Fills Using Paradiddles With Your Hands and Feet

Teacher: Matt Halpern Length: 11 min Category: Fills, Rudiments, Secrets From the Pros

Matt shows extended sticking patterns on the pad and combines these patterns on the set, creating fills that sound great by using various hand/foot combinations.

The Texas Shuffle

Teacher: James Gadson, Tony Braunagel Length: 8 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Secrets From the Pros, Shuffle

Gadson demonstrates a simple and informative example of The Texas Shuffle, explaining backbeats and other variations of the popular groove.

Learn the Double Bass Shuffle

Teacher: Gregg Bissonette Length: 4 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Double Bass, Secrets From the Pros, Vocabulary

Gregg shows you one of his favorite double bass patterns leading with his left foot. Switch 2 is exercises for you to practice and switch 3 is the same exercises in slow motion.

Applying Syncopation To The Set

Teacher: Rich Redmond Length: 30 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Independence, Live Rebroadcast, Musical Styles, Musicianship, Reading

Rich covers syncopation while playing grooves and fills around the set. 

Learn How to Play Time Tastefully

Teacher: Derrick Wright Length: 9 min Category: Musicianship, Secrets From the Pros, Time Keeping

Derrick Wright (Adele) shows how he spices up grooves and his approach to ballads by demonstrating an Adele song he plays often.

Basic Soca Beat

Teacher: Adam Kuns Length: 4 min Category: Vocabulary

Today where diving into a fun groove from the Caribbean. The Soca is a dance groove with four on the floor and a syncopated back beat.

One of the Most Recorded Drummer’s of All Time Says, “Give Me a Funk Beat”

Teacher: JR Robinson Length: 4 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Secrets From the Pros

David as Gregg, Jr Robinson and Jimmy to get a Funk groove going. Listen for how each drummer interplays with each others groove. Together the pocket is incredible.

Independence: Basic Rock #4 with Bass Drum on 1, 3 AN

Teacher: Chad Smith Length: 17 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Independence

Let's learn a new beat now that applies the same concepts we learned in rock beat #1.

Learn Your First Rock Beat

Teacher: Chad Smith Length: 9 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Rock, Secrets From the Pros

This lesson is from Chad's course "Basic Rock Drumming Chads Way." Chad breaks down the foundation of a back beat and how to get the right sound.

The Jazz Ride Spang-Spang ‘a’ Lang

Teacher: Gregg Bissonette Length: 6 min Category: Beats / Grooves, Jazz, Secrets From the Pros

In this lesson, Gregg Bissonette breaks the traditional jazz ride pattern In various tempos and with different accents.