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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Grammys Fill (transcribed)
Aaron Spears
Break down the fill into parts. Work on the hand and foot combinations separately first, then put it together and gradually increase the tempo.
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Guitar Center Solo
Ilan Rubin
Learning the R,L,R,F combination is key to playing this pattern.
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Kick Hat Snare 04
Kev O'Shea
Practise the inverted single paradiddle: R,L,L,R,L,R,R,L with and without accents on the first beat of each 4 notes.
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Manky Beat
Kev O'Shea
A manky sounding linear pattern played open-handed between hihat, snare and floor tom.
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'50 Ways To Leave Your Lover' - Drum Intro
Steve Gadd
Practise linear patterns between hands and hihat pedal.
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