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Rhythmic Displacement – 8th notes

Rhythmic Displacement - 8th Notes Learn how to displace rhythms within eighth notes This Is The Rhythmic Displacement - 8th Notes Lesson Here we are looking at Rhythmic Displacement using 8th Notes. Being able to displace your rhythms within the eighth note framework really opens up some interesting creative doors for you.Drummers often get stuck in a rut playing the same old predictable rhythms and it is very common to sit within very obvious rhythmic phrasing. That is all well and good for a majority of musical scenarios but sometimes we want to create something a little more interesting.One great…

John Robinson Drum Grooves

John Robinson Drum Grooves Learn how to play some of JR's Best Drum Beats This Is The John Robinson Drum Grooves Lesson Welcome to the John Robinson drum grooves lesson. Here we will learn how to play some of JR's best drum grooves.If you think you haven't heard of the drummer John Robinson, you have definitely heard his work! As a session drummer he is one of the most recorded drummers of all time!He has played on huge hits for a massive array of artists including Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie and many, many more.In this drum lesson we…

Jeff Porcaro Drum Grooves

Jeff Porcaro Drum Grooves Learn how to play some classic Porcaro drum beats This Is The Jeff Porcaro Drum Lesson Welcome to the Jeff Porcaro drum grooves lesson. Here we will learn how to play some classic Porcaro drum beats. Jeff is one of the best loved session drummers of all time and there are so many of his drum parts that are worthy of studying. But in this lesson we focus on some key grooves from the 1980s. These includes beats for Toto, Randy Crawford and Eric Clapton. And yes it does include Rosanna! Scroll down to start the…

You Make It Feel Like Christmas Drum Lesson

You Make It Feel Like Christmas Drum Lesson Learn how to play a fun Christmas song on the drums This Is A Christmas Song Drum Lesson Welcome to the You Make It Feel Like Christmas drum lesson. Here we will learn a really fun song by Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton.It's quite an easy drum part with just two main beats, but it throws some fun challenges in there. The first thing to notice is that the rhythm is swung so it is based on the triplet subdivision.It also starts with a verse rhythm that is almost entirely played with…

You Make It Feel Like Christmas Drum Notation

You Make It Feel Like Christmas Drum Notation Learn how to play a great Christmas song on the drums This Is The You Make It Feel Like Christmas Drum Notation Welcome to the You Make It Feel Like Christmas Drum Notation. This is the full drum sheet music for a lovely, upbeat Christmas song by Gwen Stefani featuring Blake Shelton.You can learn the drum part precisely note for note here and there's some fun aspects to it. Overall it's quite simple with a lot of repetition. First you have to notice that it is swung. It also starts with the…

Black Hole Sun Drum Lesson

Black Hole Sun Drum Lesson Learn how to play this Soundgarden hit on drums This Is The Black Hole Sun Drum Lesson Welcome to the Black Hole Sun drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play a classic Soundgarden track on the drums. Written by Chris Cornell and released in 1994 on the 'Superunknown' album, Black Hole Sun was one of Soundgarden's biggest hits. Matt Cameron provides an amazing drum part which is filled with interesting groove variations and epic fills. It is all topped off with a beautifully syncopated drum beat in nine four time signature during the…

Dave Krusen Pearl Jam Drum Beats

Dave Krusen Pearl Jam Drum Beats Learn how to play some classic Pearl Jam drum beats This Is The Dave Krusen Pearl Jam Drum Beats Lesson Welcome to this Pearl Jam drum lesson. Here we will break down some classic Dave Krusen drum beats. Dave was the original drummer for Pearl Jam and the man behind the grooves on their huge 1991 debut album 'Ten'. Ten spawned songs such as Alive, Black, Even Flow, Why Go and Deep and helped bring the Grunge genre to the mainstream. There is some clever drumming that we look at i this lesson and…

Matt Cameron Soundgarden Drum Beats

Matt Cameron Soundgarden Drum Beats Learn how to play some classic Matt Cameron drum beats This Is The Matt Cameron Soundgarden Drum Beats Lesson Welcome to this Matt Cameron drum lesson where we will learn some of his classic drum beats. Matt was the drummer for Soundgarden when they released some exciting and groundbreaking material. In this drum lessons we focus on the Badmotorfinger album from 1991. We will break down songs such as: Jesus Christ pose Face Pollution Mind Riot Drawing Flies Fell On Black Days In amongst these songs Matt created interesting drum parts that utilised different time…

Dave Grohl Nirvana Drum Beats

Dave Grohl Nirvana Drum Beats Learn how to play some of Dave Grohl's best Nirvana drum beats This Is The Dave Grohl Nirvana Drum Beats Drum Lesson Welcome to the Dave Grohl Nirvana drum beats lesson. Here we will break down some of Dave Grohl's best drum beats from the Nirvana Nevermind album.Nevermind was Nirvana's second studio album and it was released in 1991. It was a huge success and propelled Nirvana into super stardom. And it also showed the world how good Dave Grohl was as a drummer.The album features many iconic Grohl drum beats and fills that still…

Nine Eight Drum Beats

Nine Eight Drum Beats Learn how to play drum beats in the nine eight time signature This Is The Nine Eight Drum Beats Lesson Welcome to the nine eight drum beats drum lesson. Here we breakdown the mysterious time signature that is nine eight. It's actually not that mysterious at all.In previous lessons we looked at seven eight and spoke about it's relationship with four four. Four four has four quarter notes in a bar and, therefore, eight eighth notes. Seven eight has seven eighth notes which is just one less.Well nine eight is just as close to four four.…