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.

Drum Solo Triplets

Blistering singles and doubles between the hands and feet in a triplet pattern.

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.

Quintuplets - Groups of 5

More information is covered in my book 'Filling Time'.

Kick Hat Snare 02

Practise paradiddles with and without accents. Next try starting them on the offbeat.

Playing Across The Bar Line

Use a metronome to keep the count while you experiment with playing over the bar line.