Many of my students have learned this piece and passed their exams. It’s an enjoyable piece to play with lots of energy and it’s deceptively hard to perform the whole song without mistakes. The videos were recorded using a phone camera and a Zoom HD1...
Hi Everyone – I’m preparing to post some online drum lesson videos in July. The videos will be pre recorded and posted on Youtube and Facebook. Please subscribe to my youtube channel and follow me on Facebook and you’ll see the videos when they are...
The drums in this video are towards the end of the song, but if you have time, watch it from the start because the drums have more effect when you’ve got into the song. When you hear layered drums on recordings, this is a visual representation of how these types...
Linear drum beats, a term that I was introduced to at drum college, are made up of single drum hits only. No drums or cymbals are hit simultaneously. This leads to interesting sounding beats that can be quite hard to play after a little deviation from basic linear...
I saw Gabrielle Aplin live at The Ritz in Manchester on her debut album tour in 2013, so although I don’t watch many music videos, this was on my radar and the images of all the drummers lured me in. Gabrielle Aplin has released this music video ahead of her...
Video Lesson In this lesson we will run through 10 popular rock drum beats. I will show you how to do variations on each beat, which will extend the contents of the sheet a lot, and give you ideas for practicing. I will also show you how they sound at slow, medium and...
