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Independence Ostinato Challenge

Independence Ostinato Challenge

Independence Ostinato Challenge Develop your four limb independence This Is The Independence Ostinato Challenge Welcome to the Independence Ostinato Challenge.This is a replay of a live lesson where we will challenge your four limb independence. This is hard...but it's cool.As drummers we need to be able to use all four limbs. That's what makes us superior to every other musician! ;-) You know it's true.But we have to work really hard to build that independence on the drums.So this lesson is really useful to help you get to that level.This is hard but it's also paced so that any level…
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How To Play Song 2 On Drums | Blur

How To Play Song 2 On Drums | Blur

How to play Song 2 on Drums Learn how to play a classic Blur song on the drums. This Is The Song 2 Drum Beat Here we will learn how to play Song 2 on drums.This was one of Blur's biggest hits and it was released in 1997. It starts with a really cool drum beat from Dave Rowntree and that is what we're going to learn in this drum lesson.The song was apparently written in a super short space of time and you can believe it because it's very simple. But it captures an energy that just makes it…
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Drummer Ear Training

Drummer Ear Training

Drummer Ear Training Learn how to use your listening skills in a band This Is The Drummer Ear Training Lesson Welcome to the drummer ear training drum lesson.Using your ears is one of the most important skills as a musician. Often drummers get a bad reputation for just bashing away and not being musical. But if we train our ears to listen well whilst playing then we will be much more valuable musicians.This drum lesson teaches you how to listen whilst playing and how to train your musical ear. It is not difficult to do and it is actually a really…
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Speed Burst Drum Workout

Speed Burst Drum Workout

Speed Burst Drum Workout Develop your hand speed and technique with this drum lesson This Is The Speed Burst Drum Workout Welcome to the speed burst drum workout.This drum lesson will work you hard on your handd speed and technique. We will use speed bursts to push you to new levels of hand speed which you can apply to beats and fills.We will work through the exercises using singles, doubles and paradiddles.These exercises are actually taken from my book '52 Performance strategies for the advanced drummer' but we break them down in this lesson so you can perform them no…
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How To Play 100 Mile High City On Drums

How To Play 100 Mile High City On Drums

How To Play Hundred Mile High City On Drums This drum lesson breaks down a classic Ocean Colour Scene drum groove Learn How To Play 100 Mile High City On Drums Welcome to the this Ocean Colour Scene drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play Hundred Mile High City on drums.This is an awesome tune with Oscar Harrison on drums. It was released on the 1997 Marchin' Already album and also featured in Guy Ritchie's 'Lock stock and two smoking barrels' film.The track is in six eight time signature and Oscar plays a single stroke roll to give…
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Oasis Drum Beats

Oasis Drum Beats

Oasis Drum Beats Learn how to play Oasis songs on the drums This Is The Oasis Drum BeatsCourse Welcome to the Oasis drum beats course. Here we will learn how to play Oasis songs on the drums.Oasis were one of the biggest bands to come out of the 1990s Britpop era and they created a movement which imbued the 1990s in Britain.They began with Tony McCarroll on drums before switching to Alan White (brother of Paul Weller's drummer Steve White) for their second Album 'What's the story morning glory?'.In this Oasis drum beats course we break down grooves from both…
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Ocean Colour Scene Drum Beats

Ocean Colour Scene Drum Beats

Ocean Colour Scene Drum Beats Learn how to play Ocean Colour Scene songs on the drums This Is The Ocean Colour Scene Drum Beats Course Here we will learn how to play Ocean Colour Scene drum beats.Ocean Colour Scene were an amazing band that grew to prominence in the 1990s UK Britpop scene. Some of their best known songs were the Riverboat Song and 100 Mile High City, both of which are studied in this drum course.Oscar Harrison was responsible for the drumming and he created some really interesting grooves and fills that are loads of fun to learn and…
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Blur Drum Beats

Blur Drum Beats

Blur Drum Beats Learn how to play drums like Dave Rowntree This Is The Blur Drum Beats Course Welcome to the Blur drum beats course where we will learn how to play drums like Dave Rowntree.Blur were one of the big bands from the 1990s Britpop era. They were powered by Dave Rowntree on drums who created some iconic grooves, not least that of Song 2 which starts the song on its own and is instantly recognisable.But there are lots of other interesting drum grooves in Blur tracks so this course breaks some of the best beats down.Scroll down to…
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Britpop Drumming

Britpop Drumming

Britpop Drumming Course Learn how to play drums like Oasis, Blur and Ocean Colour Scene This Is The Britpop Drumming Course Here we will learn how to play Britpop drumming. This was a genre in Britain that was popular in the 1990s. Bands such as Blur, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene and Pulp brought a sense of Britishness by borrowing heavily on culture from 1960s Britain.We will study drummers such as Tony McCarroll,  Alan White, Dave Rowntree and Oscar Harrison.Each of these drummers and the bands they played with offered a very different approach to drumming and many of the drum…
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1930s Swing Drumming

1930s Swing Drumming

1930s Swing Drumming Learn how to play big band drumming This Is The 1930s Swing Drumming Course Here we will learn how to play 1930s swing drumming. This is such a cool style of drumming and I think this really benefits us as drummers no matter what genre we usually play.We will break down classic songs such as Sing, Sing, Sing with Gene Krupa on drums. But we'll also study different approaches to set up fills, band hits, reading charts and break down whole songs such as In the mood by Glen Miller and Let's dance by Benny Goodman.Scroll down…
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