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Develop Your Internal Metronome

Develop Your Internal Metronome Learn how to develop metronomic timing Let's Develop Your Internal Metronome Welcome to this drum lesson where we will develop your internal metronome.You are probably aware that a modern drummer must be able to play in time with a metronome. It is not just a practice tool anymore. Most recording sessions are done to a click and many live shows are now performed with a metronome to sync backing tracks and other aspects of production.But did you know we can develop our timing in a much deeper way?That's exactly what we are doing in this drum…

Mixed Subdivisions Drum Lesson

Mixed Subdivisions Drum Lesson Learn how to play fills and grooves whilst changing gears. This Is The Mixed Subdivisions Drum Lesson Welcome to the mixed subdivisions drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play between different note values within a bar.This is sometimes described as switching gears and having command of these rhythmic shenanigans allows you to play very interesting drum beats and fills.Just imagine that every beat and fill you play is all sixteenth notes. It would get very predictable and boring. But after this lesson you will be able to flow between:Quarter notesEighth notesEighth note tripletsSixteenth notesQuintupletsSextupletsThese…

Quintuplet Drum Beats

Quintuplet Drum Beats Learn how to play quintuplet drum beats and fills This Is The Quintuplet Drum Beats Lesson Welcome to the quintuplet drum beats and fills lesson. Here we will learn how to play quintuplet drum beats. What the heck is a quintuplet beat you ask? Well let me start by saying that it is not the most common rhythm type. You definitely won't need this groove in a top 40 covers band! So these are definitely not essential grooves but they are a lot of fun and they are really interesting. So for me that's enough of a…

Do They Know It’s Christmas Drum Breakdown

Do They Know It's Christmas Drum Breakdown Learn how to play Do They Know It's Christmas on the drums This Is The Do They Know It's Christmas Drum Breakdown Welcome to the Do They Know It's Christmas drum breakdown. Here we will learn how to play the drum parts for this Christmas classic.We're all very familiar with the well played Christmas song 'Do they know it's Christmas'. Penned by Bob Geldof and recorded at Sarm West studios in London in 1984, it was a charity project to raise funds to tackle famine in Africa. It was recorded by a troop…

AABA Song Form For Drummers

AABA Song Form For Drummers Understand a common song form This Is The AABA Song Form For Drummers Lesson Welcome in. Here we will learn how to understand the AABA song form for drummers.In this drum lesson we break down a common song structure and how to play it on the drums. It's essential to understand these common song forms so that we can play comfortably within the music.....and know where we are within the tune!You might wonder why a drummer needs to understand the 'musical' aspects of a song. Can't we just groove along and 'feel it'? Well yes…

Using Buzz Rolls In Grooves

Using Buzz Rolls In Grooves Here we are breaking down the buzz roll and looking at how we can apply it to make our drum beats more interesting. Using Buzz Rolls In Grooves Welcome to this buzz roll drum lesson. Here we will learn how to start using buzz rolls in grooves.This is one of the fundamental drum techniques (sometimes also called a press roll) but many drummers overlook it and never really get the technique mastered. This is a big mistake because at some point in your drumming life you will need to play a buzz roll.In this drum…

RLKK Fill Ideas

RLKK Fill Ideas Learn how to play easy drum fills that sound awesome This Is The RLKK Fill Ideas Drum Lesson Welcome to the RLKK fill ideas drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some really cool drum fills. This drum lesson is suitable for beginners but will also give you some great ideas if you've been playing drum for a while.The approach we are using here is to create a fixed sticking pattern and then look at how we can use that in different creative ways. This is an effective way to easily learn lots of fill…

How to play Cantaloupe Island on the drums

How to play Cantaloupe Island on the drums Learn how to play a classic Tony Williams drum part This Is The Cantaloupe Island Drum Lesson Welcome to the Cantaloupe Island drum lesson where we will learn how to play Cantaloupe Island on the drums.Cantaloupe Island was recorded for Herbie Hancock's 1964 album called Empyrean Isles. It featured Ron Carter on bass, Freddie Hubbard on cornet and Tony WIlliams on drums.It has became one of Herbie's best loved and most enduring tunes and the drum parts are well worth studying. So that's what we do here!This is delivered so that even…

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…

Seven Eight Rudiments

Seven Eight Rudiments Learn how to use rudiments in odd time grooves This Is The Seven Eight Rudiments Drum Lesson Welcome to the seven eight rudiments drum lesson. Here we will learn how to use rudiments to create awesome drum beats.Rudiments are a fundamental part of our drumming vocabulary but they are not just boring old exercises that we do because our drum teacher says we should. They are the building blocks for so many drum beats and fills.So in this lesson we will take some common rudiments and develop them into exciting drum beats. Not only that but the…