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Duple Versus Triple Four Limb Groups

Duple Versus Triple Four Limb Groups Learn how to play four limb independence This Is The Duple Versus Triple Four Limb Groups Drum Lesson Welcome to the duple versus triple four limb groups drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play funk drums.This is a serious four limb independence drum challenge. Hand and foot independence is crucial for every drummer because we use all four limbs around the kit. This lesson will help you develop the skill.Full video instruction and PDF sheet music is included in this four limb independence lesson.We go slow so that even beginners can work…

How To Play 12 Bar Blues On Drums

How To Play 12 Bar Blues On Drums Learn how to play 12 bar blues on the drums. This Is The 12 Bar Blues Drum Lesson Welcome to the 12 bar blues drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play 12 bar blues on drums.Understanding this popular song form unlocks the code and allows us to sit in and jam with a huge majority of blues songs with ease. It allows us to understand where the music is going and therefore play fills in the correct places.In this blues drum lesson we will break down what is happening musically…

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…

Heavy Metal Disco

Heavy Metal Disco Learn how to play some fun heavy metal disco drum beats This Is The Heavy Metal Disco Drum Lesson Welcome to the heavy metal disco drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some really fun (and challenging) heavy metal disco drum beats.This live drum lesson teaches some cool Heavy Metal Disco beats which are secretly also difficult four limb independence challenges.Is heavy metal disco a real genre. Well no, not really. But maybe it should be. There are some funny heavy metal disco songs kicking around but there is not a lot that is serious.But…

Independence Drum Headache

Independence Drum Headache Learn how to play seriously hard four limb independence on the drums This Is The Independence Drum Headache Lesson Welcome to the independence drum headache drum lesson. This four limb independence drum lesson will mess your head up! Do you like that sort of thing?OK good....me too. Four limb independence is crucial for us drum kit players so exercises like this really equip us for all the challenges that we will come against as we learn new beats and fills.Scroll down to start the independence drum headache lesson. Click to access the lesson Click here Faster Hands in…

Afro Cuban Rock Grooves

Afro Cuban Rock Grooves Learn how to play a cool Afro Cuban rock drum beat. This Is The Afro Cuban Rock Grooves lesson Welcome to the Afro Cuban rock grooves drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play a really cool Afro Cuban drum beat.Don't worry if that sounds scary.....we will break it down so even a beginner can learn it. And it's really fun!Don't worry if you can't see when you will ever need to use an Afro Cuban rock groove. This drum lesson will show you how you can use them to spice up any genre.Watch the…

All I Want For Christmas – Mariah Carey – Drum Breakdown

All I Want For Christmas – Mariah Carey – Drum Breakdown Learn how to play this Christmas classic on the drums This Is The All I Want For Christmas – Mariah Carey – Drum Breakdown Welcome to this Christmas drum lesson where we will breakdown a Christmas classic.We are delving into All I want for Christmas by Mariah Carey. You know it? Of course you do.....you hear it several million times every December.It's essentially a rock shuffle at 50bpm so it moves along nicely. In this drum lesson we will break it down bar by bar so you fully understand…

Seven Eight Paradiddle Funk Drum Lesson

Seven Eight Paradiddle Funk Drum Lesson Learn how to play a cool paradiddle based odd time drum beat This Is The Seven Eight Paradiddle Funk Drum Lesson This seven eight paradiddle funk drum lesson sounds really complicated and exciting but when we break it down it's actually really easy. In fact I love taking rudiments and mixing them up to create longer, interesting patterns.We're simply going to combine two paradiddle rudiments to make something awesome. Here we are using the paradiddle and the paradiddlediddle. So first we'll break those down and orchestrate them around the drum kit.Next we will combine…

2 Awesome Bass Drum Fills That Are Easy To Play

2 Awesome Bass Drum Fills That Are Easy To Play Learn how to play two simple drum fills that sound really good. This Is 2 Awesome Bass Drum Fills That Are Easy To Play Drum Lesson Welcome to the funk drums course. Here we will learn how to play funk drums.Often we overlook the bass drum as an option when creating drum fills but it can really add an interesting sound to them.It can also force us to phrase things in more interesting ways so it opens lots of ideas for us.The two examples in the video below sound really…

Rudiment Conundrums

Rudiment Conundrums Learn how to play some fun rudiment based drum fills This Is The Rudiment Conundrums Drum Lesson Welcome to the rudiment conundrums drum lesson. Here we will learn how to use rudiments in interesting ways. This drum lesson uses common rudiments and mixes them into challenging phrases. Not only is it a great workout but each pattern can be used to create interesting drum fills. We start super slow on the snare drum and then look at how we can embellish these patterns and orchestrate them around the kit in interesting ways. We finish by looping them in…