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Category: Bass Drum Focused Grooves
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Advanced Ghost Note Control
An ‘Automatic’ Ghost Note Groove with a Focus on a tough left hand dynamic control exercise.
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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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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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The ‘Random Stuff’ Groove
Learn a bunch of groove components within one exercise in this drum groove lesson!
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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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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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Two Handed HiHat Killer Kicks 3
We’ve got the coordination down, next lets push what we can do with the kick in this environment.
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Two Handed HiHat Killer Kicks 2
In Course 1 we looked at playing Kicks in time with the Left Hand, in this course we develop that into playing double strokes on the kick in time with the RL or LR hand pattern.
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Two Handed HiHat Killer Kicks 1
Playing the Bass Drum in time with the right hand on the hihat feels okay, but when you play a right foot with a left hand, things get tricky… but this is where the Funk really sets in with these grooves.
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All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, FREE, Ghost Note Grooves, Quarter-Hat Grooves, Shuffle GroovesBouncy Triplet Groove
Ever tried playing with a song and found it has a bouncy feel and it’s tough to play to? The Answer: TRIPLETS! Here’s a groove that will fit and give you an insight into what is happening within these kinds of grooves!
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Off Beat HiHat Killer Kick Grooves 2
By now we are not thinking too much about the hand pattern, we are pushing our right foot whilst at the same time making the off beat stuff completely second nature. Make sure you warm up for this one!
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Killer Crash Breakdown Groove
Big heavy slow hand pattern, with just a couple of syncopated kicks to give it some advanced sounding flavour.
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Two Handed HiHat Grooves
These grooves don’t just allow you to reach new speeds and levels of energy in a groove, but visually they are really engaging for the audience and are fun once you’ve got them!
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Off Beat HiHat Killer Kick Grooves 1
We don’t want to go for an off beat hihat pattern and have the rest of our drumming get dull, just because we are having to focus so much on the hihat. Let’s kick it!
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Off Beat HiHat Tester Groove
A test to see whether Off Beat HiHat Grooves are something you need to work on.
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Cross Stick Groove
Have you tried playing a cross stick within an intricately advanced drum groove? Or do you only save it for the simple stuff?
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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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6/8 Jump Groove
Working those kick drums in-between hi-hat notes, even in a 6/8 time signature, can make for some seriously groovy beats.
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Killer Kick 16th HiHats
Three notes on the kick drum can be tricky, so try working on them in multiple placements within a 16th note hi-hat drum groove.
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Triple Kick Pull Out Accent
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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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Floor Tom Skippy Kick
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Barking Left Hand HiHat
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Off Beat HiHat Grooves
Off Beat means ‘in-between’ the downbeats (1234), so playing the HiHat on the ‘&’ when we play 1&2&3&4&. It sounds cooler than it sounds…
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1 Note Butt Kicker
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All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, Coordination, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Syncopated GroovesOpen HiHats With Syncopated Kicks
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Two Handed HiHat Funk
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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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Fast Kick Stuff
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