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Category: BASIC 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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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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Punk Rock Groove
Double Time Groove with Classic Kick Placements
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Pretend Off Time Groove
When you want to sound different… without being different.
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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 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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Mixed Two Handed HiHat Grooves
It is not a choice between playing Straight 8th or Two Hands on the HiHat. Lets learn to switch between them in a bunch of musical ways.
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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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Two Handed HiHat Snare Variations
This course looks at moving the Right Hand down to the snare in more places than just the backbeat, whilst keeping two hands on the HiHat on all the other notes.
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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 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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Off Beat HiHat Snare Variations
Working various Snare placements into an off beat hihat environment. Working on building our hand coordination to give us total freedom in 8th notes.
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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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8th Note Tom Grooves
Recycle your grooves by moving your HiHat patterns to the Floor Tom, and then develop that into some more interesting Tom Grooves.
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Mixed Note Rate HiHat Grooves
We have moved our Bass and Snares around, but what changes can we make to the HiHat pattern to enhance our Grooves?
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Triplet Grooves
Also known as 6/8 or 12/8 Grooves, working with three’s can always be a little awkward, but this course will help you get these essential grooves down.
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Open HiHat Grooves
It’s only a slight variation, but it makes your grooves sound so much more interesting by lifting up your HiHat foot in these places.
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Using The Crash Cymbal
Here are some 8th note crash placements designed to give you confidence inserting the crash within your grooves smoothly and effortlessly.
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Basic Rock Grooves
Building from the Pop Grooves, we look here at moving snare notes around in a bar to build confidence in our coordination.
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All Content, BASIC GROOVES, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, PREMIUM, Straight 8th Grooves, Stylistic GroovesBasic Pop Grooves
A first look at groove playing, with a consistent hand pattern whilst moving bass drums around to create interest.
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RnB Grooves
A faster HiHat pattern in your groove gives it a real driving feel, and opens up more kick and snare placements which line up with your hihat.
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Your First Lesson
New Drummer or wanting to start afresh? This is the lesson for you! In this lesson we take a look at the basics of three main areas of drumming.
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Hard Rock Grooves
Less HiHats mean fast potential speed for a groove… if you can get the coordination sorted! Quarter note HiHats, 8th Note Kicks.
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