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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…

Nine Eight Drum Beats

Nine Eight Drum Beats Learn how to play drum beats in the nine eight time signature This Is The Nine Eight Drum Beats Lesson Welcome to the nine eight drum beats drum lesson. Here we breakdown the mysterious time signature that is nine eight. It's actually not that mysterious at all.In previous lessons we looked at seven eight and spoke about it's relationship with four four. Four four has four quarter notes in a bar and, therefore, eight eighth notes. Seven eight has seven eighth notes which is just one less.Well nine eight is just as close to four four.…

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…