For today’s lesson we’re going to look at a technique used to create an open and closed hi-hat effect by using your left foot only. Get ready for a left leg workout! Once you get this concept down, it’s a great way to spice up a groove. ... read more...

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 cha... read more...

Here's a lesson on the beginning concepts of dynamics on the kit with your hands. Hey everybody welcome back. Here we are we're back in the Drum Room. We're up and running officially now. I'm excited, Eric's excited, everybody's excited...so we're sitting around here thinking what's the first lesson we want to shot out here. We've went through, we set everything up, talked through getting some angles. Talked through tuning, that sort of thing. So I thought, you know what, it's real im... read more...