Techniques
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Technique: Accented Quintuplet or Fivelet Rolls
Last lesson Will showed us quintuplet or fivelet rolls. If you haven't seen that lesson yet, follow this...
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Murray Creed demonstrates the Single Accent Shift exercise that we can use to play a groove commonly known...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Chicken in a Fivelet Roll
Learn how to play fivelet rolls with this fun free drum lesson called Chicken in a Fivelet Roll....
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Rubber 16ths
Still adding to my rudimental presentations, here is a great one that requires both a whipping motion and...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Drumming Basics: Jazz Time Part 1
This is an absolute beginner jazz drum lesson starting with quarter notes on the ride cymbal in 4/4 time....
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Paradiddle Middle Diddle
Hey everybody, Murray Creed here from Groove Studios. Today we're going to be talking about the...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Kirby's Rudiments: Moving Rolls
Adding to my rudiments galore, here are two unusual kinds of rolls I call “Moving Rolls.” The first is an...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Kirby's Rudiments "Hey Hey"
The rudiments keep coming! Here are a pair of stick twisters, “Hey, Hey in 5” and “Hey, Hey in 7.” These...
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