In this episode you'll start using triplets around the kit and look at three different sticking patterns to help you move around comfortably, depending on the fill.

Download the exercises from this episode ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ so you can play along. More exercises like this are in my book "Intermediate 1" available from my ⁠⁠website⁠⁠.

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In this episode you'll start learning about triplets:

• How to count them
• How to play them
• How to change between triplets and other note values

Download the exercises from this episode ⁠here⁠ so you can play along, or for these and more exercises like this you can buy the book "Intermediate 1" from my ⁠website⁠.

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In this episode you'll continue to develop your Hi-hat foot independence, only this time you'll get used to playing the four Hi-hat foot patterns from the last episode, with four different fills. You'll also get a first listen of the next song in the book: "Club Hi-hat Foot".

Download the exercises from this episode here so you can play along, or for these and more exercises like this you can buy the book "Intermediate 1" from my website.

The Jimmy Chamberlain Video

The Keith Carlock Video

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In this episode you'll start learning how to use the Hi-hat foot independently, within grooves. After an initial warm-up exercise, this will then be broken down into four different foot patterns you can apply to a variety of grooves.

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In this episode we'll continue working with Hi-hat accents, only this time we'll be adding them to 16th note grooves before having a listen to the next song in the book: "No Accents, No Cry".

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In this episode we begin working on Lesson Chapter 4 of the book "Intermediate - 1". The exercises in this episode can be downloaded here.

In this episode you'll learn how to add accented (loud) strikes to simple grooves in order to give them a new feel and even change the pulse of the groove and you'll learn how a change in movement rather than controlling physical force can get you these results.

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In this episode we're going to explore adding snare drum hits to the "e" and "a" counts. Up to this point, most of your snare drum hits will probably fall with a Hi-hat strike but now we're going to start adding hits in between these to form a new kind of groove!

We'll also combine the elements of the last episode with this new snare drum positions, within the next song in the book "Nothing but an E/A Thing"

This episode has a lot of play-along opportunities so you're going to need to ⁠download the exercises⁠ or get the book "Intermediate - 1", available in both ⁠eBook⁠ and ⁠Paperback⁠ formats from my ⁠website⁠.

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In this week's episode we're going to strengthen your knowledge of note values so that you can not only play patterns confidently when there isn't a Hi-hat or Ride part but also show you how you can start with a simple idea and gradually build upon it in steps until you have a far more impressive sounding part. This is a really simple way of developing your own fill and drum solo ideas!!

This episode has a lot of play-along opportunities so you're going to need to download the exercises or get the book "Intermediate - 1", available in both eBook and Paperback formats from my website.

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