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Category: Coordination
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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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All Content, Bass Drum Focused Grooves, Coordination, Core Foot Technique, FREE, Straight 8th GroovesA groove that will help develop Foot Speed
One Groove with a collection of opportunities to work on your foot technique!
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The exercise that fixed my students feet
I have taught this exercise to many drummers and seen great results
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How to Groove with the Snare Drum
Some tips on creating single stroke accent grooves
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Try these Left Hand Rhythms to improve your grooves
Demonstrated on the cowbell, but great for developing your Ghost Notes too!
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How to do an Open Handed Floor Kick thing I do
Here are some exercises on developing this kind of improvisation.
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How to FAKE being a Samba Drummer
How to turn your regular grooves into something that sounds latin.
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This may mess up your hands!
Can you rub your belly and pat your head? What about this Left Hand transition whilst playing a Two Handed Hi-Hat Groove?
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Mathematical Kick Burner
Practice for longer by adding a simple mental challenge to the mix. Whilst focusing on your hands, your feet and coordination will receive the benefits.
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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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Resolved Groupings 1
Break out of those Vanilla Drum Licks and explore some simple alternating and non-alternating 3, 5 and 7 phrases. Learn How to resolve them into 4/4 so that they fit smoothly into your playing.
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4D-332 Coordination
Working on a Simple Foot pattern with a 332 Single Stroke Grouping on top. On their own they’re not too bad, played together it can cause some conflicting rhythms worth overcoming.
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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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Resolved Fives over a Splash Hat
Using a HiHat foot technique which many drummers dont often use, at the same time as a Grouping exercise with the hands for a great independence workout!
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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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Foot Ostinatos 1
Simple Hand Pattern, Simple Foot Patterns. Some Incredibly difficult patterns to master at speed!
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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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Four On The Snare Groove
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Left Foot In Triplets
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Strawberry Coconut Rhythms
It sounds daft, but the food rhythms work, but I will also show you the traditional way to count these more complex rhythms too!
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Layered Ostinato
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Multi-Layer Groove
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Ostinato Interplay 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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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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333331 Coordination
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All Content, Coordination, Dynamics, Ghost Note Grooves, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused GroovesDynamic Snare Groove
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All Content, Coordination, One Handed 16th HiHat Grooves, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused GroovesFootwork Problem
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Left Foot Facelift
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Amen Ostinato Mixer
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5 Stroke Roll Co-ordination Exercise
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This Is Gonna Herta
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Not So Easy 3’s
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How To Sound Like Multiple Drummers
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All Content, Coordination, Ghost Note Grooves, One Handed 16th HiHat Grooves, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused GroovesAdvanced Pick ‘n’ Mix Groove
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3 Over 2 Poly-Groove
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Coordination, Dynamics, Grouping Fills, PREMIUM, Speed and Control333331 RLL Pattern
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