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Category: INTERMEDIATE 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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Off Beat Variation
A neat little linear variation to spice up your off beat grooves.
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Swinging 6/8 Groove
A subtle change to your 6/8 grooves to make it bounce!
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLS, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Rhythmic FillsSubtle Herta HiHat Lick
When you just need a little bit of spice in your music.
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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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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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6/8 Two Handed HiHat Grooves
Applying some of the principles from other two handed hihat courses, and translating them into six useful 6/8 grooves you can apply right away.
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Mixed Two Handed HiHat Grooves 3
Working in some pretty heavy syncopation on the hihat with two hands whilst keeping a solid kick and snare pattern.
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Mixed Two Handed HiHat Grooves 2
Working on short partial layers of two handed hihat grooves in a straight 8th environment.
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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 Doubling 2
There are two main variations of the doubles you can use in off beat hihat grooves, this course explains the difference between them and how to not mix them up!
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Off Beat HiHat Doubling 1
A fairly simple concept of playing two off beat HiHat notes instead of one, but the timing of it can get sloppy when adding extra kicks and snares. Aim for precision to keep those grooves tight!
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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 Bass Drum Boot Camp
All that lovely syncopated bass drum stuff from the Bass Drum Boot Camp, but this time in 6/8!
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6/8 Ghost Note Grooves
Looking at straight and two diddled ghost note variations in a 6/8 groove environment. If you can do it in 4/4, you should always try and apply it in 6/8.
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Groovy Tom Grooves
16th Note Tom Grooves, with a focus on using single strokes to make the grooves more musical.
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Shuffle Grooves
I find most drummers have a few fudged together shuffles they can use during a gig, but having a good understanding of them is the basis to building a solid confidence when playing shuffles.
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All Content, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Straight 8th GroovesLeft Foot Coordination
Bring your left foot into your grooves by keeping time in multiple ways. The visual element of the hihat ticking away is great for you, the band and the audience.
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Right Hand Variations
The HiHat is not just for keeping a grid that you play everything else against, it is a musical instrument which deserves something more musical than ‘tick tick tick’.
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Bass Drum Boot Camp
My go-to course for developing your foot technique in grooves. Focusing on two double stroke variations, plus kicks in between hihat notes.
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Ghost Note Grooves 1
Ghost notes are super soft notes on the snare, and this course looks at placing them between hihat notes, and also how to move that concept to the Toms.
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