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Category: GROOVE FOCUS
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All Content, FREE, One Handed 16th HiHat Grooves, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Stylistic GroovesRnB Hand Rest Groove
A simple RnB groove with a tip on how to give your hand a break during those fast right hand hi-hat sections.
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Basic Snare Comping Jazz Groove
Coordinating a Simple Snare Rhythm against the Jazz Ride Pattern. Plus a couple of tips on swing and working the left foot in.
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Basic Backbeat Crash Placement
Basic Level lesson, introducing using the Crash on a back-beat at the same time as the snare.
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All Content, Coordination, PREMIUM, Shuffle Grooves, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Stylistic GroovesBasic Jazz Grooves 1
Exploring the basics of Jazz, overcoming common challenges when coming from a pop/rock background, as well as exploring the Jazz Ride Pattern, Bass Drum Feathering and Comping.
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4D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Coordination, FREE, Off Beat HiHat Grooves, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Tom GroovesOff Independence Groove
A 4D Coordination Groove/ Fill, all about getting your left foot into one of my favourite placements, and playing a floor tom rhythm against it.
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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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Subtle and Aggressive Linear Phrase
Two variations of a linear phrase I often use in my solos, which sounds very fancy and can be used for both delicate and aggressive Groove and Fill applications.
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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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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, FREE, Grouping Fills, Odd Time Fills, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused GroovesOdd Time Single Stroke Bark Fill
A challenging mix here, of a 772 Grouping within a 7/8 Bar! Plus some footwork and hihat barks! Good Luck!
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Crash De Crash Placement
Rhythmically this Crash Placement looks tough, but it’s not overly difficult to do and sounds great when played with a groove!
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Odd Time 7/8 Syncopation Groove
Odd Time isn’t as bad as you think, it’s just applying what you know with a different number of notes in the bar!
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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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Ghost Break Variation
Some thoughts on the ‘Amen Break’ Groove and a little displaced snare and open hi-hat variation.
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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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Quarter HH 16th Double Kick Grooves
Taking our Double Kick grooves into new territory now by applying them in a Quarter Note Environment
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Left Hand Choke Double Kick Groove
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Ghosted Shuffle Grooves 1
Applying Ghost Notes in unison with the hihat during shuffles.
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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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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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Foot Ostinatos 1
Simple Hand Pattern, Simple Foot Patterns. Some Incredibly difficult patterns to master at speed!
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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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Two Handed Open HiHat Placements 1
With two hands on the HiHat it can be tricky to make decent sounding Open HiHats in a groove. Let me show you how I time them so you can work them into this environment.
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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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Off Beat HiHat Syncopation Grooves 2
Developing all the components to become completely free in an off beat hihat environment.
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Two Handed HH Crash Placements 1
The hands are busy enough during two handed HiHat grooves, so drummers often just don’t play crashes as it is ‘too hard’. Let’s sort that out.
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Syncopated 16th Double Kick Grooves 2
Things are getting musical with these partial syncopated double kick patterns under a solid backbeat.
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Syncopated 16th Double Kick Grooves 1
Exploring a great syncopation concept, which looks at playing simple grooves which get enhanced to become complex double kick patterns by simply playing left foot off beats.
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Off Beat HiHat Syncopation Grooves 1
Bringing it all together, Off Beat HiHat Doubling, Ghost Notes and Advanced Kick Patterns. Remember why you are practicing, and push on!
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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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Tom-Tom Groove
A great Tom groove for newer drummers or those looking for something new. It has both hands moving to the toms and getting you out of the same old Hi-Hat/ Snare hand position.
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Off Beat Open HiHat Placements
As off beat patterns can feel a little unstable at first, adding a fourth limb into the mix can cause coordination issues. It is worth building that skill though!
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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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