• Fill Of The Week #29

    Eating fish regularly is good for your health. Playing buckets of fish on your drums is good for your drumming health. Here’s a another fill featuring the classic “bucket of fish” lick. We last saw the “Bucket of fish” lick in Fill Of The Week #17. I call this fill “The loud bucket of fish”…

  • Groove Of The Week #29

    This weeks groove is real smooth. Let’s check it out. Groove of the week #29 uses 16th note triplets (sextuplets) for the hi-hat ostinato. I’ve always loved the sound of 16th note triplets on the hi-hat – they create a very smooth backdrop. Check out “Angel Footsteps” by Jeff Beck or “Flaws” by Bastille to…

  • Fill Of The Week #28

    I call this fill “How to lose a band in 24 notes or less.” This is a fun fill to play but certainly isn’t applicable to every musical situation – use with extreme caution. We’ve done a few fills featuring 5 note groups before, the most recent one being fill of the week #26. Those…

  • Groove Of The Week #28

    Here’s a bit of linear fun with the week’s groove. The hi-hat firmly takes centre stage in this week’s groove. We’ve got some 32nd notes, some accents and a 6 stroke roll to get through. Let’s take a look at how the hi-hat can bring a groove to life. Get The Groove Let’s build this…

  • Fill Of The Week #27

    It’s fill of the week time, let’s get diddlin’. This fill of the week uses one of my favourite rudiments: the Paradiddle-diddle. Applying rudiments around the kit can help you to create things that you can’t play with just single strokes or to play your ideas in an easier, more relaxed manner. Let’s check out…

  • Groove Of The Week #27

    This is a journey into groove of the week #27… Have you heard this groove before? It’s more than likely, it’s been used in countless songs. The original groove was sampled from Ashley’s Roachclip by the Soul Searchers and has been used as the basis for many hip-hop songs. You might have heard in Paid…

  • Fill Of The Week #26

    It’s fill of the week time, let’s get to it. This week’s fill is another 5 note grouping fill. Once you find something you like with drums, it’s always good to explore how many ways you can play it. This helps to increase your drum kit vocabulary a lot. Our last 5 note grouping fill…

  • Groove Of The Week #26

    Let’s get groovy with paradiddles in groove of the week #26 Did you spot the paradiddles in this week’s groove? Instead of being played between the hands, they were played between the bass drum and the left hand. Let’s see if we can figure this one out! Get The Groove This groove is based around…

  • Fill Of The Week #25

    It’s time for fill of the week #25. Let’s hit it. This fill features flams, bass drums and one of my favourite stickings – RLLRLLRL. Often when I use the RLLRLLRL sticking in a 16th note fill, I put it at the start or end of fill – RLLRLLRLRLRLRLRL or RLRLRLRLRLLRLLRL. This week I decided…

  • Groove Of The Week #25

    It’s time to dust off those paradiddles – regular and inverted – and play groove of the week #25. Groove of the week #25 features 16th note paradiddles in the first half and 16th note inverted paradiddles in the second half. Throw in some hi-hat barks and you have a pretty challenging groove to play!…

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