Developing Slide Technique and Three Note Strokes

Teacher: Thomas Pridgen Length: 5 min Category: Foot Technique, Practice Tips, Secrets From the Pros

Pridgen demonstrates the techniques he developed for playing three notes in a row as fast sixteenths or triplets, including an explanation of the slide technique.

Apply this Basic Gospel Fill

Teacher: Chris Kamrada Length: 5 min Category: Fills, Secrets From the Pros, Vocabulary

Chris breaks down a basic gospel pattern, giving examples of how it can be used as a fill and in a groove.

Experimenting With a Side Snare

Teacher: Javier Barrera Length: 14 min Category: General, Secrets From the Pros, Tuning

Javier discusses the reasons he has a side snare and how he uses it as a defining back beat plus using it for fills.

9 – Basic Drum Fills on Snare Drums and Toms

Teacher: Chad Smith Length: 20 min Category: General, Vocabulary

Let's learn some basic drum fills to go along with our drum beat variations.

Choreographing Your Rolls – Pt.2

Teacher: Bruce Becker Length: 24 min Category: Hand Technique, Live Rebroadcast, Rudiments, Vocabulary

This is Part 2 of Bruce Becker's lesson showing you how to use your technique to facilitate different roll tempos with your hands.

Using Paradiddles Musically

Teacher: Felix Lehrmann Length: 2 min Category: Musicianship, Rudiments, Secrets From the Pros

Felix Lehrmann will demonstrate ways in which paradiddles and paradiddle variations can be the appropriate choice of what to play.

Discovering Linear Fills And Drum Grooves

Teacher: Cobus Potgieter Length: 46 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Fills, Live Rebroadcast, Vocabulary

In this live lesson Cobus Potgieter breaks down one of his fills from the YouTube Band Project and addresses his most difficult challenges.

How Stick Grip Affects Your Sound and Style

Teacher: Thomas Pridgen Length: 8 min Category: Hand Technique, Secrets From the Pros

Pridgen discusses how holding the sticks can influence the style of your music.

Transposing Right Hand for Bass Drum

Teacher: Morgan Agren Length: 7 min Category: Foot Technique, Independence, Secrets From the Pros

Morgan shows a cool trick for practicing complicated patterns between the left hand and bass drum by first playing the bass drum part with the right hand.

Don’t Rush Your Fills

Teacher: Javier Barrera Length: 11 min Category: Fills, Secrets From the Pros, Time Keeping

It is very easy to rush the downbeat. Javier tells us how he had to practice breathing and laying back, an important lesson for all of us as time keepers.