Groove Of The Week #59
Drums: Do you still love me? Me: Yes, I’m still into you. This groove is borrowed from the song “Still Into You” by Paramore. It occurs for 8 bars during the bridge of the song, but it’s not really audible on studio versions of the song, but if you check out the live versions you’ll…
Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor
Here’s my drum cover of Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor This is one of the world’s best known songs and it sounds relatively easy to play drums to, and for the most part it is. However, like a lot of songs, once you get into the details, there are little things in there that…
Fill Of The Week #58
Stop dragging around, start practicing this fill. This week’s fill uses drags to augment what is a fairly basic fill. Drags are a great way to enliven a fill and make them sound busier than they are. You can also open up the drags so they sound like 16th note triplets or 32nd notes. Figure…
Groove Of The Week #58
Things are about to get weird…. Groove of the week #58 starts out with a straight forward, rock solid, triplet groove but then at the end we add a touch of weirdness by playing 8th notes on the bass drum instead following the triplet subdivision. Back on Groove Of The Week #16 we did this…
Fill Of The Week #57
Don’t blink, you’ll miss this week’s drum fill! This week’s drum fill is a fast one. It’s at 90bpm, which isn’t the fastest tempo, but it’s using 32nd notes. We’re using flurries of 3 notes to create this fast and furious drum fill. We’ve done similar 32nd note drum fills before, check out fill of…
Groove Of The Week #57
Pssh… Groove Of The Week: This week we take a rock solid groove and add a little hi-hat sound effect and a paradiddle lick to take it to the next level. Get The Groove Let’s take a look at the basic groove that we’re going to build this beat on. Hopefully, you can play this…
Fill Of The Week #56
Right, Left, Left, Repeat. This week’s fill is a based on a three sixteenth note sticking – Right Left Left. Some of the most famous and popular fills are based on groups of the three sixteenth notes. Check out fill of the week #42 for another fill based on a group of three 16th notes.…
Groove Of The Week #56
It’s funky bass drum time! This week’s groove features a busy sixteenth note bass drum pattern and some 8th note hi-hat openings. Can you handle the footwork on this groove? Get The Groove Busy sixteenth note bass drum patterns can be challenging on their own, add in some open hi-hat work and you have recipe…
Fill Of The Week #55
Return Of The Five… This week’s fill, number 55, is a built on a 5 note group. This is a concept we’ve explored here before. Check out fill of the week #45 for a five note grouping fill in 7/8. Fills #14, #23, #26, #28 & #33 also use fives – follow the trail from…
Groove Of The Week #55
Bass in the hole….. This week’s groove is a two bar shuffle pattern. Shuffles can be quite challenging; obtaining a consistent, confident swing feel takes time. This groove challenges the shuffle further by placing the bass drum on the middle note of the triplet. If you’re playing blues or rock, you’re probably not going to…
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