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There are lots of great drum parts and exercises for developing timing, precision,
single strokes, double strokes, subdivision, mixed stickings, odd time, odd groupings and use of the moeller system! Make sure you do all these with
a metronome
60 Second Lessons! The One Minute Drum Lesson!
Louie Bellson Lick! - From "Louie Rides Again"
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Quintuplets in Double Stroke Form
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Quintuplets in Double Stroke Form with a Funky Application
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Septuplets in Double Stroke Form
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Septuplets in Double Stroke Form with a Funky Application
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9 Stroke Ruff!
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9 Stroke Ruff, Part II
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U2, Larry Mullen, Jr., Sunday Bloody Sunday & Bullet The Blue Sky
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Alex Van Halen page
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Single Windmill
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Double Windmill
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Reverse Windmill
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Drag Triplet
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Flam Rolls
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Another Alan Dawson Rudiment. The legendary drum teacher, Alan Dawson, created several hybrid rudiments. Here is one: Flama-Flama-Flam Flam.
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Alan Dawson Rudiment. The legendary drum teacher, Alan Dawson, created several hybrid rudiments. Here is one: Flama-Flama-Diddle. A Double Paradiddle Sticking with some Flams!
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Neil Peart Fill Pattern. Neil's fill approach at the end of "Big Money" by Rush.
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Carter Beauford Fill Pattern. Carter was influenced by Billy Cobham.
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(1) Danny Seraphine - "Make Me Smile"
Dedicated to Anna, who got me more into Danny. In the 3rd bar of his drum solo in this Chicago classic, Danny plays a LLR pattern starting on the downbeat!
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NEW! - (1A) "Make Me Smile" SubReaction by Jeff Indyke
This is Jeff's First Counter-SubReaction to Dan's 60 Second Lessons! Jeff applies the idea in the 60 Second Lesson onto the Drumset in an expanded lesson! The Lessons is over 10 minutes long so it will take a little time to download but worth the wait!
Jeff Indyke Reacts!
Jeff Reacts Again!!
(2) Neil Peart - "Freewill"
During the instrumental part, mid-song, Neil lays down a mixed sticking 6/8 beat involving a double paradiddle.
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(2B) Neil Peart - "Camera Eye"
During the marching-like drum intro, Neil plays a familiar accent pattern
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(3) Butch Trucks - "Whipping Post"
In the classic Allman Brothers song, Butch Trucks lays down an 11/8 Groove!
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(4A) Alex Van Halen - "Hot for Teacher"
Part I - The famous blazing speed intro in the Van Halen song! It's at a Metronome Marking of over 250 Beats Per Minute!
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(4B) NEW! - Alex Van Halen - "Hot for Teacher"
Part II - The Double Bass Drum Shuffle enters, then a 3-beat phrase tom-tom pattern is repeated 6 times with the left hand. By the way, if you want to check out other double bass drum shuffles, Billy Cobham played one on Quadrant 4 in 1973 on the album Spectrum. Also, Simon Phillips played one on Space Boogie with Jeff Beck in 1980 on the album There and Back. Simon is not only playing a double bass shuffle at 256 beats per minute, but playing it in 7 - and with ghost notes!
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(4C) NEW! - Alex Van Halen - "Hot for Teacher"
Part III - The final 9 bars of the intro have a more spread out tom pattern
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(5) Steve Gadd - "Late in the Evening"
The is the hand pattern for the famous Steve Gadd Mozambique!!!
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Jeff Indyke Reacts to This!
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(6) "Oye Como Va"
A recording I played on: The band leads into the solo with a synchronistic, 4 measure crescendo, then the solo begins with a melodic cowbell left hand pattern, then goes into some fast doubles mixed with accents. The Hammond Organ solo is cued with a crescendo roll with a big smack on beat 4!!
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Various Exercises from Top Drummers
(1) Joe
Morello
In Morello's Classic Book Master Studies, Joe offers an excercise to
improve Timing. Start very slowly, playing each one for one bar; each measure
adds more notes! One per beat!
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an audio example at Metronome Marking = to 63 (which demonstrates the whole
sequence)
Quarter Notes
Quarter Note Triplets
8th Notes
Triplet
16th Notes
5's - Quintuplets
6's - Sextuplets
7's - Septuplets
8's - 32nd Notes
9's!
10's!
11's!
12's!
(2) Paradiddle-diddle
The paradiddle-diddle is one of the 40 Percussive Art Society Rudiments. It is an extension of the Paradiddle. When we apply this rudiment to more than one surface, there are so many creative applications!
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(3) Murray Spivak - Singles, Four to Sixteen
Murray Spivak was a leading drum teacher in L.A. With this exercise, you will develop your control & single stroke roll. Each measure you will add another stroke in the measure of 2/4. Set the tempo in the 50's and play four strokes in the first beat, then an accent on beat 2. Then try five strokes in beat one, then an accent on beat 2. Then 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 in the first beat, then the accent on beat 2!
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(4) Jim Chapin Hand Exercise (Mixed Stickings)
Here's one of Jim's exercises that you should eventually apply the Moeller system to. The Moeller system is a must to correctly play Jim's revolutionary book Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer. Also, the melodic exercises in this book are based on particular songs!
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(4B) Jim Chapin Hand Exercise (Triplet Form)
Here's another one of Jim's exercises that you should eventually apply the Moeller system to.
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(5) Flam Facility
Here's a series of exercises from Dom Famularo's book Its Your Move, the book that finally put the most effective hand techniques into explanatory text and pictures. This particular exercise is a rhythmical pyramid of flams!
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(6) Flams on Top & Inside
Triplets, 16ths and Quintuplets with Flams in the Front for one measure, then inside for the ensuing measure!!
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(7) Right Hand Flams
A measure of 16ths, then a measure of Quints with Right Hand Flams while the Left continuously vamps
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(8) Quintuplet Successions
Here are single stroke groupings of 5: Quintuplets. The accent hand will change each beat since we are dealing with odd groupings.
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(9) Two's Meet Quints and Septs!
Here are phrasings of 2's, 5's, 7's and more! Breakdown of the Solo to come!
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(10) Nonuplet Successions
Here are single stroke groupings of 9: Nonuplets. Once again, the accent hand will change each beat since we are dealing with odd groupings, but the switch will take place a little later than in the 7's!
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(11) Coming Soon! - Undecaplets! (Huh!?)
(12) Thomas Lang
Thomas demonstrates this in his excellent video Creative Control. This is alternating singles strokes in 32nd note form with a grouping of 9 in the final beat.
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(13) Mixed-up Four
Paradiddles plus Diddle-in-the-Middles
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(14) Mixed-up Six
This inverted six-stroke roll has some funky, half-time feel groove applications
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(15) A fun mixed sticking triplet pattern with accents!: RLL RLL RRL RRL
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(16) The Six Stroke Roll: RRLL R L
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(17) Flams on Doubles & Triples
Add Flams to the front of doubles and triples and come up with some good stuff!
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(18) Flying Triplet Accents
Take a funky duple feel and convert it to triplets!
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(19) 32nd Note Spurts
Take a common accent pattern -- and spice it up with 32nd notes! Note: Accents are on the 1, "a" of 1, "&" of 2, "e" of 3, and 4.
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Two more exercises to be added soon! Please e-mail any requests to Dan@DannyBritt.com!
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