Steve Gadd’s highly inventive approach to creating original beats is typified and immortalised in this awesome thirty-second-note groove, based on a re-voiced inverted double stroke…
This lesson shows you several ways to apply the paradiddle-diddle rudiment to the drum kit using simple voicings, additional accents and combining it with the…
This set of independence & co-ordination exercises combines single-stroke, double-stroke and paradiddle stickings between the four…
This lesson shows you 100 different ways to combine single-stroke and double-stroke stickings between the four…
This video shows you a drum lick based on a 12-note triplet sticking suitable for dropping into a Songo or other Cuban feel without breaking…
I came up with this 9-note drum lick back at university and have had people asking about it ever since. One YouTube commenter said it…
This is a powerful and very handy drum lick made up of a flam and a drag. With a little practice the ‘Blushda’ will sit…
Found in an old Billy Cobham drum clinic video, this pattern combines a 3-note pattern in the left hand with a 4-note pattern in the…
In this mini-lesson, Sacha demonstrates some great swing coordination exercises that really put your snare drum and bass drum to work! When you practice these…
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Steve Gadd invented some killer grooves over the years and this is one of my favourites. It’s incredibly simple but…
In this video, Sacha plays a swing coordination exercise where the right hand plays a traditional cymbal beat while the other three limbs play a…
This is essentially a video response to a YouTube video Sacha posted a few years back. Quite a few people wanted to know what was…
