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Awesome Tom Tom Drum Beat

Awesome Tom Tom Drum Beat Learn a powerful tribal drum beat. This Is An Awesome Tom Tom Drum Beat Welcome to the awesome tom tom drum beat. We are going to learn an exciting tribal tom tom drum beat. And it sounds really exciting.It sounds way harder than it is because we will break it down one beat at a time so you can learn a really hard sounding tom tom drum beat no matter how long you have been drumming.In fact this drum beat is based on a fairly standard funk pattern so you might already have the core…

How To Play The Black Velvet Drum Beat

How To Play The Black Velvet Drum Beat Learn how to play Black Velvet on the drums. How To Play The Black Velvet Drum Beat Welcome to this drum lesson where we will learn how to play the Black Velvet drum beat.Black Velvet was released in 1988 by Canadian singer Alannah Myles with Jorn Andersen on drums.It is primarily a standard shuffle drum beat with a twist. In this drum lesson we break down the basic shuffle drum pattern but we also discuss the theory behind that 'twist'. What I'm referring to is the instantly recognisable hi-hat accent pattern which…

Five Note Phrased Fills

Five Note Phrased Fills Learn how to play interesting drum fills This Is The Five Note Phrased Fills Lesson Welcome to the five note phrased fills drum lesson.We often phrase our fills in very predictable ways. Beginner drummers play two eighth notes on each drum, or four sixteenth notes on each drum.This works well and sounds good but it is predictable. Sometimes we might want to play less obvious fills and have ideas that sound more interesting.And that's where odd phrasing can help. In this drum lesson we use five note groupings and look at how we can orchestrate those…

How To Drum Like Roger Taylor

How To Drum Like Roger Taylor Learn how to play 1970s Queen drum beats This Is The Roger Taylor Drum Course Welcome to the Roger Taylor course. Here we will learn how to drum like Roger Taylor.Roger has been the drummer for Queen since the beginning and has played an integral part in their sound. Not only does he play the perfect drum parts for the songs, but he also contributes great backing vocals too.And his playing style is very distinctive with quirks such as the way he opens the hi-hat at the same time as hitting the snare drum.We…

Rebel Rebel Drum Notation

Rebel Rebel Drum Notation Learn how to play a classic David Bowie song on drums This Is The Rebel Rebel Drum Notation Welcome to the Rebel Rebel drum notation.Rebel Rebel is classic track from Bowie 70s period. Released in 1974 on the Diamond Dogs album, Rebel Rebel features Aynsley Dunbar on the drums.It came at the end of his glam rock period and is built around a guitar riff. The drums stay very straight which takes discipline for the drummer. This is quite an easy drum song to learn so keeping your place in the music and staying disciplined are…

1970s UK Rock Drumming

1970s UK Rock Drumming Learn how to play the drum beats of Queen, Bowie and Free This Is The 1970s UK Rock Drumming Course Welcome to the 1970s UK rock drumming course. Here we will learn how to play the beats from Bowie, Queen and Free in the 1970s. 1970s rock was awesome. And it was vast so this is quite specifically UK 1970s rock part one. We’ve looked at 1960s rock with The Beatles, Cream and Jimi Hendrix. We’ve also looked at early heavy metal which could also be called late 60s/early 70s hard rock, and that included Led Zep,…

How To Make Your Snare Drum Sound Awesome

How To Make Your Snare Drum Sound Awesome Learn how to get amazing sounds from your snare drum Let's Make Our Snare Drum Sound Great Welcome to the snare drum tones lesson. Here we will learn how to make your snare drum sound awesome.The snare drum is such an expressive drum and it is always at the heart of our grooves and fills. Therefore we should learn to explore every sound that we can draw out of this drum.....and there are a lot.Once we can do this, we can make any snare drum sound good. Some will work best for…

Half Time Shuffle Bass Drum Patterns

Half Time Shuffle Bass Drum Patterns Learn how to play half time shuffles This Is The Half Time Shuffle Bass Drum Patterns Lesson Welcome to the half time shuffle bass drum patterns lesson.This drum lesson delves into half time shuffles and looks at how we can create interesting variations with different bass drum variations.These are awesome grooves with some top examples coming from Toto's Jeff Porcaro. In fact you can learn some of Jeff's best half time shuffles in the 1980s session drummer course.These are not difficult per se but they do have a specific feel and create a brilliant…

Spicing Up Basic Fills

Spicing Up Basic Fills Learn how to turn your beginner drum fills into exciting drum fills. This Is The Spicing Up Basic Fills Lesson Welcome to the spicing up basic fills drum lesson. This was a live lesson within the Total Drummer Academy. Members get these live every week but you can watch this one here.In this drum lesson we take a very basic drum fill and look into ways we can turn it into very interesting drum fills. We can embellish beginner drum fills with these techniques and they will always sound more interesting.You can watch the entire lesson…

16 Beats With Left Hand Open Hi-hats

16 Beats With Left Hand Open Hi-hats Learn how to play funky open hi-hat 16 beats This Is The 16 Beats With Left Hand Open Hi-hats Lesson Welcome to the 16 Beats With Left Hand Open Hi-hats lesson.This was a live lesson inside the Total Drummer Academy. Members enjoy these lessons each week but you can buy this one individually.This drum lesson breaks down funky 16 beats with left hand open hi-hats. When opening a hi-hat with the left hand it creates a very syncopated funky effect because the left hands fall on the 'E's and 'A's of each beat.It…