Drum Lessons: Rock - Page 3

Drummers Sharing Tips, Tricks and Knowledge on subjects such as Drum Tuning, Drum Rudiments, Paradiddles, Shuffles, Groove Ideas,
Drum Kit Dynamics, Drum Fills, Triplets, Drum Micing, Drum Recording, Changing Drum Heads and so much more.

Billy Ashbaugh: Opening Hi-Hat Grooves Pt.2

by billy ashbaugh on 04/06/2009 | 14,608 Views | 6 Comments

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This is a follow up to our Opening Hi-Hat Grooves Introduction Lesson. Here we're going to explore playing the kick drum underneath the hi-hat. We're also going to move to the ride and use our left hand on the open hi-hat as well.

Mike Johnston - Double Bass With One Foot

by ThatDrummerKid on 03/25/2009 | 14,602 Views | 3 Comments

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Mike Johnston shows a really cool way to play a double bass groove with one foot. It's basically built around a 32nd note double stroke roll between the kick and right hand(deepest floor tom), and when sped up, sounds really cool!

Billy Ashbaugh - Half Time & Double Time Grooves

by billy ashbaugh on 02/23/2009 | 15,565 Views | 2 Comments

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Here's our first look at Half Time and Double Time Grooves. In this lesson I'll demonstrate how these two grooves are really glued together with an 8th note pulse.   Hello again welcome back. Billy Ashbaugh, I'm here in the Drum Room and today we're going to talk about half time & double time grooves. Now when you're listening to music and it goes into a half time feel chances are it's going to create the illusion that it's almost slowing down. And likewise when it goes into a double time feel it can create the illusion that it's actually speeding up. This is not really happening though. What's going on is the quarter note stays rock solid through out this as the groove sort of shifts around. So before we can get inside of what's going on with half time & double time, let's look at the quarter note pulse. I like to give this analogy. Visualize cement posts OK, that's your quarter note pulse. They're rock... more...

Billy Ashbaugh: Opening Hi-Hat Groove Introduction

by billy ashbaugh on 02/18/2009 | 7,330 Views | 0 Comments

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Hope you enjoy this introduction to opening the hi-hat in a basic groove.   Hey everybody welcome back again. It's Billy Ashbaugh here at DrummerConnection.com. in the Drum Room. And I've got a lesson today for all you beginners out there, just getting started. What we're going to do is we're gonna kinda wake the left foot up and we're going to start opening the hi-hat in some grooves, some basic grooves. As easy as this sounds, I caution you to be patient because so far chances are your left foot has just hung out applying pressure keeping the two hi-hat cymbals together. Now we're going to get use to raising it and lowering it in time. And you'll see depending on where we open it and close it, the left foot is going to be moving up and down against the right foot and left hand so it can be kind of tricky. I want to start off with a basic groove and we'll try to open the hi-hat on the “&” of 4 and then close it again on one. So w... more...

"Sinister" Tom Pattern Groove

by King on 08/05/2008 | 16,274 Views | 5 Comments

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This pattern comes from the song Sinister written by Kevin Mears, Music by Gari Stine and myself formerly of the band Biogenic. I received a lot of compliments on this pattern so I figured I would shoot a brief explanation of how it's played. Have fun with it and see where it goes!

The Gallop Beat

by King on 08/04/2008 | 20,353 Views | 1 Comments

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Here is a catchy beat you tend to hear a lot in Punk Rock as well as other Rock music. When played it sounds similar to a horse gallop. No history as to who played it first but it has proved to be very popular throughout the years in many different styles of music.