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From The Cradle Drum Grooves

From The Cradle Drum Grooves Learn how to play some classic Jim Keltner blues grooves on the Eric Clapton album This Is The From The Cradle Drum Grooves lesson Welcome to the From The Cradle drum grooves drum lesson. Here we break down a selection or Jim Keltner's drum beats on the Eric Clapton album 'From The Cradle'.From the cradle was a blues album released by Eric Clapton in 1994 which saw him covering a collection of classic blues songs that he loved in his formative years. It delved back into very authentic blues and gave it a modern sound.To…

Can You Make A Living As A Drum Teacher

Can You Make A Living As A Drum Teacher How Much Money Can You Make Teaching Drums? Can You Make A Living As A Drum Teacher Question: Is it actually possible to make good money as a drum teacher?[REMINDER]: Have you booked your free drum teacher training yet? If not click here.The answer is simple.....Yes you can make a living as a drum teacher!But how does it really work out financially?For many drummers who are thinking about making a full time living from music with teaching drums as a major part of the income, it can seem scary. In many cases…

Essential Blues Fills

Essential Blues Fills Learn how to play the core blues drum fills This Is The Essential Blues Fills Lesson Welcome to the essential blues fills drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play the core blues drum fills.We recently learnt some core blues drum beats which were largely based on the swung shuffle rhythm (although not all of them were). But if you've got some beats learnt you need drum fills to go with them. And that's what we're exploring in this lesson.These drum fills are also swung so we break down how to move around the kit in…

Essential Blues Drum Beats

Essential Blues Drum Beats Learn how to play the core blues drum beats This Is The Essential Blues Drum Beats Lesson Welcome to the essential blues drum beats. Here we will learn how to play some of the core blues drum beats.Blues is such a great style to play and it's dripping with feel. But first we have to get really comfortable with the basic shuffles. So this lesson starts there.But once we've got those sorted, we move onto some interesting variations that go deeper into the blues genre.There's also a drumless track included so you can practice your new…

Can you make a living teaching drums?

Can You Make A Living Teaching Drums? How much can you really earn as a drum teacher? Can You Make A Living Teaching Drums? Question: Can you make a living teaching drums?[REMINDER]: Have you watched the free drum teacher training yet? If not click here.The answer is simple.....YES!But let's break this down so you can really see how much you can earn as a drum teacher. Before we get into this I should say that every country and even every town in each country will fluctuate so it is region specific. But the cost of living also varies in the same…

Does This Drum Beat Slow Down? Or Is It A Trick?

Does This Drum Beat Slow Down? Or Is It A Trick? Learn how to play some weird rhythms in a fill This Is A Fun Rhythmic Illusion Welcome to this drum lesson where we ask you, "Does This Drum Beat Slow Down? Or Is It A Trick?With this drum lesson you will gain an understanding in how we can manipulate the rhythms by going inside different subdivisions.It sees us dabbling with metric modulation and polyrhythms. It is quite a tricky thing to get your head around but we will learn the drum fill in six simple steps. That makes this…

Paradiddle Drum Beat With A Twist

Paradiddle Drum Beat With A Twist Learn how to play a messed up paradiddle drum beat This Is The Paradiddle Drum Beat With A Twist Lesson Welcome to the paradiddle drum beat with a twist drum challenge. This drum lesson will mess your head up and hopefully inspire you simultaneously. If it does one of those then I'm happy.We will take the humble standard paradiddle and turn it into a drum beat. This is pretty normal behaviour and creates a very useable, funky drum groove.But then we are going to displace it to create something weird and wonderful. This is…

8th Note Triplet Fills

8th Note Triplet Fills. Learn how to play 8th note triplet drum fills This Is The 8th Note Triplet Fills Lesson Welcome to this 8th note triplet fills drum lesson. Here we will develop your triplet drum fills. Drummers often start playing straight eighth and sixteenth notes in fills. Triplets can seem a bit mysterious.But they are an essential subdivision to master and once you get comfortable with them you can play freely in swung music as well as using triplets in straight music to create an interesting effect.This lesson will help you develop your confidence and ability with triplet…

Easy Tribal Drum Beat That Sounds Awesome

Easy Tribal Drum Beat That Sounds Awesome Learn how to play a powerful tom tom drum beat This Is The Easy Tribal Drum Beat That Sounds Awesome Welcome to the easy tribal drum beat that sounds awesome. Right at the start of the video you'll hear how cool this drum beat sounds. It has that raw tribal energy that never fails to please.We create that effect by making heavy use of the tom toms. This instantly creates a powerful, moody sound. And it allows us to use both hands across the kit to give complexity to the groove from the…

16th Note Subdivision Drum Fills

16th Note Subdivision Drum Fills Learn how to play difficult sounding drum fills that are easy to learn This Is The 16th Note Subdivision Drum Fills Welcome to this drum lesson where we will learn how to play 16th note subdivision drum fills.16th notes are one of the most used subdivisions in fills but a lot of drummers play very predictable phrasing within the 16th note framework. But there are so many options to get creative and play amazing sounding drum fills that are actually really easy to play.This drum lesson focuses on how we can develop those more interesting…