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  • Groove Of The Week #39

    It’s groove of the week time. Let’s get to it! Groove of the week #39 features a an interesting rhythm played between hi-hat, snare and the stack cymbal. This rhythm is often heard in drum fills and linear grooves, but this week we’re using it in a more regular groove. Get The Groove Let’s start…

  • Fill Of The Week #38

    Let’s learn how to lose a band in 28 notes or less. Fill of the week #38 uses a 7 note pattern, we’ve seen 7 note patterns in other fills; try fill of the week #35 for another example. In this fill, the 7 note pattern is played four times over 16th note triplets, which…

  • Groove Of The Week #38

    It’s time to get a little bit latin with groove of the week #38. This groove is taken from the classic early rock ‘n roll song La Bamba by Ritchie Valens. The song itself is a Mexican folk song, but Ritchie spiced it up and gave us the version we all know and love. Let’s…

  • Fill Of The Week #37

    Let’s flam our way through fill of the week #37. Fill of the week #37 features flams split across drums and some hand foot co-ordination that may be a little tricky. Let’s get learning! Learn The Fill Let’s start learning this fill by looking at what the hands are doing. Here’s the basic rhythm that…

  • Groove Of The Week #37

    Let’s spice up our hi-hats with groove of the week #37. Groove of the week #37 is a simple groove spiced up with some 32nd note hi-hats and some accents. Let’s get to it! Get The Groove Let’s start by taking a look at the basic groove that we’ll be spicing up. This is fairly…

  • Fill Of The Week #36

    It’s time to get groovy with fill of the week #36. Fill of the week is what I consider to be a groove fill. It mostly keeps the flow of the 8th note hi-hat going and focuses on the snare and bass drum & sounds like a variation on the groove. Let’s check it out!…

  • Groove Of The Week #36

    Let’s accent how awesome groove of the week #36 is: Groove of the week #36 shows how you can take a simple groove, and spice it up using accents. Let’s get to accenting. Get The Groove The groove that we’re spicing up with accents is a simple two handed 16th note groove with a sparse…

  • Fill Of The Week #35

    Here’s fill of the week #35: Fill of the week #35 was inspired by groove of the week #35. It features the same rhythm. After recording and writing about groove of the week #35, I noticed that the groove was essentially two blocks of seven 16th notes; One block started on beat 1, the second…

  • 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…

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