Drum Lessons

Linear Drumming Pattern

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

Buddy Rich Sixes

This is a six stroke pattern in triplets using the ride cymbal, snare and bass drum. You can play this pattern starting on any of the six notes.

Guitar Center Solo

Learning the R,L,R,F combination is key to playing this pattern.

Solo Groove

Try this on the practise pad first. Get comfortable with the right hand sticking as much of the bass drum pattern copies this.

Unison Fill

Practise moving from flams to unison and back again to improve accuracy. This example is mostly finger work.

Linear-Type Beat

Practise cross-handed sticking between splashes and cymbals.