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Category: Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves
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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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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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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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Try This In Your 6/8 Grooves
A little rhythmic variation which works nicely in 6/8.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Tricky Layer Groove
Work on all four limbs in this busy exercise which explores many components!
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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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Barking Left Hand HiHat
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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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Left Foot In Triplets
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Weakness Or Strength
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6/8 Syncopation Station Nation
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A Common HiHat Issue
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A Right Hand Variation
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The Awol Ghost Note Groove
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Multi-Layer Groove
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Kick and Open HiHat Groove
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Want Your Groove To Sound More Complicated
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Nasty HiHat, Snare and Kick Groove
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Note Rates / Left Foot
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Bits and Bobs Groove
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Ghost Note Open HiHat Displacement Groove
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Grooves, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Straight 8th GroovesPartial Inverted Paradiddle Groove
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All Content, Coordination, FREE, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Song Lessons, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Stylistic GroovesBasic Mambo
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6/8 HiHat Variant
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All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, Off Beat HiHat Grooves, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused GroovesSingle Stroke Walk Down Fill
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All Content, BASIC SKILLS, Coordination, PREMIUM, Rhythm and Theory, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves16th Note Rhythms
Moving on from Quarter and Eighth Notes, 16th Notes are the note rate which most drummers use for ‘fast’ fills.
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