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Groove Of The Week #14
Welcome to groove of the week #14, Let’s Rock! We’re back to basics this week, this is a great sounding groove with a driving quarter note pulse on hi-hat. Playing just quarter notes on the hi-hat leaves more space for the rest of the musicians to play and feels more angular and aggressive. It’s not…
Fill Of The Week #13
It’s time for fill of the week. Here’s lucky number 13: This fill was inspired by the drum fill intro to “You Could Be Mine” by Guns n’ Roses. The fills use the same first 6 notes, but the GnR fill is over 2 bars, I had to cram mine into 1 bar. I also…
Groove Of The Week #13
Here’s groove of the week #13, things are gonna get pretty tricky this week! This is one of those grooves that just kept evolving and growing, I kept finding more fun things to add to it. Let’s get to work on our 4-way co-ordination. Get The Groove First, let’s look at the basic groove. Here’s…
Fill Of The Week #12
Here’s Fill Of The Week #12: That’s a funky fill! There’s a lot going on. Lets get to it! Learn The Fill The first step to learning this fill is to get comfortable with the 16th note hi-hat barks. We’ll start by getting the arm movement correct between the snare and closed hi-hat. Next we’ll…
Groove Of The Week #12
Here’s groove of the week 12: Groove of the week #12 is a pretty funky 2 bar pattern featuring a 16th note bass drum, 16th note hi-hat embellishments and, those awesome sounding open hi-hats on beats 3 & 4 of the 2nd bar. This groove reminds me of pop-funk grooves that you hear from from…
Fill Of The Week #11
It’s time for fill of the week. Lets get to it: So we’re in eighth note triplet mode again, but we’re spicing things up by using a popular hybrid rudiment – the Herta. Let’s learn the fill. Learn The Fill The first step to learning this fill is playing 8th note triplets using a R…
Groove Of The Week #11
It’s that time of the week where we get groovy! Here’s groove of the week #11: Groove of the week #11 is brought to you by I’m The Only One by Melissa Etheridge, Dazed & Confused by Led Zeppelin, and, countless Blues Songs. Let’s get into it. Get The Groove This beat is based on…
Fill Of The Week #10
It’s fill of the week time. Here’s number 10: This is a simple accented 16th note fill that shows how accents can bring life to anything you play. Let’s learn it. Learn The Fill There is not a great deal to this fill. It’s 16th notes played on the snare drum and we’re accenting some…
Groove Of The Week #10
Here’s groove of the week #10. This week’s groove is a two handed 16th note groove and it’s basically the main groove from the Simple Minds’ song Alive & Kicking but with accents added to give it a little twist. Accents added in this manner can bring a groove to life and give it a…
Fill Of The Week #9
Here’s fill of the week #9 This is one of the those fills that sounds easy but needs careful practice to play precisely. There is a fill similar to this on Extreme’s Get The Funk Out. During the song it’s played while a horn section plays the same rhythm and it sounds huge. Let’s get…
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