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Right Limb Unsion Grooves

Right Limb Unison Grooves Learn how to play funk drum beats using paradiddle derived unison phrases This Is The Right Limb Unison Grooves Drum Lesson Welcome to the right limb unison grooves drum lesson. Here we will learn some very funky drum beats.Our brain loves the right limbs working together, and it loves the left limbs working together. So you'll be pleased to know that this drum lesson doesn't involve painful independence exercises.Instead we use the unison approach to create some really interesting patterns that work really well to create drum beats that sound very complex. But when we break…

How To Play A Buzz Roll

How To Play A Buzz Roll Learn how to play a buzz roll on the snare drum This Is The How To Play A Buzz Roll Drum Lesson Welcome to the buzz roll drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play a buzz roll on the snare drum. This is also known as the press roll. It is an essential drum technique that many drummers overlook. I believe that every drummer should know how to play a buzz roll to a reasonable level. It can be used in the traditional drum roll sense but it can also be broken…

Paradiddles Between Right Hand And Right Foot

Paradiddles Between Right Hand And Right Foot Learn how to play fun rudiment drum beats using paradiddles This Is The Paradiddles Between Right Hand And Right Foot Drum Lesson Welcome to the paradiddles between right hand and right foot drum lesson.Here we are taking common paradiddle rudiments and playing them with different limbs. We then orchestrate them in different ways to create some fresh and interesting rudiment drum beats.these exercises will open up your possibilities with rudiments and show you new ways to apply them to music. And it is also a difficult four limb independence challenge as well!Scroll down…

How To Play Double Strokes Fast

How To Play Double Strokes Fast Learn how to play double strokes with great technique This Is The Double Strokes Lesson Welcome to this drum lesson which breaks down how to play double strokes fast.And at the heart of all this talk about going fast, we will find great technique. And that is where we start here.We break down the mechanics of the correct way to play the double stroke and introduce some exercises to help develop it.We then put that to the test and build the speed up incrementally.Scroll down to start the 'how to play double strokes fast'…

Left Hand Builders

Left Hand Control Develop your left hand endurance and control This Is The Left Hand Control Course Welcome to the left hand control drum lesson. Here we will learn how to build your control and endurance with your left hand.Us drummers often spend lots of time developing out strong, dominant hand. It's easy to slip into this behaviour because it feels good. It learns quickly. It is gratifying. But all the time we develop the dominant hand on the drums, we widen the gap between that hand and the weaker hand.For many of us the weak hand is our left…

Single Bass Drum Burst Workout

Single Bass Drum Burst Workout Develop your bass drum speed and control This Is The Single Bass Drum Burst Workout Welcome to the Single Bass Drum Burst Workout. Here we will give your right foot (or left if that is your bass drum foot) a serious workout. We build up the burst phrasing until you can play all the 16th notes within a bar.This is a great method for developing your bass drum speed, control and endurance.Many drummers neglect their feet and focus mainly on the hands but we should aim for our feet to be as well trained as…

Speed Burst Drum Workout

Speed Burst Drum Workout Develop your hand speed and technique with this drum lesson This Is The Speed Burst Drum Workout Welcome to the speed burst drum workout.This drum lesson will work you hard on your handd speed and technique. We will use speed bursts to push you to new levels of hand speed which you can apply to beats and fills.We will work through the exercises using singles, doubles and paradiddles.These exercises are actually taken from my book '52 Performance strategies for the advanced drummer' but we break them down in this lesson so you can perform them no…

The Best Drum Rudiment | Most Versatile Rudiment?

The Best Drum Rudiment Is this really the best drum rudiment? The Best Drum Rudiment Here we are looking at the best drum rudiment. Rudiments are awesome and give us the sticking patterns that we need to unlock our creativity on the drum kit. Rudiments are part of our language and without them we can't speak as eloquently on our instrument. And that is why we must be proficient with the core rudiments if we want to be the best we can on the drums. But which is the best rudiment? Well in reality there isn't really a 'best rudiment'…

Bass Drum Speed Drum Lesson

Bass Drum Speed Lesson Develop faster bass drum speed with this exercise This Is The Bass Drum Speed Lesson Welcome to this bass drum speed drum lesson. This teaches an exercise that effectively develops your bass drum speed. It also helps build your bass drum endurance. This comes from a bass drum speed and endurance course that goes much deeper on developing your bass drum speed.WARNING!I'm sorry to tell you that there is no magic bullet that will give you instant speed on the bass drum. I am truly sorry if you are searching for that because it doesn't exist.…

How to play a drum solo on the hi-hat, bass and snare

How to play a drum solo on the hi-hat, bass and snare This exercise gets you creative on the drum kitWelcome to a drum lesson that shows you how to play a drum solo on the hi-hat, bass and snare.Often when we have to play a drum solo we suddenly find all of our creative ideas disappear. All that brilliant drumming inspiration you normally have has suddenly decided to hide just when you need it!One reason for this is the overwhelm of too many options. We have every technique, rudiment, trick, subdivision, sonic possibility at our disposal and it's too…