Locking In With A Bass Player For The First Time

Teacher: Curt Bisquera Length: 55 min Category: Live Rebroadcast, Musicianship, Time Keeping

As a master of pocket and groove, Curt Bisquera (Tom Petty, Elton John) Shares how to adapt to playing with a bass player for the first time. 

Money Beat 1: Boom-Shmack

Teacher: Rich Redmond Length: 9 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Secrets From the Pros

From the #1 Country Drummer in DRUM! Magazine’s 2011 Reader’s Poll, Rich breaks down a simple beat using a variety of sound sources.

Four On The Floor

Teacher: Adam Kuns Length: 3 min Category: Vocabulary

This is a beat you can use in thousands of different settings and can really help drive a band. Learning this groove will not only make you a better musician, but will also get you more work.

Money Beat 2: The Heartbeat

Teacher: Rich Redmond Length: 6 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Secrets From the Pros

Using a classic beat with multiple feels, Rich Redmond breaks down how you would play it in an arena or in the studio.

Easy Ways To get Started Playing The Drums

Teacher: Al Velasquez Length: 38 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Independence, Live Rebroadcast, Vocabulary

This lesson focuses on basic concepts that beginning students can learn right away and demonstrates the natural progression of one idea to the next.

Money Beat 3: Four On The Floor

Teacher: Rich Redmond Length: 7 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Secrets From the Pros

Singing the pattern will bring the most basic patterns to life. Rich is one of Nashville’s first call drummers. In this lesson you will see why.

Master Your Backbeat, Triplet, Swing, Half-Time Feel.

Teacher: Zoro Length: 23 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Musical Styles, Vocabulary

Zoro (Lenny Kravitz) gives you five distinct feels to master with straight back beat, triplet feel, swing feel, half swing feel and 16th note feel.

3 Bar Warm Up Applied on the Kit

Teacher: Robert Brian Length: 14 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Rudiments, Secrets From the Pros

In this lesson, Robert demonstrates a quick 3 bar warmup that focuses on body motion.

Building Your Weak Hand Pt. 2

Teacher: Steve Goold Length: 8 min Category: Hand Technique, Secrets From the Pros

In This valuable lesson, Steve goes over a few exercises that help strengthen your weaker hand while working on your independence simultaneously.

Independence: Basic Rock Beat #2 Review

Teacher: Chad Smith Length: 14 min Category: Independence

In this lesson, we put everything together to play our first full beat.