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Category: GROOVE FOCUS
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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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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Crash Cymbal Groove Placements, Crash Fills, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLSLock and Load Crash Attack
Build up tension with some fast kicks, and then let loose the crashes!
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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Crash Cymbal Groove Placements, Crash Fills, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLSIntermediate Crash Fill
Add in some fancy inverted-paradiddle crash stabs without interrupting the groove!
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All Content, BASIC GROOVES, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, FREE, One Handed 16th HiHat Grooves, Stylistic GroovesOne Handed 16th Kick Variations
There are two main three Note Kick Variations in this groove environment, this groove helps you develop both!
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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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ADVANCED GROOVES, All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, FREE, Quarter-Hat Grooves, Stylistic GroovesAdvanced Quarter-Hat Groove
Playing with less Hi-Hats can help you play faster, but it can be tricky to add interesting kick patterns.
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Paradiddle-diddle Groove
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Off Beat Double Kick Method
A look into a method for developing Left Foot Heavy Double Kick Grooves.
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Advanced Kick Groove Positions
I find drummers simplify their kick patterns when they move two hands to the HiHat…
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Punk Rock Groove
Double Time Groove with Classic Kick Placements
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Pretend Off Time Groove
When you want to sound different… without being different.
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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 Grooves, FREE, Ghost Note Grooves, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Straight 8th GroovesRLL Grooving
Work on RLL… Awesome Ghost Notes for life!
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Double Kick Tips on How I Warm Up My Limbs
Here is me a bit rusty from the holidays and how I get back into it.
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So many people give up working on this
The Left Foot can add so much to your drumming both visually and audibly, yet so many drummers don’t quite push over the coordination issue.
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I made this drum lesson instead of playing video games
Normally RLLK sounds great in a Fill, but the ghost note applications it creates should not be overlooked!
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Trying again to make ‘Frooves’ or ‘Grills’ a thing…
The name will never catch on… but this cross between a Groove and a Fill sounds great!
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How to play this Intricate Floor Tom Groove
With no straight Right Hand pattern, this groove sounds great but requires you to internalise your timing.
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How manipulating your kick placement enhances a Groove
Going beyond what is written, and applying a little swing to a single note to transform 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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The exercise that fixed my students feet
I have taught this exercise to many drummers and seen great results
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Prolonged Ghost Note Application
Deceptively simple, yet effective when used in context!
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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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A Nifty Little Left Handed Ghost Note Focus
Sometimes it’s nice to put a focus on something you feel proud of
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Try This In Your 6/8 Grooves
A little rhythmic variation which works nicely in 6/8.
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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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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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How to FAKE being a Samba Drummer
How to turn your regular grooves into something that sounds latin.
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Off Beat Syncopation Groove
A Standard Off Beat HiHat Groove with some syncopated kicks to work in.
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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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Ghosted Shuffle Grooves 2
Add a busy triplet texture to your shuffles by adding ghost notes in between your hi-hat notes. Plus working three consecutive snare notes into shuffles.
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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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This may mess up your hands!
Can you rub your belly and pat your head? What about this Left Hand transition whilst playing a Two Handed Hi-Hat Groove?
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Crash Snapped Tom Groove
Take an already familiar groove, and apply it to the Toms with a linear kick and a crashed backbeat for some real impact.
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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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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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Syncopated Double Kick Groove
Work some complex double kick rhythms in under a simple backbeat hand pattern.
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