Drum Lessons


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Linear Drumming Pattern


Aaron Spears

A good warm up exercise. Focus on clean strokes with good time at lower tempos. Accents can be alternated between hand and foot.
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Rudimental Warm Up


Gavin Harrison

Use fingers to help with the left hand triple strokes. Use bounce for the quick ruffs.
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Deep Purple - 'Fireball' Drum Intro


Ian Paice

Get the double bass pattern down first. You can play this with a slight swing to give the right feel.
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Street Beatz 01


Jojo Mayer

Practice linear patterns between snare, hihat and kick in 4/4. RLF, LRF etc.
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Quintuplets - Groups of 5


Kev O'Shea

More information is covered in my book 'Filling Time'.
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Alternating Linear Fill


Kev O'Shea

Play the linear pattern without accents. Next accent every third note, alternating between hand and foot. Switch hands.
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