Techniques
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Technique: Will Taylor Drums and The Black Page Present an Xmas Drum Video
Dec 19 2013 // [Will Taylor]Hello and welcome to the Christmas edition of The Black Page. So all year we've been doing silly stupid...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Inverted Double Stroke
Dec 16 2013 // [Dan Slater]Inverted double strokes were not something I really worked on in my early days, I should have! They can...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Party-time Flams
Nov 14 2013 // [Will Taylor]Hello, Black Page readers! I hope all is well in your world of drums. This month we’re looking a short...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Kirby's Rudiments - The Waltz
Nov 14 2013 // [Kirby Jacobsen]Adding to my rudimental presentations, here is another personal fav entitled “Waltz.” This one has three...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Steve Gadd's Mozambique
Nov 14 2013 // [Murray Creed]Today I am going to be talking about a groove called the mozambique. The mozambique was made famous by...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Developing the Double Stroke Roll with Your Feet: Part II
Oct 03 2013 // [Libor Hadrava]As drummers, we usually don’t take practicing our feet as seriously as we should. Having said that I hope...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Basic Brushes
Oct 03 2013 // [Kirby Jacobsen]Brushes are fun to play and it’s a good idea to learn how to play them. You never know when you’ll need to...
Read The Full FeatureTechnique: Samba
Oct 03 2013 // [Murray Creed]The samba is one of the most popular music styles to have ever emerged from Brazil. The word itself has...
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