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Paradiddle Drum Beat With A Twist

Paradiddle Drum Beat With A Twist Learn how to play a messed up paradiddle drum beat This Is The Paradiddle Drum Beat With A Twist Lesson Welcome to the paradiddle drum beat with a twist drum challenge. This drum lesson will mess your head up and hopefully inspire you simultaneously. If it does one of those then I'm happy.We will take the humble standard paradiddle and turn it into a drum beat. This is pretty normal behaviour and creates a very useable, funky drum groove.But then we are going to displace it to create something weird and wonderful. This is…

8th Note Triplet Fills

8th Note Triplet Fills. Learn how to play 8th note triplet drum fills This Is The 8th Note Triplet Fills Lesson Welcome to this 8th note triplet fills drum lesson. Here we will develop your triplet drum fills. Drummers often start playing straight eighth and sixteenth notes in fills. Triplets can seem a bit mysterious.But they are an essential subdivision to master and once you get comfortable with them you can play freely in swung music as well as using triplets in straight music to create an interesting effect.This lesson will help you develop your confidence and ability with triplet…

Easy Tribal Drum Beat That Sounds Awesome

Easy Tribal Drum Beat That Sounds Awesome Learn how to play a powerful tom tom drum beat This Is The Easy Tribal Drum Beat That Sounds Awesome Welcome to the easy tribal drum beat that sounds awesome. Right at the start of the video you'll hear how cool this drum beat sounds. It has that raw tribal energy that never fails to please.We create that effect by making heavy use of the tom toms. This instantly creates a powerful, moody sound. And it allows us to use both hands across the kit to give complexity to the groove from the…

16th Note Subdivision Drum Fills

16th Note Subdivision Drum Fills Learn how to play difficult sounding drum fills that are easy to learn This Is The 16th Note Subdivision Drum Fills Welcome to this drum lesson where we will learn how to play 16th note subdivision drum fills.16th notes are one of the most used subdivisions in fills but a lot of drummers play very predictable phrasing within the 16th note framework. But there are so many options to get creative and play amazing sounding drum fills that are actually really easy to play.This drum lesson focuses on how we can develop those more interesting…

When You Can’t Play Your Own Drum Beat

When You Can’t Play Your Own Drum Beat Learn how to play a really cool drum beat When You Can’t Play Your Own Drum Beat Welcome to this drum lesson. Do you know that feeling when you can't play your own drum beat? It happens to most of us at some point.This is a tricky little drum beat that I came up with spontaneously and then couldn't figure out how to play it a second time! Have you ever done that?Eventually I broke it down and got my head around it so here is the breakdown for you. You can…

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…

What Can Drummers Learn From P!nk & Miley Cyrus?

What Can Drummers Learn From P!nk & Miley Cyrus? We are checking out a fun rhythmic trick used in some big songs What Can Drummers Learn From P!nk & Miley Cyrus? Wait, what? A drummer website talking about P!nk & Miley Cyrus? Can this be t rue? YES! In this drum lesson we check out a fun little rhythmic technique that appears in Pink's ' 'Never Gonna Not Dance Again', Miley Cyrus' 'Flowers' and Theo Katzman's 'Be The The Wheel'. They are all at it and we should understand what it is. We also check out a similar musical device…

Tom Drum Grooves

Tom Drum Grooves Learn how to play powerful tribal tom tom drum beats This Is The Tom Drum Grooves Lesson Welcome to the tom tom drum grooves. Here we will learn how to play some very powerful drum beats.Drummers often think of the toms as nice ornamentation when playing drum fills. We move around them as fast as we can and then get back to the drum beat.But the toms are the most melodic part of the drum kit. Some drummers even tune them to specific notes. And we can utilise that melodic aspect to create some amazing drum beats.Just…

Drum Practice Planner Journal

Drum Practice Planner Journal This can transform your drum practice This Is The Drum Practice Planner Journal Welcome to the drum practice journal. This drum book is a great tool to help you progress on the drumkit.Of course there are always new fangled digital options but sometimes old skool is the best. And for me nothing beats being able to make notes as text or notation, chart your progress, track your goals to keep you very focussed.This allows you to maximise your progress at the drum kit. Doing this means that even drummers with limited practice time can make more…

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…