Category: Tips for students
Drum Fill Of The Week #78
It’s 2021! Happy New Year! Here’s a fill featuring 21 notes. Enjoy! Watch drum fill of the week #78 on instagram This week’s drum fill crams 21 notes into a bar of 4/4 by using 16th note and 8th note triplets. For more fun with 16th note triplets check out drum fill of the week…
Groove Of The Week #78
Let’s get groovin’ Watch groove of the week #78 on instagram This week’s groove is a 2 bar pattern which uses ghost notes to spice up the groove. Let’s get to it. Get The Groove Let’s start by checking out the basic 2 bar groove that we’ll augment with ghost notes. Hopefully you can already…
Fill Of The Week #77
Drum Fill #77: Revenge of the 5 note group… Watch at your peril! Watch drum fill #77 on instagram This week’s drum fill uses our old friend, the 5 note grouping. We’ve done several fills with this pattern already, hopefully you’re getting good at it now! The last time we tried 5 note groups was…
Groove Of The Week #77
It’s time to get funky with a 5 note grouping. Watch Groove Of The Week #77 on Instagram We’ve played around a lot with 5 note groupings with the drum fill of the week posts, but we’ve never applied them to a groove… until now. Get The Groove This idea came to me on a…
Fill Of The Week #76
It’s drum fill of the week time! Watch drum fill of the week #76 on Instagram This week’s drum fill features one of my favourite set up fills and the always classy bucket of fish. Let’s get to it. Learn The Fill Let’s get started by looking at the first half of the drum fill.…
Groove Of The Week #76
Let’s do the splits! Watch Groove Of The Week #76 Instagram This week’s groove sees us splitting sixteenth notes between the ride cymbal and the hi-hat. This gives us a unique sounding ride pattern where the ride cymbal dominates but the hi-hat pokes through on the “e” and “ah”. We’re also doing a little bit…
Fill Of The Week #75
It’s time for a flamtastic drum fill! Watch drum fill of the week #75 on instagram The week’s drum fill features only two ingredients – Flams on the snare and the bass drum. Sounds simple enough, but the bass drum gets itself stuck in some tricky places. This one might cause more trouble than you’d…
Groove Of The Week #75
It’s time for the snare drum to take a stand. Watch Groove Of The Week #75 on Instagram This week’s groove is powerful! Featuring the snare drum pounding out quarter notes, the groove has an aggressive, energetic feel. This kind of groove has it’s roots motown music but it has applications in the rock world.…
Fill Of The Week #74
Get yer paradiddles out. It’s drum fill of the week #74! Watch fill of the week #74 on instagram. This week’s drum fill sees us combining the humble paradiddle with some single strokes to create a great sounding drum fill. This drum fill is great if you’re starting to work on incorporating paradiddles into your…
Groove Of The Week #74
This week we’re going off beat. Watch Groove Of The Week #74 on Instagram Groove of the week #74 shifts us totally away from playing the snare drum on the backbeat. Our first snare drum appears just a little early on the “ah” of 1 and the second snare drum turns up late on the…
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