Libor Hadrava demonstrates how to play eighth-note triplets with your feet on top of sixteenth-note snare drum rudiments while counting in seven.
Think it’s hard to rub your belly and scratch your head? Try counting in five while playing various patterns with your hands and feet.
If you want to learn how to optimize your practice time, you won’t find anyone better to turn to for advice than Steve Smith.
In this lesson we count groups of three sixteenth-notes over several snare drum rudiments, while moving the bass drum around the three-note pattern.
Billy Martin invites you to play around with this dance-style waltz and make it your own.
It’s time to declare independence! Boston drum teacher Libor Hadrava kicks off his new video series on developing independence by covering the basics.
Billy Martin shows us how to add some flavor to our drumming in order to break up the academic monotony of the musical process.
Two disparate worlds come together in this drum lesson that fuses central African bell patterns to greasy 4/4 funk beats.
If you are a Wu-Tang Clan fan, you already know how they rule their own game by putting a creative slant on everything they do. I bow down to the rhythmic and comic genius they exude. RZA, beyond his rapping philosophy, is a great producer of music and beats. I’m not sure how many other people are involved with creating those fantastic cinematic break-beats, but my compliments to the chefs! A lot of the Wu-Tang grooves seems to almost trip over themselves adding another dimension to that already funky stuff.
Divine Heresy drummer Tim Yeung walks us through his pre-show warm-up, demonstrating techniques he uses both behind the kit and away from his drums to stretch and loosen hands, wrists, arms, and legs.
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