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This is the Double Stroke Roll with the accent on the second stroke. Great if your trying to clean up your double stroke roll! ... read more...

Classic flashback warm up from the good ol days of marching band. This is a triplet based exercise with emphasis on the Moeller technique. I like this exercise because it has a good feel it and you can use it as a foundation to play some great tom patterns which you'll see in the next Chuggada Chuggada lesson. ... read more...

In an earlier lesson we saw Keith demonstrate practicing the double stroke roll by accent the 2nd note of each double stroke. In this section I use that same principal to play it as a drum fill between my hands and feet. Without the addition of accents 16th note fills can tend to get pretty boring so I hope this adds some variety to your playing. ... read more...

Introductory exercise for drummers to work on thier double strokes which is essential for producing a clean roll. There are many different variations of this exercise but just about every drumline you come across has played this more times than they've cared to. It's sounds identical to the infamous drum fill to "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins. ... read more...

One way to spice up your sextuplets around the kit is to start breaking them up between your hands and your feet. This lesson gives several examples of how to accomplish this by simply playing the first four strokes on your hands, and the last two on your feet. Once you can speed this up and start sweeping across the toms you can come up with some really impressive sounding stuff! Just remember to start SLOW and make your strokes consistent. ... read more...

A brief explanation of the 5 stroke roll. Most often heard in military cadences and various other marching parades, the five stroke roll is one of those rudiments you play without actually realizing you're playing it =) For some reason beginning drummers become intimidated by this rudiment because they feel they're roll sounds DIRTY. Just slow down and concentrate on the consistency of your DIDDLES and everything else will fall into place. ... read more...

This is an improvised tom pattern in 3/4 time. It is played between the hands and feet with the accent pattern following 123,12,123,12 on the hands and filling in the gaps by alternating between singles and doubles on the feet. Once again if confused....click play. ... read more...

The shuffle beat is like Kung- Fu, there are many styles. Here is Keith to perform one of the more famous versions called the half time shuffle. You may heard this groove already from Led Zepplin's "Fool in the Rain". A great exercise to focus on independance, especially once you move from the hi-hat to the ride cymbal. ... read more...

Danny Carey by far is one of my favorite drummers....period. I was inspired after listening to 46 and 2 to play more drum fills in odd times such as 7/4. Here is one I was came up with years ago while learning how to split my fills up between my hands and feet. So here is the Danny Carey Fill! ... read more...

Chuggada Chuggada Variation - Drum Lesson  This lesson is a variation of the previous exercises with a more advanced foot pattern.  ... read more...