Hello and welcome to the 14th Odd Groupings lesson. This time we have a fun bunch of exercises that will help free up your right hand.
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Basic Bembe Variations
Hello and welcome to a fun lesson on the Afro-Cuban Bembe bell pattern. We will be playing it in a more modern application. It is a great sounding pattern that will also help tighten up your right hand and right foot in this particular application.
Odd Groupings 13 – Using 5s To Help Your Independence – Part 2
Hello and welcome to the 13th Odd Groupings lesson. This time we will once again be taking a grouping of five and applying it through 16ths. This is a simple extension from the previous lesson so if you haven’t worked on that one yet, do so.
Odd Groupings 12 – Using 5s To Help Your Independence – Part 1
Hello and welcome to the 12th Odd Groupings lesson. This time we will be taking a grouping of five and applying it through 16ths. This really is an extension from Odd Groupings Part 3 so if you haven’t checked that out yet. I would do so first. This approach allows us to look at various permutations in one exercise and can be good fun as well.
Diving Into Some Subdivisions
In this lesson we are going to look at some of the less used subdivisions as well as the common ones to help us improve our timing and control on the instrument.
6-Stroke Roll Part 3
This time we are looking at how we could interpret a “standard” rhythm as a 6-stroke roll to create interesting fill patterns that have a really cool flow to them.
Odd Groupings 11 (5+7=12 part 3)
In the third and final (for now at least) 5+7=12 segment we are going to add in a couple of new fragments and work through a few fun fill options with them.
Pushing The One
In this lesson we will look at displacing “the one” when coming out of a fill and the effect that can have on the feel of a section.
Thrown For A Loop 2 – DJ Shadow/Preemptive Strike
Welcome to the second instalment of “Thrown For A Loop”. In this lesson we will be looking at a couple of DJ Shadow breaks. In my opinion, one of the best non-drumming drummers if that makes sense. He has also been a the front of sample based music with his 1996 album, “Endtroducing…..” famously being made up almost entirely of samples.
6 Stroke Roll Part 2
In the second instalment of the 6-stroke roll I just want to go over the two main feels. There is the more traditional variation and the more contemporary version. Another way of thinking about it is, the straight and the triplet based version. This is also a great way of warming up your hands with accents, singles and doubles and also changing subdivisions over a left foot pulse.