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Category: GROOVE FOCUS
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Two Handed Tom Groove
Taking our Two Handed HiHat Grooves concept and applying it to the toms!
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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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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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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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Green Day Tom Groove
Here is a pattern based on ‘American Idiot’ by Green Day. A cool Tom groove to try for anyone, even new drummers!
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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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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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Off Beat HiHat Crash Variations
Playing off beat hihats is fine, until you add something else for your right hand to do, such as hitting the crash!
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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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16th Double Kick Grooves 2
Exploring filling out a kick pattern by using the Left Kick pedal, as well as some broken patterns.
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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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16th Double Kick Grooves 1
Double Kick isn’t just about relentless strings of notes, it’s about musical patterns. In this course we explore the basics of double kick, with groups of 3, 4 and 5 underneath a solid backbeat.
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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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HiHat Off Beat
Here is a Tom Groove with a main focus of getting your left foot playing the HiHat on the off beats. This can feel strange at first but it gives your grooves a great feel, even when you move your hand from the floor Tom.
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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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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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RKRK Single Stroke Floor Tom Application
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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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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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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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Double Kick Stack Attack
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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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A Cool Groove
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Fast Kick Stuff
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Cymbal Switching Multi-Tasker
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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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Inverted Double Stroke Chop
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Floor Tom Double Kick
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