Drum Notation

Quarter Notes

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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 Drum Notation

Eighth Notes

1.

2.

3.

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 Drum Notation

Sixteenth Notes

1.

2.

3.

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 Drum Notation

Eighth / Sixteenth Note Combinations I

1.

2.

3.

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 Drum Notation

Eighth / Sixteenth Note Combinations II

1.

2.

3.

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 Drum Notation

Rests

1.

2.

3.

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 Left Foot Hihat

Grooves - Quarter Notes

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 1 0.

11. 1 2.

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 Left Foot Hihat

Fills - Quarter Notes

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 1 0.

11. 1 2.

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 Left Foot Hihat

Grooves - Eighth Notes

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 1 0.

11. 1 2.

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 Left Foot Hihat

Fills - Eighth Notes

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 1 0.

11. 1 2.

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 Left Foot Hihat

Grooves - Off Beats

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 1 0.

11. 1 2.

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 Left Foot Hihat

Fills - Off Beats

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 1 0.

11. 1 2.

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 4-Way Coordination

Stickings - 8th Note Ostinato

1a

1b

1c

Stickings - Samba

2a

2b

2c

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 4-Way Coordination

Stickings - Baiao

3a

3b

3c

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 4-Way Coordination

Accents - 8th Note Ostinato

1a

1b

1c

1d

1e

1f

1g

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 4-Way Coordination

Accents - Samba

2a

2b

2c

2d

2e

2f

2g

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 4-Way Coordination

Accents - Baiao

3a

3b

3c

3d

3e

3f

3g

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 4-Way Coordination

Meters - 8th Note Ostinato

1a

1b

1c

1d

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 4-Way Coordination

Meters - Samba

2a

2b

2c

2d

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 4-Way Coordination

Meters - Baiao

3a

3b

3c

3d

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 40 Rudiments

Roll Rudiments

1. Single Stroke Roll 2. Single Stroke Four

3. Single Stroke Seven 4. Multiple Bounce Roll

5. Triple Stroke Roll 6. Double Stroke Roll

7. Five Stroke Roll 8. Six Stroke Roll

9. Seven Stroke Roll 10. Nine Stroke Roll

11. Ten Stroke Roll 12. Eleven Stroke Roll

13. Thirteen Stroke Roll 14. Fifteen Stroke Roll

15. Seventeen Stroke Roll

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 40 Rudiments

Paradiddle Rudiments

16. Single Paradiddle 17. Double Paradiddle

18. Triple Paradiddle 19. Paradiddle­Diddle

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 40 Rudiments

Flam Rudiments

20. Flam 21. Flam Accent

22. Flam Tap 23. Flamacue

24. Flam Paradiddle 25. Single Flammed Mill

26. Flam Paradiddle­Diddle 27. Pataflafla

28. Swiss Army Triplet 29. Inverted Flam Tap

30. Flam Drag

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 40 Rudiments

Drag Rudiments

31. Drag 32. Single Drag Tap

33. Double Drag Tap 34. Lesson 25

35. Single Dragadiddle 36. Drag Paradiddle #1

37. Drag Paradiddle #2 38. Single Ratamacue

39. Double Ratamacue 40. Triple Ratamacue

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 Build Your Internal Clock

One Bar Fills without Click

1a.

1b.

1c.

1d.

Two Bar Fills without Click

2a.

2b.

2c.

2d.

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 Paradiddles

Single Paradiddles - all Inversions and Combinations

1a RLRR LRLL 2a RRLR LLRL

b RLRR LLRL b RRLR LRLL
c RLRR LRLR c RRLR RLRL
d RLRR LRRL d RRLR LRRL

3a RLRL LRLR 4a RLLR LRRL

b RLRL LRLL b RLLR LRLL
c RLRL RRLR c RLLR LLRL
d RLRL RLLR d RLLR RLRL
e RLRL LRRL e RLLR LRLR

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 Paradiddles

Single Paradiddle and Inversions - Grooves

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Paradiddles

Single Paradiddle Combinations - Grooves

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 10.

11. 12.

13. 14.

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 Paradiddles

Single Paradiddle and Inversions - Fills

1.

2.

3.

4.

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Single Paradiddle Combinations - Fills

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 10.

11. 12.

13. 14.

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 Paradiddles

Double Paradiddle and Inversions - Grooves

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

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 Paradiddles

Double Paradiddle and Inversions - Fills

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

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 Paradiddles

Triple Paradiddle Grooves

1.

2.

Triple Paradiddle Fill

1.

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 Paradiddles

Paradiddle-Diddle Groove

1.

Paradiddle-Diddle Fill

1.

Six Stroke Roll Fill

1.

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 Bassdrum Technique

Double Strokes

1.

2.

3.

Multiple Strokes

4.

5.

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 Hihat Speed

Hihat Speed

1.

