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Seven Eight Drum Beats

Seven Eight Drum Beats Learn how to play seven eight drum grooves This Is The Seven Eight Drum Beats Drum Lesson Welcome to the seven eight drum beats drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play drum beats in the seven eight time signature. These can seem scary at first but let's relate them to our comfortable four four time signature. In four four we have four quarter notes. If we split those in half we have eight eighth notes. We count them as: 1&2&3&4&. When we look at seven eight we have seven eighth notes in a bar.…

Five Four Drum Beats

Five Four Drum Beats Learn how to play drum grooves in the five four time signatureWelcome to the five four drum beats lesson. In this drum lesson we break down the five four time signature and learn a selection of drum beats.Five four can often seem mysterious and scary at first but it simply means that there are five quarter notes in a bar. That's just one more beat than our common four four time signature.Once we've established how to count this effectively we start to build it up into simple grooves. You can do this even if you've never…

Six Eight and Three Four Drum Lesson

Six Eight and Three Four Drum Lesson Learn how to play in three four and six eight time signatures This Is The Six Eight and Three Four Drum Lesson Welcome to the six eight and three four drum lesson. Here we will learn what the two time signatures are, what the difference is between them and how to play drum beats in both of them.Six eight and three four are mathematically the same but the phrasing is different. The cool thing is that once you fully understand their relationship you can dip between them to create some interesting polyrhythms.And in…

Drags In Beats and Fills

Drags In Beats and Fills Learn how to use the drag rudiment in musical scenarios This Is The Drags In Beats and Fills Drum Lesson Welcome to the drags in beats and fills drum lesson. The drag is one of the core rudiments and it has a very military style sound if we play it on the snare drum repeatedly.But the drag is such a useable rudiment in modern drumming styles on the drumkit. It can enhance all manner of drum beats and fills in many genres.So this drum lesson breaks down the drag. We discuss what it is and…

Paradiddle Exercises with Beats and Fills

Paradiddle Exercises with Beats and Fills Learn exercises to build your paradiddle performance and then how to use the paradiddle creatively. This Is The Paradiddle Exercises with Beats and Fills Drum Lesson Welcome to the paradiddle exercises with beats and fills drum lesson.The paradiddle may be one of the first rudiments we learn but there is so much you can do with it. In this drum lesson we will break down the fundamentals of technique and create a fun warm up plan that allows you to take the paradiddle to the next level.We will then move on to a more…

Double Stroke Roll Exercises

Double Stroke Roll Exercises Learn how to develop your double stroke rolls This Is The Double Stroke Roll Exercises Drum Lesson Here we will develop your hand technique, speed and accuracy in this double stroke roll drum lesson.The double stroke roll is one of the most basic rudiments for drummers to learn but it’s also the one of the most important in many respects. The only rudiment we use more than the double stroke roll is the single stroke roll. So this is a fundamental rudiment that you need to master!And yet many drummers ignore it because it seems easy.But…

Single Stroke Roll Exercises

Single Stroke Roll Exercises We develop your hand technique, speed and accuracy in this single stroke roll drum lesson This Is The Single Stroke Roll Exercises Drum Lesson Here we will develop your hand technique, speed and accuracy in this single stroke roll drum lesson.The single stroke roll is the most basic rudiment for drummers to learn but it's also the most important in many respects. We probably use this rudiment more than any other, whether we're playing simple drum fills or disco sixteen beats. The single stroke roll will be present in every drummers' playing.And yet many drummers ignore…

Jazz Drumming Call and Response

Jazz Drumming Call and Response Learn how to react within a jazz context This Is The Jazz Drumming Call and Response Lesson Welcome to the jazz drumming call and response lesson. Here we will learn how to react to what we here within a jazz context. When we learn techniques such as comping in jazz, we often learn them as written exercises that we repeat. But when you play jazz it is much more reactionary as you listen to you fellow bandmates and respond to what they are playing.So this drum lesson allows you to do that live as you…

Jazz Basics With Snare Comping

Jazz Basics With Snare Comping Learn how to play funk drums with this comprehensive funk drum course. This Is The Jazz Basics With Snare Comping Drum Lesson Welcome to this jazz basics with snare comping drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play jazz drums.We will start with the absolute basics so that you understand the foundation rhythm needed for a majority of jazz music. We will then develop your left hand comping exercises to give you freedom to be expressive.Jazz drumming requires a totally different approach to pop, rock and funk. For a start jazz is often swung…

Sextuplet Linear Grooves

Sextuplet Linear Grooves Learn how to play rudiment based linear grooves as sixteenth note triplets This Is The Sextuplet Linear Grooves Drum Lesson Welcome to the sextuplet linear grooves drum lesson. Here we will learn some really fun drum beats.When we use linear drumming we just play one thing at a time. So we create some really interesting beats that sound a little different. But we going a step further in this lesson because we are combining the linear approach with the sextuplet (or 16th note triplet) subdivision. And then we're twisting up some common rudiments.This is a fun approach…