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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…

Afro Cuban Rock Grooves

Afro Cuban Rock Grooves Learn how to play a cool Afro Cuban rock drum beat. This Is The Afro Cuban Rock Grooves lesson Welcome to the Afro Cuban rock grooves drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play a really cool Afro Cuban drum beat.Don't worry if that sounds scary.....we will break it down so even a beginner can learn it. And it's really fun!Don't worry if you can't see when you will ever need to use an Afro Cuban rock groove. This drum lesson will show you how you can use them to spice up any genre.Watch the…

Seven Eight Paradiddle Funk Drum Lesson

Seven Eight Paradiddle Funk Drum Lesson Learn how to play a cool paradiddle based odd time drum beat This Is The Seven Eight Paradiddle Funk Drum Lesson This seven eight paradiddle funk drum lesson sounds really complicated and exciting but when we break it down it's actually really easy. In fact I love taking rudiments and mixing them up to create longer, interesting patterns.We're simply going to combine two paradiddle rudiments to make something awesome. Here we are using the paradiddle and the paradiddlediddle. So first we'll break those down and orchestrate them around the drum kit.Next we will combine…

Bass Drums In Fills

Bass Drums In Fills Learn how to use the bass drum to create awesome sounding drum fills This Is The Bass Drums In Fills Lesson Welcome to the bass drums in fills lesson. This drum lesson breaks down how we can use bass drums in fills. These sound really cool and complex but are actually easy.Drummers often overlook bass drums when they create fills but they can really enhance the sound and create very interesting effects.We will break these fills down very slowly and play them together so you understand exactly how to play them. We will then look at…

Rudiment Groove Menu

Rudiment Groove Menu Learn how to use rudiment phrase blocks to create exciting drum rhythms This Is The Rudiment Groove Menu Drum Lesson Welcome to the rudiment groove menu drum lesson. Here we will learn how to use rudiment phrases to create interesting rhythms.Rudiments are sometimes considered as boring by some drummers but that's because they haven't learnt how to use them creatively. Great command of various rudiments really does unlock your creativity.In this drum lesson we will learn short phrases using core rudiments. These phrases will make up the rhythmic building blocks that we need to fuse together to…

Mozambique Drum Beats

Mozambique Drum Beats Learn how to play a cool Mozambique inspired drum beat This Is The Mozambique Drum Beats Lesson Welcome to the Mozambique drum beats lesson. Here we will learn how to play a very cool Mozambique drum beat.This type of drum pattern is often mistaken to have originated in Mozambique, which is understandable because it's spelt the same. But really this is a Cuban rhythm.In this drum lesson we will learn a Mozambique style groove adapted for standard drum kit. This is hard but we break it down one limb at a time. You can play it along…

Shuffle Fills

Shuffle Fills Learn how to play drum fills with shuffle beats This Is The Shuffle Fills Lesson Welcome to the shuffle fills lesson. Here we will learn how to play drum fills with shuffle grooves.A lot of drummers are very comfortable playing straight 8th note drum beats but they are not used to swinging their grooves. But so much of music is swung that we need to be comfortable in both feels. And swung music goes far beyond just jazz and blues.Swung music is based on triplets but in the shuffle drum beat we miss the middle note in a…

Samba Ostinato Snare Variations

Samba Ostinato Snare Variations Learn how to play a samba ostinato on the drums This Is The Samba Ostinato Snare Variations Lesson Welcome to the Samba ostinato snare variations drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play a Samba ostinato using three of our limbs.We will then break down several left hand patterns to play over the top of it. Once you have nailed those it unlocks the door to start getting musical within this framework and eventually you can improvise in this samba feel.When we play these Latin American styles on the drum kit, we are essentially taking…