Online Lessons
- Joropo shaker technique applied to drumset (YouTube link)
- Hand Drumming: “Kuku” VIDEO (YouTube link)
Get the (boxed and standard) notation here: Hand Drumming: “Kuku” NOTATION (pdf) - Paradiddle Inversion Drumset Application (YouTube link)
- Hand Drumming: “Heel/Toe Roll & Tumbao” (YouTube link)
- Double Bass Drumming: “Drop Two” (YouTube link)
- Mel Bay ‘Percussion Sessions’ Hand Drumming Crash Course: Part Five (external link)
Combining Heel/Toe with our basic strokes. (includes video clips!) - Mel Bay ‘Percussion Sessions’ Hand Drumming Crash Course: Part Four (external link)
Intro to Heel and Toe strokes. - Mel Bay ‘Percussion Sessions’ Hand Drumming Crash Course: Part Three (external link)
Incorporating 16th-notes and 16th-rests, allowing for even more interesting patterns! - Mel Bay ‘Percussion Sessions’ Hand Drumming Crash Course: Part Two (external link)(with video clips!)
This lesson combines the basic hand drum strokes from Part One, creating several great sounding rhythms! - Mel Bay ‘Percussion Sessions’ Hand Drumming Crash Course: Part One (external link)(with video clips!)
This introductory lesson explores some common hand drum strokes and sounds, and then combines them to create a few easy rhythms. - Gahu: Part Two (pdf)
Learn how to play the boba master drum rhythms of Gahu, a recreational dance of the Ewe people of Ghana. Presented in both standard and ‘boxed’ notation styles. Published in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of World Percussion & Rhythm. - Drumming The Clave (pdf)
Utilize “clave” to create cool hand drum grooves and exercises! - Jammin’ the Kpanlogo (pdf)
An introduction to the Kpanlogo rhythms of the Ga people of Ghana, West Africa. - Drum drum drum: How to beat out a groovy rhythm (pdf)
published in the March 2007 issue of Salem Monthly. - Floubles
A Drummer’s Digest follow-up to ‘Fliplets’ (below).
Visit the DD website for mp3′s of the exercises.
Floubles- English version (pdf)
Floubles- Swedish version (pdf) - Fliplets
Try out these great triplet exercises, flipped around to work all limb combinations!
written for Drummer’s Digest, the Swedish online drum magazine.
Fliplets- English version (pdf)
Fliplets- Swedish version (pdf) - Gahu: Part One (pdf)
Learn how to play the support drum rhythms of Gahu, a recreational dance of the Ewe people of Ghana. Presented in both standard and ‘boxed’ notation styles. Published in the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of World Percussion & Rhythm. - Kuku For You! (pdf)
An introduction to the djembe rhythms of Kuku, from Guinea, West Africa. - Bring It On #1 (pdf)
Get down with your bad self! - Bring It On #2 (pdf)
Can you say ‘Superimposed Metric Modulation?’ - Songo Revisited (pdf)
Afro-Cuban coordination challenge. - Gahu Challenge (pdf)
A collage of drum, bell and rattle rhythms from the Ewe ‘Gahu’ dance piece, all played simultaneously on the drumset! - Left Foot Clave for the Cha-Cha (pdf)
published in the April 2006 issue of Percussive Notes. - Achiagbekor For Drumset (pdf)
A Ghanaian war dance, transferred to the kit; published in the February 2005 issue of Percussive Notes. - Easy Double Bass Drum Licks (pdf)
NOW WITH MP3′S!! (as requested by Jarrod Marks & Allen Hueber) - Double Bass Drum Exercises For Your Hands (I mean . . . Feet) (pdf)
Develop your foot control, speed and power by practicing hand patterns. - Quad-a-diddles (pdf)
Paradiddle exercises for marching quad players. - The Basics of Hand Drumming (pdf)
published in the October 2006 issue of Salem Monthly. - Zero To Drummer in 3 Easy Lessons- Lesson 1 (pdf)
A hand drummer’s introduction to GUN & DUN strokes. - Zero To Drummer in 3 Easy Lessons- Lesson 2 (pdf)
A hand drummer’s introduction to GO & DO strokes. - Zero To Drummer in 3 Easy Lessons- Lesson 3 (pdf)
A hand drummer’s introduction to PA & TA strokes.