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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Getting paid, lovin bass player, using metronome: Rythm magazine and Music radar give us 20 good tips for rehearsing drummer
First ten tips for rehearsin drummer : from tempo to getting paid
More ten tips for rehearsing drummer : from metronome to recording

Double pedal addicted: here you can download a bonus lesson by Russ Miller, not included on the Arrival: Behind the Glass DVD
Download Russ Miller double pedal podcast
And, after downloading for free Russ Miller lesson on double pedal, check our double pedal tecnique exercises

Music Radar gift us with two articles on how to reach a correct posture on the drumset with Alexander Tecnique: feeling better on drumset is good for your your drumming.
How to improve posture with the Alexander Technique: part 1
How to improve posture with the Alexander Technique: part 2

Learning from the giants is the best way to improve tecnique, musicality and skills, searching for our voice.
Here a pdf file with some trascriptions from drums master, made by one of the best educators, italian drummer Franco Rossi, featuring Steve Gadd, Alex Acuña, Mike Clark, Jeff Porcaro, Peter Erskine, Billy Cobham, Omar Hackim, Alphonse Mouzon, [...]

Some good stuff from our beloved Bonzo?, (pdf file)

From the Drumshead magazine education column “The Latin Quarter” by Robby Ameen, you should not miss this article (enhanced with video demo and pdf scores) of how to develope clave and cascara independence on the drumset.
Robbie Ameen is a master of afro-cuban drumming (Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Simon, Ruben Blades, Dave Valentin, Eddie Palmieri, Mongo Santamaria, [...]

Drumset scores are not so standardized as other instruments: every drummer, publisher or notation software can decide and declare is own mapping of the drum kit elements to the staff. Drumset itself is different from drummer to drummer, so it’s difficult to standardize the notation.
There are, anyway, some more standard symbols: snare is quite always [...]

A Cadenza (italian for cadence) is “an extended, improvisatory style section inserted near the end of movement. The purpose of a cadenza is to give singers or players a chance to exhibit their technical skill and – not last – their ability to improvise. Since the middle of the 19th century, however, mostcadences [...]

Using linear drumming (the ‘one beat – one sound’ style) we can practice limb coordination in many ways. We can design simple schemes on the set (circles, x, squares etc) defining schemes that help us to develope independence, coordination and timing.
A first, simple, set of exercises is Linear drumming circles: 4 sounds (one for [...]

A very interesting article by Mike Mangini, teacher at Berklee college of music, showing how to develope the Clockwise – Counterclockwise limb system. Good to train all body, good to open mind. The system raise control, coordination and independece between the four limb. The article has video and score.
Coordinare gli arti inferiori e superiori [...]

On Drumhead Magazine there’s an interesting column on how to avoid injuries in drumming. Column is written by dr. Gregory Werner, chiropractor specialized ‘in assisting professional musicians, entertainers and sports figures’. Good idea to read and, most of all, taking some time for warm up before gigs or practice.
Here’s the article with some stretching [...]