One of the best things you can do in your drumming study is work on practical techniques, stickings, grooves, and fills that can be applied in real-life situations on the bandstand and in the studio. After playing a wide variety of music in my formative years, and then becoming part of Nashville’s touring and recording scene, I’ve made note of a handful of these “practi-patterns” that have shown their face time and time again.

December 2015 Issue