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Bass Drum Slide Technique

Bass Drum Slide Technique Learn an effective bass drum technique This Is The Bass Drum Slide Technique Welcome to the bass drum slide technique dum lesson.There are several viable bass drum techniques available to you but this is the one that I find most universally useable regardless of style or equipment.Many drummers find their bass drum technique to be a frustration that holds them back and sometimes we ignore foot technique, instead putting much greater focus on the hands.But the feet should be treated as equal limbs to the hands so we need to put as much time and effort…

Rudiments in Drum Fills

Rudiments In Drum Fills Course Learn how to apply rudiments to drum fills This Is The Rudiments For Drum Fills Course Welcome to the rudiments in drum fills course. Here we will learn how to apply rudiments to drum fills.Rudiments can be very boring to learn, spending hours on the snare drum or practice pad sometimes not knowing why we're doing it. BUT, if you can understand how important they are, and how much they can improve your drumming then you will be much more motivated to practice them.This course takes a series of common rudiments and turns them into…

How to play a cross stick on the drums

How to play a cross stick on the drums Learn how to play a cross stick This Is The Cross Stick Drum Lesson Welcome to the cross stick drum lesson. If you want to know how to play a cross stick on the drums then you are about to find out! Cross sticks are sometimes called rim clicks or, incorrectly, rim shots. These are played on the snare drum and give as a softer alternative to a back beat on the full snare. They allow drummers to offer more dynamics within a song as well as offering more sonic options when.…

How To Make Your Ride Cymbal Sound Good

Make Your Ride Cymbal Sound Good Learn how to make your ride cymbal sound good Here we are looking at getting great ride tones Welcome to a creative lesson discussing how to make your ride cymbal sound good.Many drummers don't realise just how expressive the ride cymbal is and they simply bash away at it sing it as a one dimensional sound source.But it is SO expressive and if we learn how to unlock all of its tones we can be much more musical drummers.So if you've ever wondered why your ride cymbal sounds bad or struggled to get your…

How to increase rudiment speed

How to increase rudiment speed The secret to playing faster rudiments Many people ask me how to increase rudiment speed and they usually hate my answer I'm sorry but it does take hard work and time. But the problem is that most people I see are actually wasting their time focusing on speed. And that is causing huge problems. They would actually be better off not practicing at all! If you want to know how to increase rudiment speed and general speed on the drums then we have to go very slowly. I know that is boring but trust me, you…

How to develop rudiment speed

How to develop rudiment speed The secret to playing faster rudiments Many people ask me how to develop rudiment speed and they usually hate my answer I'm sorry but it does take hard work and time. But the problem is that most people I see are actually wasting their time focusing on speed. And that is causing huge problems. They would actually be better off not practicing at all! If you want to know how to develop rudiment speed and general speed on the drums then the key is to slow right down. The reason we need to go slow is…

How to Sight Read Music

Learn How to Sight Read Music Learn how to sight read music with this beginners course If you want to learn how to sight read music then well done for recognising how important this skill is. Being able to read music means you can learn to play music much faster and more independently but it also means you can go for gigs that non-reading musicians can't go for. Reading is a great skill for many types of gigs whether it's recording studio work, theater gigs, playing in a big band, cruise ship orchestra and many more. If you learn how…

Drum Solo Challenge

Drum Solo Challenge Learn how to play a drum solo with the drum solo challenge The drum solo challenge is a great exercise that works for any level of drummer whether beginner or expert. It's called the drum solo challenge but you set how hard you want the challenge to be. Here we are learning how to create a drum solo around ensemble stabs or band figures. By that I mean that the band are playing a phrase and you fill in the gaps between those phrases whilst also choosing how to connect with those band figures. It's a fun…

Best Jazz Rudiment for Drums

Best Jazz Rudiment Learn how to play jazz like a pro with this effective rudiment This Is The Best Jazz Rudiment Drum Lesson Why is this the best jazz rudiment I hear you ask? Well, first of all it sits naturally in the swung rhythm and jazz is predominantly swung. Secondly it flows very easily around the basic jazz ride pattern.If you aren’t familiar with the basic jazz groove then watch this FREE video lesson.So what is the rudiment?We are talking about the mighty paradiddlediddle. What a name! If you aren’t too hot with your rudiments you might like the…

Learn Drum Rudiments

Learn the Essential Drum Rudiments Rudiments are essential WITHOUT RUDIMENTS you are missing the fundamental building blocks of drumming. Whether you like it or not we all need rudiments. As a drummer you cannot escape them. If students that are adamant that they don't won't to get involved with 'proper' learning of the drums, they must still understand that they will inevitably use rudiments every time they sit at the drums. Take a very basic snare roll that Travis Barker plays at high speeds in a Blink 182 song. Any drummer that wants to learn that has to learn to…