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Category: Dynamics
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Here is a Bell Ride pattern to try out
Try this RRL phrase which uses the bell to pick up the back beat.
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Here is a Tick Tock Groove Idea
Some snare drum and cross stick ideas to enhance your grooves.
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Prolonged Ghost Note Application
Deceptively simple, yet effective when used in context!
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How to Groove with the Snare Drum
Some tips on creating single stroke accent grooves
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A Nifty Little Left Handed Ghost Note Focus
Sometimes it’s nice to put a focus on something you feel proud of
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Tips for Quiet Drumming
Some quick tips for playing quiet at home and in a band, but still expressing yourself creatively.
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Ghosted Shuffle Grooves 2
Add a busy triplet texture to your shuffles by adding ghost notes in between your hi-hat notes. Plus working three consecutive snare notes into shuffles.
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Flip-Flop Accents
A Simple exercise in theory, but physically pulling it off will make your head spin and your groove sound killer!
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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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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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Accented Non-Linear Double Kick Fill
Work on some Single Stroke Accents whilst keeping constant double kick 16ths underneath for a pretty aggressive sounding fill!
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Advanced Ghost Note Control
An ‘Automatic’ Ghost Note Groove with a Focus on a tough left hand dynamic control exercise.
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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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332 Dynamic Groupings
332 is a very common rhythm in all music. Here is a sticking which incorporates this in dynamic ways.
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5-Stroke Resolution
Rhythmically, a 5-stroke roll is equal to three 8th notes, which means fitting it into 4/4 takes some kind of resolution. Here is one.
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Switching In and Out of Two Handed HiHat Grooves
Moving between a one handed 8th and a two handed 16th environment, with some fancy accents to make it funky!
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Accented 664 Fill
Accenting the first two notes of a single stroke roll with this grouping exercise. Playing it as a fill creates a fantastic dynamic sound full of energy!
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Basic Accents 2
Working Accents into hand-to-hand single strokes now. This is a core dynamic practice which I’ve had many advanced students still have issues with.
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Basic Accents 1
Playing Loud and Soft notes sounds simple, but the mechanics stop many people from being able to do them fast. This course on working both hands in Unison will help.
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Resolving Paradiddle-diddles
Try out some new stickings with this Paradiddle-diddle combination exercise.
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3 Reasons My Fills Dont Suck
A collection of tips to make your Fills sound better!
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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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772 Fill
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Single Stroke Accent Permutations
We are going to use the Permutations Grid now to explore all possible accent placements. Going through this will help you find the weak placements that you may not have realised you struggled with, but will help you master every combination.
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Delicate 6-Stroke Roll Fill
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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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Single Stroke Dynamics
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‘Edge Of Your Seat’ Crescendo
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Useful Double Stroke Ideas
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Using A Buzz In A Groove
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Quick Start Doubles
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Ghost Note Syncopation Groove
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Single Stroke Speedrun
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Double Stroke Pick Up Fill
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Intricate Snare Work
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Ghost Control
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Dynamic Linear Fill
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All Content, Coordination, Dynamics, Ghost Note Grooves, PREMIUM, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused GroovesDynamic Snare Groove
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Two Handed Snare Groove
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