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Drum Warm Up | Drumming Advice

Drum Warm Up A Drum Warm Up Is Crucial A proper drum warm up is crucial. Many drummers prepare for their drumming performance with a pint of beer and a cigarette before they climb on stage and demonstrate a gruelling two hour set, exerting great physical effort and putting significant strain on their body. This might seem satisfactory for some more gentle styles of music but in general, playing the drum set is a very physical activity and to enable optimum performance, as well as playing longevity, it would be a good idea to fore-go alcoholic or nicotine nerve calmers…

Three Four Drumless Playalong

Three Four Drum Less Playalong An oddtime minus drums practice track This three four drumless backing track is a great opportunity to test your drum beats and fills in oddtime. Three four is one of the more common time signatures behind the standard four four so you will definitely need to play something in it soon. Mathematically it has the same value as six eight time signature but three four is phrased as three groups of two whereas six eight is felt as two groups of three. So in three four we count 1 & -2 &- 3 & and…

Drumless Backing Track Free

Drumless Backing Track A FREE drum practice drumless backing track A drumless backing track is the next thing to paying with real musicians. It gives you a chance to get creative with your newest grooves and fills and try to bring them into a cohesive flowing drum part. It allows you to take risks and try things before you air them in front of an audience. It allows you to explore ideas that you have thought of previously, or be spontaneous and get lost in the moment. That is why a drumless backing track is so important. But the best thing…

Drum Head History

Drum Head History A quick look at the history of our drum skins This is a small snippet looking at drum head history from my book: The Drum: A History Early Evidence The first drum head decomposed without a trace several thousand years ago. It is likely that it was a reptile or fish skin stretched over hollowed wood or even clay and may have been discovered by accident when drying a skin. A chance discovery of such a sound must surely have evoked great excitement and fascination, much as it still does today. Other skins were experimented with over…

Spicing up hi-hats in drum beats

Spicing up hi-hats in a drum groove This drum lesson video course explores spicing up hi-hats One of the best ways to bring excitement to a drum groove is by spicing up hi-hats. This is especially true in a live setting where the recorded drum pattern might be quite basic and we need to find a way to add some pizazz. But the important thing to consider here is that we don't want to add anything to the detriment of the groove. In a majority of songs if you were to alter the bass drums or snare drum backbeats then…

Most Important Drum Beat In The World

The Most Important Drum Beat In The World This free video drum lesson breaks down the most important drum beat you need to know The Most Important Drum Beat In The World might seem like a cheap attention grabbing title, and maybe it is, but I also stand by it confidently. I've been thinking about it for a while in this context and since it's been in my conscience with this video lesson in mind I have had to play this beat at EVERY single gig I've done. It is the only beat that I have had to play at…

Paradiddle drum fill with moving accents

Paradiddle Drum Fill With Moving Accents This free video drum lesson breaks down a paradiddle drum fill This free drum lesson breaks down a paradiddle drum fill which moves the accents to create an interesting phrasing within that standard rudimental pattern. So you probably know the paradiddle as a sticking pattern which consists of RlrrLrll. If you feel at a loss with rudiments, what they are, how to play them and how to use them then head over to the mini course page for lesson courses that develop your rudiment playing as well as application in musical settings. But assuming…

Badass Paradiddlediddle Drum Fill

Badass Paradiddlediddle Drum Fill This free video drum lesson breaks down a paradiddlediddle drum fill This Is The Badass Paradiddlediddle Drum Fill This free drum lesson breaks down a badass paradiddlediddle drum fill so you can learn it and use it in your playing. The paradiddlediddle is a very popular drum rudiment and really it's an extension of an even more popular rudiment..........the standard paradiddle.So you probably know the paradiddle as a sticking pattern which consists of RlrrLrll. If you feel at a loss with rudiments, what they are, how to play them and how to use them then head over…

Black Hole Sun Drum Breakdown

Black Hole Sun Drum Breakdown Here we dissect Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun Drum Part Below is a drum lesson that breaks down the Black Hole Sun drum part for the bridge section on this Soundgarden classic track. Matt Cameron is at his best on drums here navigating a sneakily difficult section of music with creative brilliance and ease. It was tragic that Chris Cornell recently passed away but his legacy is great and it inspires to revisit some of those great tracks that his distinctive rock vocals were on. And with Matt Cameron laying it down solidly behind him, Soundgarden…

Faster Hands in 7 Days – Free Drum Course to Improve Hand Speed

Faster Hands in 7 Days FREE Drum Course Improve your drum hand speed in a week to get Faster HandsWe all want faster hands on the drums but so many drummers I see are missing the basic aspects of drumming that will take them to the next level. Many of those drummers are not lazy. In fact it's the opposite. They are putting in the work but they are missing the fundamental techniques that will allow them to play faster and smoother. This leads to inevitable frustration and despondency. In effect they are wasting their time! By clicking below you…