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Category: Ghost Note Grooves
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Paradiddle-diddle Groove
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Pretend Off Time Groove
When you want to sound different… without being different.
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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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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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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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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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How to FAKE being a Samba Drummer
How to turn your regular grooves into something that sounds latin.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ghosted Shuffle Grooves 1
Applying Ghost Notes in unison with the hihat during shuffles.
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Tricky Component Groove
A few things here, the main one being a long string of 4 ghost notes, plus some open hats, right hand variations and nasty kicks.
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Two Handed HiHat Ghost Note Grooves
So you have some ghost note grooves, but when you put two hands on the hihat, all that fancy stuff dies away… unless you learn to apply them, with both Rights and Lefts moving between HiHat and Snare.
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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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6/8 Ghost Notes
The whole RLRL Ghost note thing get’s picked up by most drummers… but what about playing it songs based in 6?
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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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RLL Groove Application
These grooves always sound way more complex than they are, once you get RLL down you will forever be able to insert triplet ghost notes in a groove!
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Off Beat HiHat Ghost Note Grooves 2
Developing our Ghost notes further here with Ghosts directly before and after the backbeat, causing some major focus on hand technique and independence to pull it off.
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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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Triple Kick Pull Out Accent
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Tricky Layer Groove
Work on all four limbs in this busy exercise which explores many components!
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Off Beat HiHat Ghost Note Grooves 1
When learning straight ghost notes, we kind of rely on the HiHat for the placement of them. In this course we learn to give our ghost notes more independence so we can play them no matter what the HiHat is doing.
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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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Ghost Note Grooves 2
Let’s explore ‘diddled’ ghost notes, and timing them with the hihat to create some nice complimenting rhythms on the snare during a groove.
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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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A Cool Groove
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RLK Linear Groove
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Alternative Paradiddle Groove
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Four On The Snare Groove
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