Drum Lessons


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Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Dani California' Intro


Chad Smith

Work on one-handed ruffs, bass drum double-strokes and, of course, timing and feel...
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Halftime Groove


Chad Smith

Work on the 16th patterns in bar 3 between hand and foot separately. Be careful to play the ghostnotes lightly.
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Toto - 'Africa' Drum Beat


Jeff Porcaro

Play the bass drum hits on beat 1 & 3 slightly louder to create more of a bossa nova/samba feel.
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Street Beatz 03


Jojo Mayer

Jojo starts the beat with pull-out accents on the snare hand. Start at a slow tempo and aim for accuracy and good dynamics.
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Kick Hat Snare 01


Kev O'Shea

First get comfortable with F,R,L,F,R,L,R,L (whilst accenting the last 'L'). There rest is a variation on a basic paradiddle.
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Unison Fill


Kev O'Shea

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