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Tom Brechtlein: Animal Logic

Tom Brechtlein teaches us some fills to use in a solo or even as a challenging warm-up.

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Tom Brechtlein: Three Fills For Three Limbs

Give your left foot a break for a minute while Tom Brechtlein offers a few exercises to help you develop fills with bass drum, hi-hat, and snare.

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Schnalle Method: Sixtuplets in 6, 5, 4, and 3

Wally gives us a collection of stickings that he loves, but also a new exercise that he's been having a bit of fun with.

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Tom Brechtlein: Double-Strokes From The Vaults

Tom Brechtlein shows us some simple double-stroke rolls between the tom and the snare that can be used in a number of ways.

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The Schnalle Method: Short-Roll Rudiments

Want to spice up your grooves? Add some short-roll rudiments. Wally Schnalle shows how to play them cleanly in order to effectively improve your sound.

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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.