Category: Tips for students
Drum Fill Of The Week #83
This week’s drum fill sees us take the inverted paradiddle out for spin around the kit. Watch Drum Fill Of The Week #83 on Instagram. The inverted paradiddle is easily one of my favourite rudiments; when accented and combined with other members of the paraddidle family it creates some great sticking patterns that can be…
Groove Of The Week #83
Let’s get groovy! Watch Groove Of The Week #83 on Instagram This week we’re adding a simple 16th note triplet flourish to a very common groove. The two 16th note triplets are played as ghost notes between beat 1 and the “&” of 1 and add a bit more texture to the groove. Get The…
Drum Fill Of The Week #82
Space: the final frontier and often sorely lacking in drum fills on instagram… but not this week! Watch drum fill of the week #82 on instagram This week’s drum fill is a simple one. But simple fills are often the most musical ones. Most memorable drum fills are simple. Everyone knows Jeff Pocaro’s drum fill…
Groove Of The Week #82
It’s Tom Tom Time! Watch Groove Of The Week #82 on Instagram This week’s groove sees us playing a simple foot ostinato while the right hand plays a tom pattern over top and the left hand keeps the back beat on 2 & 4. Get The Groove Let’s start by looking at the foot ostinato…
Drum Fill Of The Week #81
This week’s drum fill is a tried and trusted drum fill that works great when you’re rocking out! Simple, but effective. Watch Drum Fill Of The Week #81 on instagram This drum fill is what I’d call a partial groove fill. It keeps the 8th note flow going on the hi-hat until the “&” of…
Groove Of The Week #81
Let’s have fun with fives with this week’s groove. Watch Groove Of The Week #81 on Instagram. This week’s groove uses a five note group played between bass drum and hi-hat. We’re using the eighth note triplet subdivision in 4/4 for this week’s groove so we only have twelve notes per bar. That means we…
Drum Fill Of The Week #80
This week’s drum fill has a bit of an accent. Check it out! Watch drum fill of the week #80 on Instagram. This week’s drum fill takes a 16th note accent pattern and orchestrates it around the kit. The challenge here is to keep the snare drum notes nice and soft and to bring out…
Groove Of The Week #80
This week we’re going fast & getting trashy! Watch Groove Of The Week #80 on Instagram This week’s groove goes by at 200 bpm, that’s pretty quick! We’re playing a 4 bar pattern for the first time on this groove of the week. There are plenty of songs out there that use 4 bar patterns;…
Drum Fill Of The Week #79
It’s time for some fast tom fun. Watch drum fill of the week #79 on Instagram This week’s drum fill can be considered a back beat fill. That is, it keeps the snare drum on beats 2 & 4 happening during the drum fill. This is a very musical way of playing drum fills and…
Groove Of The Week #79
Seven is the magic number. Watch Groove Of The Week #79 on Instagram This week’s groove is built on a similar idea to groove of the week #77. Groove #77 was based on a repeating 5 note pattern played between the bass drum and hi-hat. Groove #79 is based on a 7 note pattern played…
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