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Video Lesson! Progressive Drumming Essentials, Part 12: Double Bass Boot Camp
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the July 2016 issue, which is available here. Rock Perspectives Progressive Drumming essentials Part 12: Double Bass Boot Camp by Aaron Edgar One thing that can separate drummers with…
Video Lesson! Progressive Drumming Essentials, Part 11: Making Four Sound Like More
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the June 2016 issue, which is available here. Rock Perspectives Progressive Drumming Essentials Part 11: Making Four Sound Like More I’ll never forget the first time I heard Meshuggah.…
Video Lesson! Progressive Drumming Essentials, Part 9: Switching Gears With the Double Bass Pyramid
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the April 2016 issue, which is available here. Rock Perspectives Progressive Drumming Essentials Part 9: Switching Gears With the Double Bass Pyramid Changing subdivisions on a dime is…
Video Lesson: Progressive Drumming Essentials Part 7, Beat Displacement
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the February 2016 issue, which is available here. Rock Perspectives Progressive Drumming Essentials Part 7: Beat Displacement Has a song ever caught your ear in just the right kind…
Video Lesson: Progressive Drumming Essentials, Part 6 - Syncopated Double Bass...The Easy Way
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the January 2016 issue, which is available here. Rock Perspectives Progressive Drumming Essentials Part 6: Syncopated Double Bass…the Easy Way When I began working on double bass, I was…
Video Lesson! Progressive Drumming Essentials, Part 4: How to Feel Odd Subdivisions
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the October 2015 issue, which is available here. Rock Perspectives Progressive Drumming Essentials Part 4: How to Feel Odd Subdivisions by Aaron Edgar When I was first learning quintuplets…
VIDEO LESSON! Progressive Drumming Essentials, Part 3: Polyrhythmic Grooves
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the September 2015 issue, which is available here. Rock Perspectives Progressive Drumming Essentials Part 3: Polyrhythmic Patterns by Aaron Edgar Last month we learned some of the theory behind polyrhythms,…
VIDEO LESSON! Progressive Drumming Essentials, Part 1: Understanding Odd Time Signatures
The excerpt below is taken from the complete article that appears in the July 2015 issue, which is available here. Rock Perspectives Progressive Drumming Essentials Part 1: Understanding Odd Time Signatures by Aaron Edgar Before we start playing sick proggy…