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Category: Straight 8th Grooves
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All Content, BASIC GROOVES, FREE, One Handed 16th HiHat Grooves, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Straight 8th Grooves, Stylistic GroovesCoconut Dance Groove
A key feature of many dance grooves is the group of three with an open hihat on the off beat.
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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 Tick Tock Groove Idea
Some snare drum and cross stick ideas to enhance your grooves.
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All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, Coordination, Core Foot Technique, FREE, Straight 8th GroovesA groove that will help develop Foot Speed
One Groove with a collection of opportunities to work on your foot technique!
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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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Basic Drum Lesson on Groove Recycling
Taking the grooves you know, and multiplying them through the power of Orchestration.
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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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Some Ideas To Use In Your Grooves
A little half paraddidle open HiHat thing to try!
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Try This Hand Pattern!
A HiHat Variation with a kick placement which can enhance your grooves.
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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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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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Ghost Note Placements
Try a Ghost note phrase in two different places, and feel the difference between them.
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Advanced Ghost Note Control
An ‘Automatic’ Ghost Note Groove with a Focus on a tough left hand dynamic control exercise.
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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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The ‘Random Stuff’ Groove
Learn a bunch of groove components within one exercise in this drum groove lesson!
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Left Hand Choke Double Kick Groove
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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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Super Car Breakdown
I love pulling this lick out during gigs. It sounds very fancy, but with a mix of a fast two on the kick, and then playing with some triplets, you get this!
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Single Bass METAL Groove
Usually heavy metal grooves have some kind of double kick type rhythm in there, but you can create some very convincing metal grooves with one bass drum pedal!
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1 Note Butt Kicker
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Double Kick Stack Attack
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Rock To Samba
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A Cool Groove
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Cymbal Switching Multi-Tasker
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RLK Linear Groove
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Back Beat BOOM
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3 Lines = Awesome!
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Layered Ostinato
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Syncopated Metal Groove
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Funky 16th Triplet Groove
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Double Bass Groove
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The Slide Kick Back Crasher
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Off Kick Groove
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Right Hand Movement
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Kick and Open HiHat Groove
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An Introduction to Syncopated Bass Drums
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Four On The Floor Snare Displacement
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Easy Crash Groove
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Grooves, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Straight 8th GroovesPartial Inverted Paradiddle Groove
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