Hello, drum world! I hope all is well. This lesson is based around one of my favorite hybrid rudiments, “the cheese”. I just think it’s one of the coolest sounding rudiments around. I suggest starting this slowly as the sticking pattern is a bit nuts. If you’re struggling with the doubles on the cheeses take…
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DAWN OF THE DOUBLES: DOUBLE STROKES FROM HELL PART I
This exercise is something I love, accented double stroke. Now I don’t double with accents like a group of five-stroke rolls. I mean everything is doubles and you have to accent the doubles (if you look at the manuscript below it’ll make a bit more sense!) Now this exercise requires us to really stretch our…
DOUBLES TO TRIPLES
Hello again! I trust all is well in the land of drums. This exercise is nothing new but I feel it’s a valuable one. Double and triple strokes are something of an obsession of mine. There’s nothing like a perfectly executed roll with the sound and precision of a machine gun! Start this exercise slowly. We’re…
WARMING UP AND THE 90 DEGREE BOUNCE
The importance of warming up cannot be overstressed. I always warm up at the start of my practice ritual. Without dedicating several minutes to warming up, your hands and arms will be tightening up in no time. A warm-up routine helps to increase elasticity of the muscles in your arms and hands. It warms muscles,…
ACCENTED QUINTUPLET OR FIVELET ROLLS
In a past lesson I showed you quintuplet or fivelet rolls. If you haven’t seen that lesson yet, follow this link > Chicken In a Fivlet Roll. We will continue with a quintuplet roll drum lesson by adding accents. Will Taylor is an author, educator and session musician based in London, UK. Find him online…
CHICKEN IN A FIVELET ROLL
This is a great way to learn how to play fivelet rolls based on the classic Chicken in a Roll exercise. If you haven’t seen that lesson yet, follow this link > Chicken in a Roll. Will Taylor is an author, educator and session musician based in London, UK. Find him online at willtaylordrums.co.uk. SUBSCRIBE TO…
CHICKEN IN A ROLL
Hello again! This is a classic drumcorp/marching band exercise, Chicken in a Roll. This is a great exercise for working on your single to double stroke rolls. It’s a basic roll using 8th to 16th notes and the sticking is laid out below the exercise. I’ve played the exercise using four tempos. Below is a guide to…
POLY-RUDIMENTS
This lesson is actually a warm up I do before a show, but it can also be a very effective practice routine during those days where you know you won’t get a ton of time to practice and still want to feel like you challenged yourself in some way. I am calling this routine poly-rudiments,…
BASIC BRUSHES
Brushes are fun to play and it’s a good idea to learn how to play them. You never know when you’ll need to dredge ‘em out of your stick bag. They’re fun to play and give you a whole different feel when drumming. The first thing you should remember is that you can use each…
ACCENT TO PARADIDDLE
This exercise is focusing on accent to taps to accented paradiddles. It’s a simple 1/8– 1/16 note piece, but we are using odd groupings of 5,7, and 9 and then filling in the gaps with single paradiddles and then double paradiddles. For those who don’t know, a single paradiddle is RLRR or LRLL and a double is…
8TH NOTES MAKE THE GROOVE GO ROUND
If this exercise appears to be something you’d learn in your first drum lesson, that’s because it is. It’s a simple three-bar exercise that is repeated. The main point I want to get across is, as simple as it seems it’s actually quite hard to play well with a relaxed grip, good technique and precision. …
ACCENT TO PARADIDDLE
Hello, I hope all is well in the world of drums. This exercise is focusing on accent to taps to accented paradiddles. It’s a simple 1/8– 1/16 note piece, but we are using odd groupings of 5,7, and 9 and then filling in the gaps with single paradiddles and then double paradiddles. For those who don’t know,…
3 AND 6
Hello, I hope all is well in shred land. This week’s lesson is a nice, little, short one but I think it’s still pretty fun. We’re once again shedding our double paradiddles (something of an obsession of mine, if you hadn’t realized). I’ll make this short and sweet, it’s a really simple exercise, 8th notes to…
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