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Billy Martin: How To Be Clap Happy

Here's a great exercise that will coordinate your hands and feet, to get that awesome polyrhythmic groove going.

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Billy Martin: Rhythmic Harmony 101

When two or more rhythms combine to create a certain feeling, Billy Martin likes to describe it rhythmic harmony. Need proof? Read on.

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Billy Martin: 4-Way Stridulating

Billy Martin shows us some games that can be used as an exercise in phrasing and rhythmic relationships.

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Billy Martin: Shuffle Scuffle

Billy Martin teaches us a ride cymbal pattern along with a hi-hat foot pattern, to be played simultaneously with a swing feel.

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Billy Martin: From Six To Eight

Billy Martin demonstrates how he switches from 6/8 to 8/8 (4/4), a rhythmic device that traces back to the West African masters of Yoruban culture.

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Billy Martin Clinic At 2011 PASIC

The opening solo by Medeski, Martin & Wood drummer, and DRUM! Magazine columnist, Billy Martin at the 2011 PASIC in Indianapolis.

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Billy Martin: Playing The Funky Waltz

Billy Martin invites you to play around with this dance-style waltz and make it your own.

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Billy Martin: Five Is A Magic Number

Billy Martin introduces us to the “cinquillo,” a five-note pattern that is sure to expand your vocabulary.

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Spaghetti Breaks: Musical Cooking

Billy Martin shows us how to add some flavor to our drumming in order to break up the academic monotony of the musical process.

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Billy Martin: Funky Bell Patterns

Two disparate worlds come together in this drum lesson that fuses central African bell patterns to greasy 4/4 funk beats.