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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…

How To Make 16 Beats Sound Exciting

How To Make 16 Beats Sound Exciting Learn how to play 16 beats with a twistHere we will learn how to make 16 beats sound exciting. Sixteen beats are one of the most common drum grooves and we often learn them fairly early on in our drumming journey.They are often associated with disco but in the video lesson below you'll also see one of many rock examples. These beats are essential to learn and it's highly likely you have already learnt them in some form.But in this drum lesson we will go a step further and look at how to…

Paradiddle Feet With Groove On Top

Paradiddle Feet With Groove On Top. Learn how to use paradiddles with your feet This Is The Paradiddle Feet With Groove On Top Drum Lesson Welcome to this paradiddle drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play paradiddles with our feet and then add grooves over the top.Paradiddles are one of the most common rudiments but we usually play them with our hands. The feet tend to get an easy ride when it comes to rudiments. But when you look at drummers such as Thomas Lang you can see just how capable our feet are if we train them…

Changing Hi-hats To Lift A Song

Changing Hi-hats To Lift A Song Learn how to use the hi-hats to completely change the feel of a song Let's explore the power of the hi-hat! Welcome to this drum lesson where we will explore changing hi-hats to lift a song. The hi-hat is one the most expressive, yet overlooked, parts of the drum kit.There is so much we can do with it but often drummers simply resort to what they learnt first.....hammering 8th notes throughout the song.Sometimes that is exactly what the song needs and it works very effectively but on other occasions we can use the hi-hat…

Double Strokes Workout in Grooves and Fills

Double Strokes Workout in Grooves and Fills Learn how to use double stroke rolls in drum beats and fills This Is The Double Strokes Workout in Grooves and Fills Welcome to the double strokes workout in grooves and fills. Here we will learn how to use the double stroke to get very musical and creative.Double strokes can make our fills and grooves sound really exciting and hard even though they are just a basic rudiment.Often we learn these rudiments as boring old exercises that are very uninspiring. But they unlock so many creative doors for us drummers and this lesson…

Disco Hi-hat Accents

Disco Hi-hat Accents Learn how to play funky 16 beats This Is The Disco Hi-hat Accents Lesson Welcome to the disco hi-hat accents drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play funky 16 beats that sound awesome. 16 beats are commonly found in disco music but they appear in many genres outside of disco. Just think of Everlong by the Foo Fighters for one example.16 beats sound pretty cool in their basic form but we can add some spice to make them sound really interesting.This drum lesson looks at the classic disco 16 beat and takes it to the…

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…

Question and Answer Training

Question and Answer Training Develop your listening skills on the drums This Is The Drummer Ear Training Lesson Welcome to the question and answer training for drummers. Here we will develop your listening skills on the drum kit.This is crucial ear training on the drum kit. This is an essential skill to help you become a musical drummer that listens to other musicians and knows how to respond.A drummer who is not listening does not respond to other musicians. This can lead to them playing with the wrong dynamics or even playing completely inappropriate drum parts. We want to be…

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'…

Songo Grooves

Songo Grooves Learn how to play some fun Cuban inspired drum beats This Is The Songo Grooves Lesson Welcome to the songo grooves drum lesson. This drum lesson breaks down the Cuban Songo pattern and looks at some seriously tricky four limb independence within it.This drum rhythm type was created in Cuba in the 1970s and credited to the percussionist Changuito with the Los Van Van group.It is syncopated and that creates its own challenges but in this drum lesson we will break it down slow and simple.Once it is learnt we go to the next level and start adding…