Drum Lessons: Drum Groove Ideas - Page 20

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: 1/2 Time Shuffle

by billy ashbaugh on 03/16/2009 | 15,465 Views | 10 Comments

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Here's a closer look at some variations for the 1/2 Time Shuffle Groove.

Billy Ashbaugh: Odd Time 7/8

by billy ashbaugh on 03/16/2009 | 17,369 Views | 4 Comments

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Here's an introduction to counting and feeling an Odd Time Groove in 7/8. We're also going to explore changing some of your favorite 4/4 grooves to 7/8 time!!

Keith Thomas - 7 Stroke Groove

by ThatDrummerKid on 03/06/2009 | 13,603 Views | 3 Comments

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Here's Keith giving his very first lesson on his application of the 7 Stroke Roll to the kit.

Billy Ashbaugh - Standard Blues/Rock Shuffle

by billy ashbaugh on 02/23/2009 | 15,623 Views | 3 Comments

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This lesson is your introduction the Basic Blues/Rock Shuffle. Hello welcome back again to the Drum Room. This is Billy Ashbaugh with Drummer Connection.com and today we're going to look at our first shuffle groove. I love shuffles because they involve triplets and anything involving triplets can tend to be a little tricky, especially in the beginning. So as we look at this groove the first thing you have to understand is how to count and feel a steady flow of 8th note triplets. Typically we count those 1 triplet 2 triplet 3 triplet 4 triplet. Although there are several different ways, how you count it doesn't matter in my opinion, it's just how you phrase it and make it feel good. So I'm going to give you an example of a steady flow of 8th note triplets on the hi-hat. Now, for the shuffle groove what the hi-hat plays is what they call a shuffle pattern. What this does is take every single middle triplet and leave it out, leave it silent, which leaves the first and last triplet... more...

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: 32nd Note Funk Groove #1

by billy ashbaugh on 02/20/2009 | 8,124 Views | 2 Comments

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Here's our first look at playing 32nd notes between the snare & hi-hat in a groove setting....I love this stuff!! Hey everybody welcome back to the Drum Room. Billy Ashbaugh here, DrummerConnection.com. We're going to have some fun today. We're going to explore 32nd notes in a groove setting, primarily between the kick the snare & the hi-hat. We're going to look at the hands first. Now, this is some advanced stuff so you guys be patient right away. If you're just getting started with this I've got a little tip for you. Basically what we're going to do with these 32nd notes is combinations of singles & doubles, a lot like doing 5, 7 or 9 stroke rolls with some singles thrown in there. So there's a good little warm up exercise to sorta get use to this that you can do. You want to take and do doubles OK, just constant doubles with your right hand on the hi-hat and your left hand on the snare. What you want to do is practice applyi... more...

Billy Ashbaugh: Opening Hi-Hat Groove Introduction

by billy ashbaugh on 02/18/2009 | 7,336 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...

Billy Ashbaugh: Ghost Note Groove #1

by billy ashbaugh on 02/13/2009 | 8,391 Views | 5 Comments

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This is a little funk groove inspired years ago by Rod Morgenstein. I've incorporated a 5 stroke roll along with opening the hi-hat to help spice it up a bit.....enjoy!! Hello Billy Ashbaugh here with DrummerConnection.com and we're here in the Drum Room again. We just shot a lesson about dynamics and sort of getting use to rimshots and ghost notes, hi-hat, the tip of the stick, the bell of the ride, all these things. So I thought hey let me hit you guys with sort of a funk ghost note groove that Rod Morgenstein sort of exposed me to years ago on his 1st video...VHS at the time. At that time in my playing it really helped me out a lot. I did sort of a version of that I want to share with you. What he did that sort of inspired me was that he took straight 8th notes on the hi-hat with the right hand and did â€œeâ€'s and â€œaâ€'s filled in lightly, tapped as ghost notes with the left hand, keeping his hands there, and then came down for 2 & 4 on the snare... more...

Paul Thompson - Double Bass Groove

by billy ashbaugh on 02/09/2009 | 18,336 Views | 0 Comments

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Here's a great lesson where Paul breaks down the hand and foot patterns from his double bass groove. He also throws in a quick fill idea at the end!

Paul Thompson - Composite Meter

by billy ashbaugh on 02/09/2009 | 16,506 Views | 0 Comments

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For this lesson, Paul breaks down the counting system for an odd time groove in 11/8. He also demonstrates his use of the Single Stroke 4 as well as the 5 Stroke Roll.