Category: Tips for students
Fill Of The Week #63
It’s paradiddle time! This week’s drum fill features the paradiddle – three of them to be precise. The last time we played with the paradiddle was on Fill Of The Week #39 when we played paradiddles around the kit with a right hand lead. This time, we’re leading with the left hand and using singles…
Groove Of The Week #63
Let’s get funky! This week’s groove takes a fairly common groove and just drops an unexpected snare in the middle to funk it up a bit. This is something that you might use occasionally when playing a groove to change it up a little. To hear a song where this is done constantly, have a…
Fill Of The Week #62
Here’s some fun with fives: This week’s fill sees us taking a 5 note grouping and spreading it across 16th notes and 16th note triplets to make a 19 note fill. This might not be something you incorporate into every song you play, but it’s a good mental workout. We’ve done work with fives before,…
Groove Of The Week #62
Here’s groove of the week #62: This week’s groove is a fairly sparse off-beat hi-hat groove, but to liven it up we’ve added a little bit of snare drum rim action. Using the rim of a drum to add a different colour to a groove has been done by many artists. For example, you’ll hear…
Fill Of The Week #61
Help Help Help! I’ve displaced my paradiddle-diddles! Displaced paradiddle-diddles. Yep. That’s a thing! For this drum fill we’re using a displaced paradiddle-diddle sticking. Instead of starting the paradiddle-diddle with 2 single strokes – the “para” – we’re starting it with the double strokes on the last diddle; The paradiddle-diddle is now a diddle-paradiddle. Some may…
Groove Of The Week #61
Simple. Syncopated. Speedy. This week’s groove is a syncopated beat with quarter notes on the hi-hat and an open hi-hat on beat one of every second bar. It’s going by pretty quick though at 180bpm. Are your offbeats accurate enough to keep up? Get The Groove There’s not a lot to this groove. There are…
Fill Of The Week #60
Give your drum fills a kick with some 16th note triplets. This week’s drum fill is a simple 16th note fill played between the hands and feet but on beat 3 we have a sixteenth note triplet twist. We did something similar on Fill Of The Week #13 with beat 4. Check that one out…
Groove Of The Week #60
This week we’re upgrading a favourite groove. Let’s take look: On the surface we’re playing a groove that most people learn in their first few months of playing. However, we’ve upgraded the ride pattern to include some 16th notes and the bell of the ride cymbal and we’re adding an offbeat pedalled hi-hat just for…
Fill Of The Week #59
What I’m about to tell you is highly classified: The cheat code for awesome drum fills is… uggh… I’ve been shot… This week’s drum fill revisits a sticking pattern that we’ve used on more than one occasion: RLL. There are tons of uses for this simple sticking pattern. We most recently used it on fill…
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…
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