lessons

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Mike Cosgrove: Messing With Time

This month’s exercise is based off of a basic sixteenth-note groove with backbeats on 2 and 4. The hi-hat is accenting every third sixteenth, providing a 3-against-4 feel. It starts differently each time, and will take 12 beats to get back to the original 1.

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Mike Cosgrove: The Windmill Stroke

In this lesson, we are going to develop what some drummers call the “windmill” stroke – so named because of the way your arms look when you’re shredding around the toms or moving from your toms to your snare.