The 80s Drummer Lesson 1 – Are you learning to play the drums? Do like the drummers from the 1980s? In this series of videos, I deliver the drums lessons I had in the mid-to-late-80s with my teacher Paul Francis of Orchard Percussion in Essex, UK. To do this, I’m going through the manuscript book of exercises he wrote for me as source material.
What's Covered in the Video?
This first video covers a lot of ground!
- Drum legend – shows how drums are represented on the music stave.
- Crotchets (quarter notes) – played as single strokes.
- Quavers (eighth notes) – played as double strokes.
- The flam.
- Flam paradiddle.
- Single paradiddle.
- Triplets.
- Backbeat / fill.
- Latin beat.
- Jazz swing beat.
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And Finally...
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