Incorporating Percussion Into Your Drum Set

Teacher: Walfredo Reyes Jr Length: 7 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Musical Styles, Percussion, Secrets From the Pros

Walfredo will demonstrate how you can begin to add percussion into your drum set playing and add more depth and dimension to your sound.

Variations Using the Cascara

Teacher: Karl Perazzo Length: 6 min Category: Latin, Percussion, Secrets From the Pros

The legendary Karl Perazzo of Santana spent some time with us to demonstrate how you would play basic cascara patterns on the timbales In an Ensemble.

Essential Bell Patterns

Teacher: Karl Perazzo Length: 7 min Category: Latin, Percussion, Secrets From the Pros

The legendary Karl Perazzo of Santana spent some time with us to demonstrate some basic bell patterns and building upon the cascara lesson on the timbales.

Authentic Latin Jazz Pattern Pt. 1

Teacher: Raul Pineda Length: 8 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Latin, Secrets From the Pros

Raul Pineda is a Grammy winning virtuoso drummer who will blow your mind with his combination of technical proficiency and the authenticity of his sound.

Authentic Latin Jazz Pattern Pt. 2

Teacher: Raul Pineda Length: 9 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Latin, Secrets From the Pros

Raul Pineda demonstrates another Latin Jazz Pattern from his upcoming book. This Lesson helps open up your left hand to play in between the cascara and the bass drum pattern. 

Learn Authentic Afro-Cuban Patterns

Teacher: Raul Pineda Length: 9 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Latin, Musical Styles, Secrets From the Pros

Raul will blow your mind again with his Afro-Cuban pattern. With a hard week's worth of practice, you can get this down!

An Introduction To 12/8 Afro-Cuban Rhythms

Teacher: Adam Kuns Length: 28 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Latin, Live Rebroadcast, Vocabulary

In this Intermediate lesson, Adam demonstrates the 12/8 Afro-Cuban groove and variations of it.

The Importance of Cascara

Teacher: Jimmy Branly Length: 9 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Latin, Secrets From the Pros

In this lesson, Jimmy discusses the nuances of the cascara and why it is so important to the Afro-Cuban genre.

151 – Third Hand

Teacher: Enildo Rasua Length: 12 min Category: Hand Technique, Independence, Technique

Enildo talks about the third hand drumming and gives examples in 6/8 with 2 sticks in his right hand and conga in his left hand.