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Shuffle Fills

Shuffle Fills Learn how to play drum fills with shuffle beats This Is The Shuffle Fills Lesson Welcome to the shuffle fills lesson. Here we will learn how to play drum fills with shuffle grooves.A lot of drummers are very comfortable playing straight 8th note drum beats but they are not used to swinging their grooves. But so much of music is swung that we need to be comfortable in both feels. And swung music goes far beyond just jazz and blues.Swung music is based on triplets but in the shuffle drum beat we miss the middle note in a…

Samba Ostinato Snare Variations

Samba Ostinato Snare Variations Learn how to play a samba ostinato on the drums This Is The Samba Ostinato Snare Variations Lesson Welcome to the Samba ostinato snare variations drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play a Samba ostinato using three of our limbs.We will then break down several left hand patterns to play over the top of it. Once you have nailed those it unlocks the door to start getting musical within this framework and eventually you can improvise in this samba feel.When we play these Latin American styles on the drum kit, we are essentially taking…

Paradiddle Adventures Displaced Accents

Paradiddle Adventures Displaced Accents Learn how to use paradiddles to get creative! This Is The Paradiddle Adventures Displaced Accents Lesson Welcome to the paradiddle adventures displaced accents lesson. Here we will learn how to use paradiddles to create some really interesting patterns.This drum lesson takes the standard paradiddle and moves the accent so you can play it anywhere in the bar. We then create fun fills with the paradiddle.Scroll down to start the paradiddle adventures displaced accents lesson. Click to access the lesson Click here Faster Hands in 7 Days FREE Challenge By clicking below you can gain access to…

Alternating Limbs Drum Workout

Alternating Limbs Drum Workout Are you ready for a serious drum workout? This Is The Alternating Limbs Drum Workout Welcome to the alternating limbs drum workout. Here you will be tested and pushed to see how good your coordination is around the drum kit.These exercises take you on a journey that will show you how to develop your four limb independence as well as your coordination between the limbs.Many of these exercises directly transfer into exciting drum fills so we'll look at that too.Scroll down to start the alternating limbs drum workout. Click to access the workout Click here Faster…

16 Beat With Syncopated Bass Drums

16 Beat With Syncopated Bass Drums Learn how to play some funky disco grooves This Is The 16 Beat With Syncopated Bass Drums Lesson Here we will learn how to play 16 beats with syncopated bass drums. I know that doesn't sound exciting but trust me.....these are very cool.16 beats are often thought of as disco beats but we're going to make them very funky with this syncopation. This is classic John Robinson territory and particularly thinking of songs such as 'Ain't Nobody' by Chaka Khan.These are deceptively difficult to execute so start slow and gradually build the speed.Scroll down…

Hi-hat Foot Splash Samba Independence

Hi-hat Foot Splash Samba Independence Learn some really cool samba infused independence grooves This Is The Hi-hat Foot Splash Samba Independence Lesson Welcome to the hi-hat foot splash samba independence drum lesson. What a mouthful to say!But if you think it's hard to say that title, it's gonna be even more challenging to play these grooves.But stick with me because this is fun lesson and we break it down super slow so that anyone can learn these. In this lesson you will learn some foundational aspects of playing samba on the drums, you will learn how to splash the hi-hat…

Drum Dynamics In Songs

Drum Dynamics In Songs Learn how to use dynamics to sound musical on the drums This Is The Drum Dynamics In Songs Lesson Welcome in, here we will learn how to use drum dynamics in songs.A good drummer knows how to use dynamics to play musical drum parts. Without dynamics drummers sound very one dimensional and boring.Here we learn how to play a song on the drums. We use a drumless track to demonstrate how you can build excitement in a song by using dynamics.Scroll down to start the drum dynamics on songs lesson. Click to access the lesson Click…

RLRLKK Sextuplet Fills

RLRLKK Sextuplet Fills Learn some fun sextuplet drum fills This Is The RLRLKK Sextuplet Fills Lesson Welcome to the RLRLKK sextuplet fills drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some very cool six note drum fill phrases.These are exciting 6 note drum fills that sound really cool but are actually simple to play. Learn this drum fill and grab the notation with this video walkthrough. Sextuplets are six note phrases. Here we are playing them as sixteenth note triplets so we'll start by breaking those down and learning how to feel them. We will then learn the drum fill pattern…

Paradiddlediddle funk beats

Paradiddlediddle Funk Beats Learn how to use the paradiddlediddle rudiment to play funk This Is The Paradiddlediddle Funk Beats Lesson Welcome to the paradiddlediddle funk beats drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play funk drum beats using a classic rudiment.Like all rudiments, the paradiddlediddle is very simple and it is based upon the standard paradiddle which is played with the sticking pattern:R L R R L R L LWe simply need to add an extra diddle (double) at the end of each four notes so the paradiddlediddle becomes:R L R R L LSo it is a six note…

Five Four Time Signature

Five Four Time Signature Learn how to play five four drum beats This Is The Five Four Drum Lesson Welcome to the five four time signature drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play five four drum beats.Five four time signature means that each bar consists of five quarter notes. The most common time signature is four four so all we've done here is add one beat per bar.Although that sounds easy enough, it can feel very unnatural and takes some time to get used to it.So in this five four drum lesson we will break down several five…