54 – Slide Technique and Single Pedal Triple Strokes

Teacher: Thomas Pridgen Length: 5 min Category: Foot Technique, Secrets From the Pros, Technique

Pridgen demonstrates the techniques he developed for playing three notes in a row as fast sixteenths or triplets, including an explanation of the slide technique.

195 – Favorite Fill

Teacher: Nate Morton Length: 6 min Category: Secrets From the Pros, Vocabulary

Nate demonstrates a fill that he finds himself using often due to its versatility and dynamic composition.

196 – Maximizing Simple Fills

Teacher: Nate Morton Length: 10 min Category: Free, Secrets From the Pros, Vocabulary

Nate, drummer on "The Voice" gives an example of how you can take a basic concept or pattern on the set, and maximize it.

Paradiddle Fills on Snare Drum and Hi-Hat

Teacher: Eric Moore Length: 6 min Category: Free, Rudiments

Eric Moore shows how paradiddles can be used as fills around your kit.

196 – Maximizing Simple Fills

Teacher: Nate Morton Length: 10 min Category: Beats and Fills – Improve your Groove, Free

Nate Morton, drummer on "The Voice" gives an example of how you can take a basic concept or pattern on the set, and maximize it. From Drum Channel's "Secrets From the Pros."

The Big 3

Teacher: Adam Kuns Length: 6 min Category: Vocabulary

This beat is a common groove in R&B as well as Gospel. The focus should be on leaving space in between the downbeat with the bass drum and the backbeat to create room for the groove to breathe.

Aaron Spears Clinic Part 1

Teacher: Aaron Spears Length: 30 min Category: Clinic, Featured

Aaron took some time off with Usher to share his philosophy and approach to drumming in this DC Clinic.

45 – Paradiddle Fills on Snare Drum and Hi-Hat

Teacher: Eric Moore Length: 6 min Category: Free, Rudiments, Secrets From the Pros

Eric Moore shows how paradiddles can be used as fills around your kit.

46 – Shout vs. Rock

Teacher: Eric Moore Length: 7 min Category: Secrets From the Pros, Vocabulary

In This Lesson, Eric Moore demonstrates the differences between church shout beats and straight ahead rock beats.