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Schnalle Method: Dropping In Doubles

Wally Schnalle gives us some licks he's been having fun with lately to practice. They're based in sextuplets with some commonly used stickings.

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Tom Brechtlein: Groovin’ The Fill

You don’t have to rely only on rolls to play a fill. In this lesson we look at altering your groove to create fills on your full kit.

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Peter Erskine: Brazilian Basics For Drum Set

If you’ve always wanted to play Brazilian rhythms with authenticity but haven’t known where to start, Peter Erskine has a few choice ideas for you.

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Schnalle Method: Ride Pattern Possibilities

Wally Schnalle helps us find the right groove pattern for our ride cymbals — something that only another fellow drummer can convey.

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Tom Brechtlein: Balancing Act

These examples are some exercises in balance and control on the kit between your upper and lower body parts.

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The Schnalle Method: Funky Synchronizations

For a groove to get somebody’s head bobbin’ it needs to be played in focus with solid, steady time, with all limbs synchronized.

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Tom Brechtlein: It’s Your Thing

Here are three different examples of how I thought David Garibaldi played “Oakland Stroke” (from Back To Oakland by Tower of Power).

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Tom Brechtlein: Slushy Hat Tricks

These examples may seem hard to play at first, but just take them slowly and they’ll get harder and you’ll want to curse me out for writing them!

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Wally Schnalle: Harmonic Jazz Triplets

We take a look at harmonic comping, in which the two separate rhythms played on two limbs overlap under the standard jazz triplet ride pattern.

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The Schnalle Method: Soloing With Seven

Spice up your drum solos by applying odd-numbered sticking patterns — in this case, the double paradiddle tap – within the context of 4/4 time.