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16 Beats With Added Funky Snare Hits

16 Beats With Added Funky Snare Hits Learn how to play seriously funky 16 beats This Is The 16 Beats With Added Funky Snare Hits Drum Lesson Welcome to a funky drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play 16 beats with added funky snare hits.There is nothing wrong with the humble old 16 beat that has been the main driving force in disco since the 1970s. But sometimes it's fun to embellish things and add a little extra funk to a groove. And that's exactly what we're doing in this drum lesson.We will use the snare drum to…

How To Make 16 Beats Sound Exciting

How To Make 16 Beats Sound Exciting Learn how to play 16 beats with a twistHere we will learn how to make 16 beats sound exciting. Sixteen beats are one of the most common drum grooves and we often learn them fairly early on in our drumming journey.They are often associated with disco but in the video lesson below you'll also see one of many rock examples. These beats are essential to learn and it's highly likely you have already learnt them in some form.But in this drum lesson we will go a step further and look at how to…

Paradiddle Feet With Groove On Top

Paradiddle Feet With Groove On Top. Learn how to use paradiddles with your feet This Is The Paradiddle Feet With Groove On Top Drum Lesson Welcome to this paradiddle drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play paradiddles with our feet and then add grooves over the top.Paradiddles are one of the most common rudiments but we usually play them with our hands. The feet tend to get an easy ride when it comes to rudiments. But when you look at drummers such as Thomas Lang you can see just how capable our feet are if we train them…

Changing Hi-hats To Lift A Song

Changing Hi-hats To Lift A Song Learn how to use the hi-hats to completely change the feel of a song Let's explore the power of the hi-hat! Welcome to this drum lesson where we will explore changing hi-hats to lift a song. The hi-hat is one the most expressive, yet overlooked, parts of the drum kit.There is so much we can do with it but often drummers simply resort to what they learnt first.....hammering 8th notes throughout the song.Sometimes that is exactly what the song needs and it works very effectively but on other occasions we can use the hi-hat…

Double Strokes Workout in Grooves and Fills

Double Strokes Workout in Grooves and Fills Learn how to use double stroke rolls in drum beats and fills This Is The Double Strokes Workout in Grooves and Fills Welcome to the double strokes workout in grooves and fills. Here we will learn how to use the double stroke to get very musical and creative.Double strokes can make our fills and grooves sound really exciting and hard even though they are just a basic rudiment.Often we learn these rudiments as boring old exercises that are very uninspiring. But they unlock so many creative doors for us drummers and this lesson…

Disco Hi-hat Accents

Disco Hi-hat Accents Learn how to play funky 16 beats This Is The Disco Hi-hat Accents Lesson Welcome to the disco hi-hat accents drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play funky 16 beats that sound awesome. 16 beats are commonly found in disco music but they appear in many genres outside of disco. Just think of Everlong by the Foo Fighters for one example.16 beats sound pretty cool in their basic form but we can add some spice to make them sound really interesting.This drum lesson looks at the classic disco 16 beat and takes it to the…

Paradiddles Between Right Hand And Right Foot

Paradiddles Between Right Hand And Right Foot Learn how to play fun rudiment drum beats using paradiddles This Is The Paradiddles Between Right Hand And Right Foot Drum Lesson Welcome to the paradiddles between right hand and right foot drum lesson.Here we are taking common paradiddle rudiments and playing them with different limbs. We then orchestrate them in different ways to create some fresh and interesting rudiment drum beats.these exercises will open up your possibilities with rudiments and show you new ways to apply them to music. And it is also a difficult four limb independence challenge as well!Scroll down…

Songo Grooves

Songo Grooves Learn how to play some fun Cuban inspired drum beats This Is The Songo Grooves Lesson Welcome to the songo grooves drum lesson. This drum lesson breaks down the Cuban Songo pattern and looks at some seriously tricky four limb independence within it.This drum rhythm type was created in Cuba in the 1970s and credited to the percussionist Changuito with the Los Van Van group.It is syncopated and that creates its own challenges but in this drum lesson we will break it down slow and simple.Once it is learnt we go to the next level and start adding…

How To Play 12 Bar Blues On Drums

How To Play 12 Bar Blues On Drums Learn how to play 12 bar blues on the drums. This Is The 12 Bar Blues Drum Lesson Welcome to the 12 bar blues drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play 12 bar blues on drums.Understanding this popular song form unlocks the code and allows us to sit in and jam with a huge majority of blues songs with ease. It allows us to understand where the music is going and therefore play fills in the correct places.In this blues drum lesson we will break down what is happening musically…

Heavy Metal Disco

Heavy Metal Disco Learn how to play some fun heavy metal disco drum beats This Is The Heavy Metal Disco Drum Lesson Welcome to the heavy metal disco drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play some really fun (and challenging) heavy metal disco drum beats.This live drum lesson teaches some cool Heavy Metal Disco beats which are secretly also difficult four limb independence challenges.Is heavy metal disco a real genre. Well no, not really. But maybe it should be. There are some funny heavy metal disco songs kicking around but there is not a lot that is serious.But…