Technique: The Outside Release Motion®

Teacher: Ralph Humphrey Length: 8 min Category: Technique

The outside release motion was developed by the legendary Sanford Moeller.  This is fundamental to efficient playing motion and creating stress notes.

Reading: Eighth Notes and Rests

Teacher: Joe Porcaro, Ralph Humphrey Length: 9 min Category: Reading

The most important part of this lesson is to learn the note values at sight. Test yourself by naming all the notes on page six of the download and fill in the worksheet test on page five.

C10 – Fills with Combined Rock Beats

Teacher: Chad Smith Length: 16 min Category: Free, General, Vocabulary

This is the last lesson in Chad Smith’s course, “Basic Rock Drumming Chad’s Way.” You should start with Lesson 1 if you are a beginner. All 10 lessons are included in your subscription.

Independence: Basic Rock Beat with Outside Release®

Teacher: Don Lombardi Length: 8 min Category: Independence

Technique: Down, Tap, Tap, Tap-up Stroke

Teacher: Ralph Humphrey Length: 6 min Category: Hand Technique, Technique

Now we will add one more tap stroke to complete our 4-stroke motion.  Staying relaxed and letting the stick bounce is paramount to executing this technique properly all the way through.

3 – Playing Rock Beat #1

Teacher: Chad Smith Length: 14 min Category: General, Vocabulary

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

C8 – Combining Rock Beat #1 & #3: Adding Crash Cymbals

Teacher: Chad Smith Length: 12 min Category: General, Vocabulary

Let's add some musicality and dynamics to these patterns using the crash cymbals.

4 – Playing Basic Rock Beat #1: With Ride Cymbal, Toms, and Hi Hat on 2 & 4

Teacher: Chad Smith Length: 14 min Category: General, Vocabulary

We are now going to add in the other drum set elements into this beat.

C7 – Reviewing Beats: Moving the Right Hand Around Drums

Teacher: Chad Smith Length: 12 min Category: General, Vocabulary

Let's take time to review the three beats we learned and practice them with different right hand variations.

Playing: Basic Rock Fills

Teacher: Adam Kuns Length: 9 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Vocabulary

In this lesson Adam Kuns shows us how we can build upon our rock beats and supplement our vocabulary with some fills that match the rock genre.