a tougher kick variation which sounds amazing!
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Paradiddle-diddle Fancy
Practice your Paradiddle drum kit applications with this Paradiddle-diddle variation. A Paradiddle-diddle is RLRRLL and this video will show you how to work it into your playing. A tricky addition is the bass drum placement which gives this groove a rocky edge to help you create some really dense sounding drum parts. Watch your hand…
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6/8 Groove Lick
Work on your 6/8 groove ideas with some of the cool applications in this lesson. Working on Double Stroke Rolls (5-stroke roll), a ghost note placement and some right hand variations.
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RKRK Single Stroke Floor Tom Application
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Linear Single Walk Down
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6/8 Grooves, All Content, Applied Rudiment Grooves, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, Dynamics, FREE, Ghost Note Grooves6/8 Snare Groove
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RLL Weak Hand Builder
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Alternative Paradiddle Groove
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Using A Buzz In A Groove
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Inverted Double Stroke Chop
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The Glam-Flam Tom Groove
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RLL,RLL,RLL POW!
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Double Stroke 6/8 Chop Groove
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Double Funk
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Sextuplet Groove Thing
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RLRL Hand Swap Groove
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Double Paradiddle Groove
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How I do That Sizzle Thing
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Want Your Groove To Sound More Complicated
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5-Stroke Roll Grooves
RRLLR, a quick little phrase which can be applied in a multitude of fancy ways within grooves! Be that on the HiHat or with Ghost Notes.

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