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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…

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…

How to play Play That Funky Music on drums

How to play 'Play That Funky Music' on drums Learn how to play a classic funky Wild Cherry tune on drums. Play That Funky Music Here we will learn how to play 'Play That Funky Music' on drums. This is the full drum break down for Play that funky music by Wild Cherry. It features session player Ron Beitle on drums and has become a staple funk tune played at every party since it's release! As a drummer this is sort of a 'must know' tune because you will have to jam this out at some point inn your drumming…

From The Cradle Drum Grooves

From The Cradle Drum Grooves Learn how to play some classic Jim Keltner blues grooves on the Eric Clapton album This Is The From The Cradle Drum Grooves lesson Welcome to the From The Cradle drum grooves drum lesson. Here we break down a selection or Jim Keltner's drum beats on the Eric Clapton album 'From The Cradle'.From the cradle was a blues album released by Eric Clapton in 1994 which saw him covering a collection of classic blues songs that he loved in his formative years. It delved back into very authentic blues and gave it a modern sound.To…

When the Levee Breaks Drum Breakdown

When the Levee Breaks Drum Breakdown Learn how to play the whole of this John Bonham classic This Is The When the Levee Breaks Drum Breakdown Welcome to the When the Levee Breaks drum breakdown. Here we will learn how to play When the Levee Breaks on the drums.You are probably familiar with this song because it is a classic Led Zeppelin song and one of John Bonham's iconic drum beats.Much has been said about the amazing drum sound and how it was achieved at Headley Grange with the drums at the bottom of a stairwell and some help from…

Do They Know It’s Christmas Drum Breakdown

Do They Know It's Christmas Drum Breakdown Learn how to play Do They Know It's Christmas on the drums This Is The Do They Know It's Christmas Drum Breakdown Welcome to the Do They Know It's Christmas drum breakdown. Here we will learn how to play the drum parts for this Christmas classic.We're all very familiar with the well played Christmas song 'Do they know it's Christmas'. Penned by Bob Geldof and recorded at Sarm West studios in London in 1984, it was a charity project to raise funds to tackle famine in Africa. It was recorded by a troop…

How to play Cantaloupe Island on the drums

How to play Cantaloupe Island on the drums Learn how to play a classic Tony Williams drum part This Is The Cantaloupe Island Drum Lesson Welcome to the Cantaloupe Island drum lesson where we will learn how to play Cantaloupe Island on the drums.Cantaloupe Island was recorded for Herbie Hancock's 1964 album called Empyrean Isles. It featured Ron Carter on bass, Freddie Hubbard on cornet and Tony WIlliams on drums.It has became one of Herbie's best loved and most enduring tunes and the drum parts are well worth studying. So that's what we do here!This is delivered so that even…