Guided lessons
Guided lessons
Work through rudiments and grooves — each opens a tool ready to play.
Guided lessons
Work through rudiments and grooves — each opens a tool ready to play.
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Single stroke roll
Alternate R L R L evenly at 80 BPM in sixteenths.
Double stroke roll
Play R R L L — keep the doubles even at 80 BPM.
Complete Single stroke roll first
Paradiddle
R L R R · L R L L. Build it up from 90 BPM.
Complete Double stroke roll first
Triple stroke roll
Three strokes per hand: R R R L L L at 85 BPM.
Complete Double stroke roll first
Double paradiddle
R L R L R R · L R L R L L in a triplet feel.
Complete Paradiddle first
Flam
A soft grace note landing just before the main stroke.
Complete Single stroke roll first
Five stroke roll
R R L L R — then start the next one on the other hand.
Complete Double stroke roll first
Triplet feel
Feel three even notes per beat at 70 BPM.
Quarter notes
One steady note on every beat at 60 BPM.
Eighth notes
Two even notes per beat at 90 BPM.
Complete Quarter notes first
Sixteenth notes
Four even notes per beat at 80 BPM.
Complete Eighth notes first
Shuffle feel
A swung triplet pulse — long, short, long, short.
Complete Triplet feel first
Odd time: 7/8
Seven eighth-notes per bar — count them in groups.
Complete Eighth notes first
Basic rock beat
Kick, snare backbeat, and steady eighth-note hats.
Complete Eighth notes first
Four on the floor
Kick on every beat with offbeat open hats.
Complete Basic rock beat first
Tom groove
A ride groove with ghost-note snare and a tom answer.
Complete Basic rock beat first
Funk groove
Sixteenth-note hats, ghosted snare, syncopated kick.
Complete Sixteenth notes, Basic rock beat first
Half-time groove
A single backbeat on beat 3 for a wide, heavy feel.
Complete Basic rock beat first