• Groove Of The Week #35

    Let’s get linear for groove of the week #35. Groove of the week 35 is a linear 16th note groove featuring the Toms. Let’s get to learning! Learn The Groove A linear groove is one where we don’t hit any drums or cymbals together. It’s just one drum or cymbal at the time. We’ve looked…

  • Fill Of The Week #34

    Get a brimful of this drum fill on your way to the corner shop. This drum fill is taken from the song Brimful Of Asha by Cornershop. The drum fill happens at around 3’33” and serves as a pickup to restart the song after a brief pause. Let’s learn it. Learn The Fill This is…

  • Groove Of The Week #34

    This week’s groove features a 6 stroke roll, a double paradiddle, and an inverted paradiddle. What more could you ask for? Groove of the week #34 is a funky syncopated 16th note groove. We’re using two rudiments which are normally found in 16th note triplet form, but we’re converting them to 16th notes. Both of…

  • Fill Of The Week #33

    Here’s fill of the week #33, don’t trip-let over it! Our friend the five note grouping makes it’s return for fill of the week #33. Last time we saw the five note grouping it was on fill of the week #28 where we used it in 16th note triplet form. This time we’re using it…

  • Groove Of The Week #33

    It’s time for groove of the week. Let’s get just a little linear. Groove of the week #33 includes two ways to vary your grooves. The first is interrupting the Hi-Hat flow, the second is adding in linear elements. Let’s get to it. Get The Groove Let’s start by looking at the basic groove we’ll…

  • Fill Of The Week #32

    It’s time to ring the bell on this week’s fill. Ding Ding Ding, Let’s Go! I thought it would be fun to try and incorporate the bell of the ride cymbal into a fill and, using a RRL sticking, this is what I arrived at. Learn The Fill Let’s look at the sticking pattern for…

  • Groove Of The Week #32

    How did we get to Groove Of The Week #32 without playing a Tom-Tom groove? Time to put that right! This groove was inspired by the one that Rikki Rockett plays during the introduction of the song “Unskinny Bop” by Poison. Tom-Tom grooves are fun to play and can add a lot of colour to…

  • Fill Of The Week #31

    Here’s a fill from the great Ginger Baker. This fill is Ginger Baker’s fill from the Cream song “White Room.” He uses variations of this fill throughout the verses of the song. When I first learnt this song I was in a rush, I had over 100 songs to learn in a short space of…

  • Groove Of The Week #31

    This week’s groove is from the late, great, Ginger Baker. Groove of the week #31 is based on the groove that Ginger Baker played on “Born Under A Bad Sign” by Cream. The song was a cover of Albert King’s original recorded just a year earlier; Ginger’s groove really makes the cover stand out from…

  • Fill Of The Week #30

    It’s time for fill of the week #30. I hope you practiced our Fill Of The Week #5 because this fill is a slightly evolved version of that one. Let’s get to learning. Learn The Fill The basis of this fill is alternating singles between the right hand and the bass drum. Let’s look at…

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