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 Flam Accent Madness

Flam Accent Orchestrations

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Flam Accent Madness

Displaced Flam Accent Orchestrations

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Flam Accent Madness

16th Note Flam Accent Orchestrations

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Flam Accent Madness

16th Note Flam Accent Variations

1.

2.

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The Moeller Technique I

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 The Moeller Technique I

The Different Strokes

1. Full Stroke
F

2. Down Stroke
D

3. Tap Stroke
T

4. Up Stroke
U

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 The Moeller Technique I

Four over Four Accent Patterns

1. 2.

D T U T D T U T D T U T D T U T T D T U T D T U T D T U T D T U
R L R L ... R L R L ...

3. 4.

U T D T U T D T U T D T U T D T T U T D T U T D T U T D T U T U
R L R L ... R L R L ...

Four over Four Accent Combination

6.
D T U T D T U T D T U T D T T U T D T U T D T U T D T U T D T T

U T D T U T D T U T D T U T D T T U T D T U T D T U T D T U U D

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 The Moeller Technique I

Up Stroke in the right Hand

1.

Up Stroke in the left Hand

2.

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 Beginner Grooves I

The Basic Groove

1.

Bass Drum Variations

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

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 Beginner Grooves I

Snare Drum Variations

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Beginner Grooves I

Combined Variations

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Beginner Grooves II

Practice Forms

1.

2.

3.

3.

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 Beginner Grooves II

Practice Forms with Fills

1.

2.

3.

3.

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 10 Easy Flam Fills

Isolated Flams

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 10 Easy Flam Fills

Groups of Four

5.

6.

7.

8.

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 10 Easy Flam Fills

Groups of Three and Five

9.

1 0.

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 Easy Paradiddle Fills

The 8th Note Base

Orchestrations

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Easy Paradiddle Fills

The 16th Note Base

Orchestrations

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Beginner Fill In

Herta Fill Ins

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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 16th Note Ride Patterns

The Patterns

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

Combination

7.

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 Two Handed 16th Grooves

The Basic Groove

R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L

Bass Drum Variations

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Two Handed 16th Grooves

Spice them Up

1.

2.

Combinations

3.

4.

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 Grooves with Crashes

Grooves with Crashes

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

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 Shuffled Tom Grooves

Shuffled Tom Grooves

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Bass Drum Exercise

Quarter Note Combinations

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 Bass Drum Exercise

One Kick per Quarter

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Bass Drum Exercise

Two Kicks per Quarter

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

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 Bass Drum Exercise

Three Kicks per Quarter

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Bass Drum Exercise

Four or No Kicks per Quarter

1.

2.

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 How to swing a Groove

How to swing a Groove

1a.

1b.

2a.

2b.

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 Bass Drum Polyrhythm

Bass Drum Polyrhythm

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 The Train Beat

The Train Beat

1.

2.

Train Beat Variations

3.

4.

5.

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 Flam Paradiddle Additional Explanation

Flam Paradiddle
In my Rudiment Video I just talk very briefly about the Flam Paradiddle and say that you
have "four consecutive taps to play". So what does this actually mean?
When we learn new Rudiments it is often a good idea to look at each hand individually to
understand what is really going on. Here is a Paradiddle and below it are notations of 'only
the right' and 'only the left hand'. So you can understand it's rhythm easily.

We can do the same thing with the Flam Paradiddle. And since the flam is nothing more
than a normal tap, we see that this Rudiment is not just a combination of singles and
doubles but has four consecutive 1 6th notes.
This is pretty rare, most Rudiments only have 2 or 3 consecutive 1 6th notes per hand.

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 Three Grooves with Toms

Groove 1

1.

Groove 2

2.

Groove 3

3.

4.

5.

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 3 Tom Grooves you need to know

Tom Groove 1

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 3 Tom Grooves you need to know

Tom Groove 2

1.

2.

Tom Groove 3

1.

2.

3.

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 The Half Time Shuffle

Straight vs. Shuffle

1.

2.

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 The Half Time Shuffle

Half Time Shuffle Variations

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

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 The Half Time Shuffle

Half Time Shuffle Variations with Ghost Notes

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

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 The Half Time Shuffle

The Rosanna Shuffle

1.

2.

3.

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 Ghost Note Control

longer strings of ghosts

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Ghost Note Control

Bass Drum Variations

1.

2.

3.

Snare Drum Variations

4.

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 Easy linear Fills

pattern combinations I

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 1 0.

11. 1 2.

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 Easy linear Fills

pattern combinations II

1 3. 1 4.

