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Hi-hat Barks

Hi-hat Barks Learn how to play funky hi-hat accents This Is The Hi-hat Barks Drum Lesson Welcome to the Hi-hat barks drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play funky hi-hat accents.This live drum lesson tackled a funky technique sometimes called hi-hat barks. This allows us to make staccato accents, often in syncopated phrases within the bar.It's a really cool technique and sounds awesome but isn't that difficult to execute. You just need to know the correct method and then get the timing right between the limbs.And that's exactly what you will learn in this lesson. You'll also get…

You’ve Got To Funkifize Drum Beat

You’ve Got To Funkifize Drum Beat Learn how to play an awesome funk drum beat This Is The You’ve Got To Funkifize Drum Beat Lesson Welcome to the You've Got To Funkifize drum beat lesson. Here we will learn how to play a classic funk song.This was released in 1972 on the Tower of Power album 'Bump City'.It features David Garibaldi on drums creating a very typical groove of his style. Which means it is very cool!Garibaldi has inspired so many drummers since the 1970s and is still one of the greatest funk drummers on planet earth. So any excuse…

Drum Teacher Health Check

Drum Teacher Health Check Find out how you can scale up your drum teaching business 60 Second Free Drum Teacher Health Check The drum teacher health check is a totally free opportunity to get insights into how you can improve your drum teaching business.It only takes 60 seconds to complete and you will receive feedback to help you become a drum teacher with a thriving business.This is useful to established drum teachers that want to get more drum students and it is also great for drummers at the start of their teaching journey who want to know how to start…

Subdivision Drum Challenge

Subdivision Drum Challenge Develop Your Polyrhythmic Limb Independence This Is The Subdivision Drum Challenge Welcome to the subdivision drum challenge. This will test your limb independence to the maximum. This is a real test for any drummer so get ready to work your brain hard!We will focus on the hands here and get you playing different subdivisions with each hand. Some of those are quite easy, such as eighth notes and sixteenth notes, but some are really hard. The hardest might be playing sixteenth notes with one hand and quintuplets with the other. Oh yes we do that and it's…

Sexy Sextuplet Paradiddles

Sexy Sextuplet Paradiddles Learn how to play a creative drum fill using the paradiddle This Is The Sexy Sextuplet Paradiddles Drum Lesson Welcome to the sexy sextuplet paradiddles drum lesson. This is a really fun paradiddle drum fill with a twist because we dip a toe into implied metric modulation which might deceive the listener into thinking we've changed tempo when actually we're just playing a four note phrasing over sextuplets.Sound confusing? Well hopefully 🤞 this video will break it down so that it makes sense.Once we understand these concepts we can use them in our fills and drum beats…

Mix Yourself On The Drums

Mix Yourself On The Drums Learn how to use great dynamics on the drums Mix Yourself On The Drums Here we will learn how to mix yourself on the drums.Having excellent command of your dynamics across all your limbs is crucial. Great drummers, such as Steve Gadd, are regularly called in partly because they can mix themselves whilst playing. Inexperienced drummers struggle with this and therefore the balance between their different drum kit voices can be poor and that affects the entire groove.But we can work on this so that we have total control of the dynamics between every limb…

David Bowie Drummers

David Bowie Drummers Learn how to play the grooves from 1970s David Bowie This Is The David Bowie Drummers Course Welcome to the David Bowie drummers course. Here we will learn how to play some of the best drum parts from Bowie's 1970s albums.This include his period as Ziggy Stardust and featured drummers such as Woody Woodmansey and Aynsley Dunbar.The songs have stood the test of time and are still some of his best loved work with songs such as Suffragette City, Ziggy Stardust, Jean Genie, Diamond Dogs and Rebel Rebel.There are some really memorable drum parts here so let's get…

Average White Band Drum Beats

Average White Band Drum Beats Learn how to play classic AWB drum grooves This Is The Average White Band Drum Beats Course Welcome to the Average White Band drum beats course. Here we will learn how to play some classic grooves from the Scottish funk band.Average White Band are best known for the track Pick Up The Pieces but they were responsible for a slew of amazing funk and R&B songs.In this drum course we will study grooves from Robbie McIntosh and Steve Ferrone for songs such as Got the love, Work to do, Pick up the pieces, Person to…

Tower of Power Drum Beats

Tower of Power Drum Beats Learn how to play David Garibaldi's Best Drum Grooves This Is The Tower of Power Drum Beats Course Welcome to the Tower of Power drum beats course. Here we will learn how to play the grooves of David Garibaldi.David Garibaldi has been the drummer for Oakland funk band, Tower of Power, since 1970, although not continuously.He is responsible for some of my favourite funk grooves which weave complex patterns that perfectly complement the rich rhythmic bass guitar and horn lines of Tower of Power.And he executes those tricky rhythms flawlessly and seemingly with great ease.…

Parliament Drum Beats

Parliament Drum Beats Learn how to play classic drum grooves from George Clinton's Parliament This Is The Parliament Drum Beats Course Welcome to the Parliament drum beats course. In this drum lesson course we break down some of the drum beats on classic tracks from George Clinton's Parliament. We look at tracks such as Funky woman, Moonshine Heather, Up for the downstroke, If it don’t fit don’t force it, Mothership Connection and Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication.Parliament was headed up by George Clinton and very closely connected to his other group 'Funkadelic'. In fact the two bands came to be known as Parliament-Funkadelic before…