Total Drummer

Left Hand Control | Live Lesson

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Here we are developing your left hand control. If you are left handed then we are building your right hand control. Developing your weak hand is crucial for being a good drummer and these exercises will help you do that.

Shuffle Fills | Live Lesson Archive

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This live drum lesson breaks down shuffle fills. We take the blues shuffle and create some fun fills with interesting accents within them.

Samba Ostinato Snare Variations | Live Lesson Archive

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This drum lesson develops your samba playing and four limb independence. We work through several patterns using a samba ostinato and then we look at how you can develop those to use in musical situations.

Drum Dynamics In Songs | Live Lesson Archive

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Drum Dynamics In Songs. A good drummer knows how to use dynamics to play musical drum parts. Here we learn how to play a song on the drums. We use a drumless track to demonstrate how you can build excitement in a song by using dynamics on the drums.

Hi-hat Barks | Live Lesson Archive

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This live drum lesson tackles a funky technique sometimes called hi-hat barks. This allows us to make staccato accents, often in syncopated phrases within the bar.

Sexy Sextuplet Paradiddles

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Sexy Sextuplet Paradiddles. This is a really fun paradiddle drum fill with a twist because we dip a toe into implied metric modulation which might deceive the listener into thinking we've changed tempo.