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Terence Higgins: Throwing The Flam

When in doubt – flam! That’s what Terrence Higgins thought when he put together the following interesting ways to apply the flam to the drum set.

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Terence Higgins: The Boogaloo Factor

Boogaloo is a genre of Latin music that emerged in the 60s. The style was short-lived, but has resurfaced recently in the form of acid jazz.

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Terence Higgins: The Triplet Invert Warmup

Get the blood flowing with these triplet-based warm-up exercises that orchestrate this familiar rudiment between both hands and your bass drum.

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Inverted Sixteenth-Note Grid Reversed

Terrence Higgins teaches us how to use the bass drum as a shifting accent in addition to inverting accents with a 4-2-1 grid pattern. Got it? Good!

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Terence Higgins: The Figure-8 Crossover

Crossovers between the snare and floor tom look cool, but Terence Higgins stumbled across a variation that’s even cooler – a twirling figure-8 move.

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Terrence Higgins: Double-Stroke Fills

Terrence Higgins gives us the double-stroke roll to practice, a fundamental rudiment and one of the most efficient and effective rudiments available.

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Terence Higgins: Inverted 16th-Note Grid Reversed

Terence Higgins shows us another grid exercise using the bass drum as the shifting accent, but this time taking it a few steps further.

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Terence Higgins: Building Facility With Groups Of 5

Change-up your practice routine with some challenging five-note exercises. We promise that 4/4 licks will feel so much easier after you’re done!

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Terence Higgins: Paradiddles In 3D

One of Terence Higgins’ favorite exercises – the 3-dimensional paradiddle, aka the “paradiddle pyramid” – can help orchestrate solos and fills.

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Terence Higgins: Left-Hand Lead On The “Sock”

Like Maceo says, “Make it funky. Make it funky!” and with this simple funk-groove exercise you will soon gain a new approach to making it funky.