1 5. 1 6.

pattern combinations with crash

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Ghost Notes

The Grooves

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Ghost Notes

Ghost Note Pattern 1

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Ghost Notes

Ghost Note Pattern 2

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Ghost Notes

Ghost Note Pattern 3

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Ghost Notes

Ghost Note Pattern 1 and 2

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Ghost Notes

Ghost Note Pattern 1 and 3

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Ghost Notes

Ghost Note Pattern 2 and 3

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Ghost Notes

Ghost Note Pattern 1, 2 and 3

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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 Left Foot Clave in Pop Grooves

Left Foot Clave in Pop Grooves

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 You Can Learn Everything

You can Learn Everything

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

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 You Can Learn Everything

You can Learn Everything

7.

8.

9.

1 0.

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 Jost Nickel Groove

Jost Nickel Groove

1.

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 The Mambo

The Mambo

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Quintuplet Shuffle

Straight Groove

1.

Triplet Shuffle

2.

16th Note Shuffle

3.

Quintuplet Shuffle

4a.

4b.

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 Doubling Ghost Notes

One Ghost Note

1a

1b

Two Ghost Notes

2a

2b

2c

2d

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight

Four Piece Version

Groove after the Fill

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane

Four Piece Version

Groove after the Fill

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Groove after the Fill

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

Guns 'n Roses - Paradise City

Groove after the Fill

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Groove after the Fill

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

Toto - Rosanna

Four Piece Version

Groove after the Fill

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

ZZ Top - La Grange

Four Piece Version

Groove after the Fill

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

Jimmy Hendrix - Little Wing

Four Piece Version

Groove after the Fill

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

Green Day - Basket Case

Groove after the Fill

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 10 Legendary Drum Fills

Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger

Groove after the Fill

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 The most used Lick in Rock Drumming

The Lick

1.

2.

The Lick in a Groove

3.

4.

The Ian Paice Fill (Deep Purple)

5.

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 One Handed Fill

One Handed Fill

1.

2.

3.

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 Three 7/8 Grooves

Groove 1

1.

2.

3.

Groove 2

4.

5.

Groove 3

5.

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 3 Grooves to improve your Bass Drum Doubles

Groove 1

1.

2.

Groove 2

1.

2.

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 3 Grooves to improve your Bass Drum Doubles

Groove 3

1.

2.

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 The Double Stroke Sweep

The Double Stroke Sweep

1.

2.

3.

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 The Polyrhythm Formula

3 over 2

Take 2 notes

Divide each into 3

Play every 2nd

2 over 3

Take 3 notes

Divide each into 2

Play every 3rd

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 The Polyrhythm Formula

3 over 4

Take 4 notes

Divide each into 3

Play every 4th

4 over 3

Take 3 notes

Divide each into 4

Play every 3rd

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 The Polyrhythm Formula

3 over 2 / 2 over 3 in a Groove

4 over 3 / 3 over 4 in a Groove

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 Metronome Exercise

Groove Exercise

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Metronome Exercise

Fill-In Exercise

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 Fake Quintuplet Shuffle

4/4 Groove written both ways

1a.

1b.

5/4 Groove written both ways

2a.

2b.

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 Busy 32nd Note Groove

32nd Note Notation

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

16th Note Notation

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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 Hihat Lick - Ash Soan Style

Hihat Lick

1.

2.

3.

Hihat Lick (alternate notation)

4.

5.

6.

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 Metric Modulation

The Basics

1.

2.

3.

4.

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 Metric Modulation

Basic Groove

1.

Triplet Modulation

2a.

2b.

3.

Dotted 8th Note Modulation

4a.

4b.

5.

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 Flam Paradiddle

Mechanics of the Flam Paradiddle

1.

2.

3.

The Flam Paradiddle

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 3 Grooves to improve your Left Hand Doubles

Groove 1

1.

2.

3.

Groove 3

4.

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 Singles between Hands and Feet

Singles between Hands and Feet

1.

2.

3.

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 The Blushda

The Blushda

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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 The Blushda

The Blushda 2

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

2
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 Linear 32nd Lick

R-L-K-K Grooves

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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 R-L-R-R-K Licks

R-L-R-R-K Variations

1.

R L R R K L R L L K R L R R K L

2.

R L R R K L R L L K R L R R K L

3.

R L R R K L R L L K R L R R K L

4.

R L R R K L R L L K R L R R K L R L L K R L R R K L R L L K R L

5.

R L R R K L R L L K R L R R K L R L L K R L R R K L R L L K R L

6.

R L R R K L R L L K R L R R K L R L L K R L R R K L R L L K R L

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 R-L-R-R-K Licks

5 + 5 + 3 + 3 Lick

1.

R L R R K L R L L K R L K R L K

2.

R L R R K L R L L K R L K R L K

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 Linear 16th Groove

Linear 16th Groove

1.

R L K R L K R L K L R K L R

2. 3. 4.

L R R L R L R L

5.

R R L L K R L K R L K L R K L R

6.

R R L L K K R R L K R L K L R K L R

7.

R L K R L K R L K L R K L R

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