This warm-up combines the flam rudiment in different single and double strokes. Good for hands for finger and wrist control and for double pedal tecnique
Click here and download Flams warmup for snare and double bass drum

In the beginning was The One. The One was near James Brown and James Brown was The One. The secret of the funk explained by Bootsie Collins and Jabo Starks.

Use the paradiddle on the hi-hat and snare to create cool drum’n’bass grooves

I really like this solo. Smooth and musical

Queen, Another one bites the dust linea bass line (drums play-along)

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Queen, Another one bites the dust linea bass line (drums play-along) 2

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Money long version
Pink Floyd, Money: Bass Line for Drums Play​-​along (long) by karmadrums
Money: verse & chorus
Pink Floyd, Money: Bass Line for Drums Play-along (short) by karmadrums

It was only a matter of time. Now you can study drums with New York Collective faculty teachers directly from your home. Drummers collective launched online drums live lessons. Check here how

Who said George Lawrence Stone ‘Stick Control’ is only for hands?
You can use this fundamental book to practice and have a lot of fun playing Stick Control exsercises with feet too.
Here some quick tips for a routine, be creative and find yours.
1. Use pages 5,6 or 7
2. Play exercises with double bass pedal, kick/hi hat and or simply to the floor
3. Play exercises as prescribed by Stone (20 times) but also practicing every bar 4/8/12/16 times: those are the standard measure lenght you’ll deal to while playing
4. when you have …

Some five strokes permutations useful for developing speed, independence on the double bass pedal.
Download: Five Strokes 4 a Double Bass Drum

A simple (but not too simple) warm-up playing a paradiddle with and foot ostinato

It’s a Fundamental Rudiment, is a foundation itself of drumming. One of the best drums instructor and musician explains how to develope your single stroke roll.
Marko Djodjevic, how to develope your single stroke roll

An online encyclopedia dedicated to Arab music: sheets, scales, rythms, melodies, tecnique, instruments and artists: Maqam World
Rythms: alphabetical order

Aaraj
5/8

Aghar
Aqsaq 5/8

Aqsaq
9/8

Awfar
19/4

Awis
11/8

Ayyub
2/4

Dawr
Hindi 7/8

Dawr
Al Kabir 28/4

Dharafat
13/8

Fakhit
20/4

Fikra 15/4

Frankajin 24/4

Hazaj 22/4

Jurjina 10/8

Katakufti 8/8

Khush Rank 17/8

Malfuf 2/4

Maqsum 4/4

Masmudi Kabir 8/4

Masmudi Saghir 4/4

Mudawwar 12/4

Muhajjar 14/4

Mukhammas 16/8

Mukhammas Turki 32/4

Murabbaa 13/4

Nawakht 7/4

Nawakht Hindi 16/8

Nim Dawr 18/8

Nim Oyun Havasi 11/8

Nim Rawan 9/4

Sadah Duyek 16/8

Samai Ta’er 3/8

Samai Thaqil 10/8

Shanbar Halabi 24/4

Shanbar Kabir 48/4

Sinkin Samai 6/4

Sittatu Ashar 32/4

Turrah 21/4

Wahda 4/4

Wahda Mukallafa 2/4

Warshan Arabi 32/4

Rythms by timing

Ayyub 2/4

Malfuf 2/4

Wahda Mukallafa 2/4

Unknown 2/4 2/4

Samai Ta’er 3/8

Unknown 3/8 3/8

Maqsum 4/4

Masmudi Saghir 4/4

Wahda 4/4

Aaraj 5/8

Aghar …

A lesson on timekeeping for drummers, by Greg Bissonette: “”The primary job of the drummer is to choose the right tempo for each song and hold the tempo through the whole song. To improve your timekeeping abilities, record yourself playing with a metronome or click-track for 30 seconds, then turn off the metronome but continue playing the groove for another minute or two. Listen to your recording and analyze whether you sped up or slowed down. Did you speed up during a fill or slow down when you played softly? …

A Berklee graduated friend suggested a good warm-up using the 3 gold page of George Lawrence Stone Stick Control.
Take the page 5,6,7 and play every exercise 6 time them go on until you play all the three page. Start with 75 bmp and then increase and decrease speed until you can execute the warm-up very fast and VERY slowly. Be consistent in sound a search for fluid and smooth execution.
If you still don’t have Stick Control [and that is a shame :-)] you can find page 5 and …

Two great video howto for drum tuning, featuring Greg Bissonette and Will Kennedy
Greg Bissonette tips & trick on how to tune our drumset
Is a free video on drumchannell.com so enjoy it and Greg si brilliant (as usual) and entertaining, explaining how to tune oru drumset with a lot of musical ‘vocal’ examples (eg. ‘if you do so, you’ll get a “boom” sound’)
Some tips you can explore on the video:
1. Use only ears, fingers and a key. (No drum tuner allowed)
2. Plug and unplug the tension rods in circle (no …