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Five Great Rock Beats

Five Great Rock Beats Learn how to play some incredible rock drum beats This Is The Five Great Rock Beats Drum Lesson Welcome to the five great rock beats drum lesson. Drummers are always on the lookout for new drum beat ideas and often the best starting point is to study our favourite songs.And that’s exactly what we do in this drum lesson. We will break down some of the best rock drum beats from:Led ZeppelinNirvanaThe SurfarisAerosmithIn doing so we will study the approach to beats from Dave Grohl, John Bonham, Joey Kramer and Ron Wilson.That can’t be bad!Not only…

What Are The Three Levels of Funk Drumming?

What Are The Three Levels of Funk Drumming? Learn how to turn a rock beat into a funk beat This Is The Three Levels Of Funk Drumming This drum lesson answers that age old question pondered by academics since the dawn of time....What are the three levels of funk drumming?Funk is a genre that many drummers love because it is so focused on the groove, on the rhythm, and therefore on the drum beats.Most of us learn a basic rock drum beat when we start drumming. But with a few small steps that can take that humble rock beat and…

Quintuplet Drum Beats

Quintuplet Drum Beats Learn how to play quintuplet drum beats and fills This Is The Quintuplet Drum Beats Lesson Welcome to the quintuplet drum beats and fills lesson. Here we will learn how to play quintuplet drum beats. What the heck is a quintuplet beat you ask? Well let me start by saying that it is not the most common rhythm type. You definitely won't need this groove in a top 40 covers band! So these are definitely not essential grooves but they are a lot of fun and they are really interesting. So for me that's enough of a…

Using Buzz Rolls In Grooves

Using Buzz Rolls In Grooves Here we are breaking down the buzz roll and looking at how we can apply it to make our drum beats more interesting. Using Buzz Rolls In Grooves Welcome to this buzz roll drum lesson. Here we will learn how to start using buzz rolls in grooves.This is one of the fundamental drum techniques (sometimes also called a press roll) but many drummers overlook it and never really get the technique mastered. This is a big mistake because at some point in your drumming life you will need to play a buzz roll.In this drum…

RLKK Fill Ideas

RLKK Fill Ideas Learn how to play easy drum fills that sound awesome This Is The RLKK Fill Ideas Drum Lesson Welcome to the RLKK fill ideas drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some really cool drum fills. This drum lesson is suitable for beginners but will also give you some great ideas if you've been playing drum for a while.The approach we are using here is to create a fixed sticking pattern and then look at how we can use that in different creative ways. This is an effective way to easily learn lots of fill…

Right Limb Unsion Grooves

Right Limb Unison Grooves Learn how to play funk drum beats using paradiddle derived unison phrases This Is The Right Limb Unison Grooves Drum Lesson Welcome to the right limb unison grooves drum lesson. Here we will learn some very funky drum beats.Our brain loves the right limbs working together, and it loves the left limbs working together. So you'll be pleased to know that this drum lesson doesn't involve painful independence exercises.Instead we use the unison approach to create some really interesting patterns that work really well to create drum beats that sound very complex. But when we break…

Seven Eight Rudiments

Seven Eight Rudiments Learn how to use rudiments in odd time grooves This Is The Seven Eight Rudiments Drum Lesson Welcome to the seven eight rudiments drum lesson. Here we will learn how to use rudiments to create awesome drum beats.Rudiments are a fundamental part of our drumming vocabulary but they are not just boring old exercises that we do because our drum teacher says we should. They are the building blocks for so many drum beats and fills.So in this lesson we will take some common rudiments and develop them into exciting drum beats. Not only that but the…

Bass Drum Workout

Bass Drum Workout This drum lesson will test your bass drum speed and endurance This Is The Bass Drum Workout Welcome to the bass drum workout. Here we will learn some really fun beats that work that kick drum foot of yours. We break this down so you can follow along even if you're a beginner drummer.We will develop some drum grooves that you can use in real playing situations and that you will hear in some of your favourite songs. But these grooves are also designed to work your bass drum foot hard. And we will turn this into…

New Orleans-ey Funky Groove

New Orleans-ey Funky Groove Learn how to play a funky sort of New Orleans inspired drum beat This Is The New Orleans-ey Funky Groove Welcome to the New Orleans-ey funky groove drum lesson. I know it's a sightly rubbish name but it does describe what this is.It is a very funky groove that is New Orleans inspired but isn't strictly what you might call a New Orleans groove.In this drum lesson we break it down to the most basic level. That allows even beginners to learn a very complex drum beat. And once you learn this method you can break…

Paradiddlediddle Groove With Changing Bass Drums

Paradiddlediddle Groove With Changing Bass Drums Learn how to play some challenging rudiment based drum beats This Is The Paradiddlediddle Groove With Changing Bass Drums Lesson Welcome to this paradiddlediddle drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play this common rudiment as a funky groove and gain freedom with the right foot within that context.The paradidlediddle is a really useable rudiment both in drum beats and fills. Because it is a six note rudiment, it works very well for a sixteenth note triplet feel, or half time shuffle.In this drum lesson we use it in that exact way so…