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Seven Essential Drumming Audition Tips

Seven Essential Drumming Audition Tips Audition tips to help you hold your nerve I think you’ll agree with me when I say that auditions are pretty scary scenarios. No matter how much we prepare, we often go into that audition room and give an under par representation of what we can really do. I have my share of audition nightmares like most musicians but over time I developed some key strategies to help me perform at my best in this pressurised situation. In this article I want to share some of the key audition tips with you so you can…

Steve Gadd Style Shuffle

Steve Gadd Style Shuffle Drum Lesson Learn a Steve Gadd Style Shuffle Drum Beat This Is The Steve Gadd Shuffle Drum Beat Lesson Let's check out a Steve Gadd style shuffle drum beat because....well anything that Steve Gadd gives a magical twist to is worth investigating. If you're new to the world of shuffles then you might like to check out Blues Shuffle 101 Course which starts from the beginning and delves deep with various shuffle grooves and fills as well as a drumless playalong track. You could also grab this blues shuffle backing track so you have something to use to make…

Blues shuffle Drum Course 101

Blues shuffle Drum Course 101 Learn how to really plays shuffles with this blues shuffle drum courseThis is the blues shuffle drum course 101. It teaches you how to understand and count the blues shuffle by breaking it down developing the feel for this wide spread groove. Such a huge proportion of music is swung and yet so many drummers who grow up listening to rock and pop can only play in straight time. In fact, I remember performing as support for a blues artist who had recently disposed of a drummer that I had huge respect for having loved his playing with a very famous…

Seven Eight Drum Course 101

Seven Eight Drum Course 101 Learn how to play in seven eight time signature with this seven eight drum course This is the seven eight drum course 101. It teaches you how to understand and count in seven eight by breaking it down and showing that it's not weird, it's not scary, it just needs understanding. That's what I told my wife about me when we met and it seemed to work out! ;-) Once we have that understanding we will build a vocabulary of essential seven eight grooves as well as a series of fills. Armed with these you…

Blues Shuffle Drum Beat

Blues Shuffle Drum Beat Lesson Learn the Blues Shuffle Drum BeatHere we are looking at a blues shuffle drum beat. Now I've called it a blues shuffle because it is so prevalent in that style, but really every drummer in every style should know this drum beat because it appears in all styles. But it is the foundation of much of blues so it is most often seen in that style. Blues and jazz are often stuck together, such as blues and jazz festivals, and the two do have many links. Rhythmically they are both swung. That means they are…

Bossa Nova Drum Beat Lesson

Bossa Nova Drum Beat Lesson Learn the Brazilian Bossa Nova Drum Beat The bossa nova drum beat is awesome, it's fun, it's an essential groove for any drummer, and it's from Brazil! There are four great reasons to learn this pattern today. Now I know you might say, "Hey, I'm a metal drummer, there's is no way I will ever need a bossa nova drum beat." Well I hear you but you're wrong! Well you might not be, but in many cases this attitude is a bad one. One day you might stop being a total metaller and decide you…

Soca Calypso Drum Beat

Soca Calypso Drum Beat Lesson Learn the Caribbean Soca Calypso Drum Beat Here we're breaking down a Soca calypso drum beat. This is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean and in fact Soca is separate from Calypso although the two are very closely linked. In fact Soca has been described (by a Soca pioneer Lord Shorty - what a name!) as the SOul of CAlypso so you can see that Soca was born out of Calypso music. The rhythmic originas of a Soca Calypso drum beat are found in Africa, like much of the music in the…

Lights Out – Royal Blood – Drum Notation

Drum Transcription for Lights Out by Royal Blood Learn this Royal Blood classic Here is the full drum transcription for Lights Out by Royal Blood. This was the lead single from their 20017 album 'How did we get so dark?' Lights out got to number one in the UK charts Lights Out has that classic Royal Blood sound and is very typical of Ben Thatcher's drumming by knowing exactly when to play solid and simple to serve the song but then knowing when to throw in some tasty drum moments to lift the music. After the second Chorus Thatcher plays a great two bar fill…

Seven Eight Funk Drum Beat

Learn a seven eight funk drum beat Here's how to play a seven eight funk beat Here we are breaking down an awesome seven eight funk drum beat. It's so funky that it actually hurts. And what's more, this comes from a pretty crazy, and funky, seven eight drumless backing track that you can jam along with. But what I will tell you is that the beat is pretty complex and the track is pretty fast. Therefore it's a great target to aim for but for now you may want to shut that from your mind and learn this the right…

The Amen Break | Break Beat Drum Lesson

The Amen Break Drum Beat Learn the Amen Break - One of the most sampled grooves in history The Amen Break is a four bar passage of music from the song Amen Brother which was recorded as an instrumental track by The Winstons. It was released as a B-side to the track Color Him Father in 1969. But from this unsuspecting B-side arose a drum break which was to become one of the most sampled drum breaks in the history of recorded music. It was to become the foundation of a new genre of music. It was to have an impact that…