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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.
Here's Keith giving his very first lesson on his application of the 7 Stroke Roll to the kit.
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...
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...
This is a fill idea that I came up with years ago. It involves groups of 7 (4 with your hands & 3 with your feet) phrased around the kit....enjoy!! Hello Billy Ashbaugh here with DrummerConnection.com. Today I want to share with you a fill. It's a fill I sort of created myself. I'm sure it's been done before but I sort of taught myself many, many years ago. Basically what it does is it squeezes 7 notes for every quarter note. I break it up 4 with the hands and 3 with the feet. We'll look at the hands first. For me, the sticking is just RLRL. What I like to do when I practice this is I'll bring the left hand up to either mounted tom and I like to move the right hand from the snare over to the floor tom and back just doing those little 4 note clusters. OK, we've got the hands covered, now let's look at the feet. For those last 3 notes I choose to go RRL with my feet. I'll be honest I was inspired years ago by Gregg Bissonette. He had a video out an... more...
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...
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...
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 important even if you're just beginning or picking up the sticks and getting into the drum set. I want to talk about dynamics. Some of this stuff may be a little hard to get a hold of in the beginning but just put it in the back of your mind and you more seasoned guys just sort of revisit this stuff and check this out. As drummers we spend the majority of our time (hand wise, we're going to discuss hands here dynamic wise first...we'll get to the kic... more...
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 “eâ€'s and “aâ€'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...
Hello Billy Ashbaugh here with DrummerConnection.com and today I'm going to share a fill with you. This is a fill that I've showed a lot of students over the years and a lot of them really seem to gravitate toward it and like it a lot, so I'm going to break it down and show you what it is. Basically, it starts with a flam one beat one with the right hand on the floor tom and the left hand on the snare. Now this fill is phrased in 16th notes, so the flam is the downbeat and you're going to play the “1 e &” figure, meaning the first three 16th notes. Now here again I want you to experiment with the sticking, it's up to you. You can either go Flam Left Right. Or you can go Flam Right Left. OK, I'm gonna let you here this thing in a fill setting. OK, here's another version for you. Keep the hands just like you have them. Remember we played the first three 16th notes, the “1 e &”. We left the “a” silent. A version you could come up with... more...
Here Paul breaks down the Paradiddle and shows how he applies it around the kit. [tc=:30] Paradiddle Description [tc=:40] Demo on snare [tc=1:05] Demo/solo on kit
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