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Gerald Heyward rip through Chick Corea’s infamous tune “Spain” at the 2012 Drum-Off, accompanied by Eddie Brown on bass and Ethan Farmer on keyboards.
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Drummers bat around the term “linear drumming” quite a bit, but only a few actually know what it means. Wally Schnalle comes to the rescue.
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Stanton Moore comes up with some grooves out of New Orleans rhythms that he suggests to use as a fill or variation in your playing.
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Tom Brechtlein gives us some more grooves to play around with and practice that he's come up with.
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Wally shows us ways to accompany the snare and bass drum, and how to develop a rhythmic vocabulary to interact with and react to an ensemble.
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There’s no better drummer on the face of the Earth than Peter Erskine to provide a collection of fusion fills to enhance your drumming vocabulary.
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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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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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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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Even famous jazz-fusion drummers like Tom Brechtlein can have downtime. These exercises are some ways he stays busy between sound checks and sets.
