Drumming Lessons

Robin Dimaggio Timberland Groove

I’ll keep this short and sweet as the real juice is in the video below by Robin Dimaggio. Here’s yet another cool groove you can work on and incorporate into your playing to help give it some special flavor. As always, make sure you have fun practicing this thing. Until next time… (FYI: this exert [...]

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Double Stroke Open Roll

Here’s a really easy way to make your double stroke open rolls sound more powerful and even. I learnt this technique from one of my drum teachers years ago and it helped tidy up my double stroke rolls immediately. This drum lesson has to do with accenting the second beat of each double stroke. See, most [...]

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Self Taught Drummer Chad Smith

Here’s a cool drum solo by the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s drummer, Chad Smith. The reason why I like to show this solo is not because I rekon the Chili’s are one of the best bands to ever walk this earth, but because Chad is a self-confessed, self-taught drummer just like me. Chad learnt a [...]

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