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Advanced Samba For Drumkit

Advanced Samba for Drumkit Learn how to play an advanced samba drum beat on the drumkit This Is The Advanced Samba for Drumkit Drum Lesson Welcome to the advanced samba for drumkit drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play a complex samba pattern.Previously we have looked at bossa nova and a basic street samba. But today we are going hardcore! This involves four limb independence. It involves hi-hat foot splashes. It involves muted and open tones on the toms. There's a lot going on!But we break it down into small parts and learn it very slowly. That means…

Basic Street Samba For Drumkit

Basic Street Samba Learn how to play samba influenced grooves on the drumkit This Is The Basic Street Samba Drum kit Lesson Welcome to the basic street samba drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some really fun and funky samba influenced drum beats.These are the lively rhythms of Brazil adapted for drumkit. We break it down very slowly for beginners and then build it up. It's a real four limb independence test but well worth the effort to learn.We then look at how we can apply these to our everyday drumming to deepen our drumming vocabulary.Scroll down…

Polyrhythm Bass Drum Grooves

Polyrhythm Bass Drum Grooves Learn how to play polyrhythmic drum beats This Is The Polyrhythm Bass Drum Grooves Drum Lesson Welcome to the polyrhythm bass drum grooves drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some fun drum grooves using polyrhythms.Previously we learnt polyrhythm beats with changing snare drums but today we will focus on shifting the bass drum to create polyrhythm.Polyrhythm can seem mysterious at first and some people might not see it as a useful but this lesson will show you easy ways to make your drum beats sounds really interesting by using polyrhythms. We look at…

Polyrhythm Snare Grooves

Polyrhythm Snare Grooves Learn how to play polyrhythmic drum beats This Is The Polyrhythm Snare Grooves Drum Lesson Welcome to the polyrhythm snare grooves drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some fun drum grooves using polyrhythms.Previously we looked at what polyrhythms are and broke down how to easily play them. In this drum lesson we take them to the next stage and develop some really fun drum beats that use polyrhythm between the bass and snare drum.These sound great and are highly useable so you will learn that polyrhythm is an important part of music to understand…

Funk Tom Beats With Left Foot

Funk Tom Beats With Left Foot Learn how to play funky tom based grooves This Is The Funk Tom Beats With Left Foot Drum Lesson Welcome to the funk tom beats with left foot drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play very funky drum beats with an added four limb independence challenge.Previously we looked at the funk tom tom beats which sound amazing but only use three limbs. So these new beats are a step up from those previous grooves.Creating funk beats and then moving them to the toms sounds really effective. But once we start utilising the…

Swung Tom Tom Beats

Swung Tom Tom Beats Learn how to play singing tom tom drum grooves This Is The Swung Tom Tom Beats Drum Lesson Welcome to the swung tom tom beats drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some exciting swung drum beats on the toms which hark back to the big band glory days of the 1930s.We start by breaking down the classic Gene Krupa groove on the Benny Goodman recording of Sing, sing, sing. This is a really fun beat to play and involves all four limbs.From there we use it as a launch pad to learn some…

Tom Tom Linear Beats

Tom Tom Linear Beats Learn some powerful and funky linear tom tom drum beats This Is The Tom Tom Linear Beats Lesson Welcome to the tom tom linear beats drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some really effective tom tom beats. Previously we checked out some funk tom beats.But today we are tackling linear. With linear drumming you only play one thing at a time. So you don't layer up with different limbs as you would in a standard drum beat where you might play the bass drum and hi-hat at the same time.When we start learning…

Funk Tom Beats

Funk Tom Beats Learn how to play funky tom tom rhythms This Is The Funk Tom Beats Drum Lesson Welcome to the funk tom beats drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play funky grooves with a powerful twist.One very rewarding aspect of drumming is that we can repurpose old ideas and turn them into something new. And that is what we do here. We take some classic funk drum beats and give them a new lease of life.With a simple tweak we can make use of the tom toms to create very funky and powerful grooves. These sound…

Rhythmic Displacement 16 Beats

Rhythmic Displacement 16 Beats Learn how to displace funky 16 beats This Is The Rhythmic Displacement 16 Beats lesson Welcome to the rhythmic displacement 16 beats drum lesson. Here we will learn how to displace 16 beat drum patterns.If you are new to this then you should start with the rhythmic displacement using 8th notes drum lesson.But today we will check out some funky 16 beats. Being able to displace these patterns means you have so many more creative options available. And those options are much funkier and more interesting drum patterns.This drum lesson is delivered so that a beginner can…

Nine Eight Drum Beats

Nine Eight Drum Beats Learn how to play drum beats in the nine eight time signature This Is The Nine Eight Drum Beats Lesson Welcome to the nine eight drum beats drum lesson. Here we breakdown the mysterious time signature that is nine eight. It's actually not that mysterious at all.In previous lessons we looked at seven eight and spoke about it's relationship with four four. Four four has four quarter notes in a bar and, therefore, eight eighth notes. Seven eight has seven eighth notes which is just one less.Well nine eight is just as close to four four.…