Video Lesson: Using Syncopation To Create Accent Patterns

My focus this week is smoothing out my left-hand lead and developing my left-handed accents.

Lessons, VideosChristian JohnsonDecember 16, 2019Lessons, Rolls, Rudiments, Practice Pad, Practicing, Practice, Snare Drum, Drum Pad, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Warm-Ups, SyncopationComment

Video Lesson: Singles and Doubles from Tommy Igoe's Great Hands For A Lifetime

This week I focused on getting my hands nice and loose while playing rolls. So, I took an excerpt from Great Hands For A Lifetime and concentrated on staying loose, loose, loose.

Video Lesson: Accent-Diddles: Part 3

Here’s the third exercise in my paradiddle grid. Play accents on both singles of the paradddle and then shift the whole pattern back to create new phrases.

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Videos, LessonsChristian JohnsonNovember 24, 2019Paradiddles, Practice Pad, Practice, Warm-Ups, Intermediate, Advanced, LessonsComment

Video Lesson: Accent-Diddles: Part 2

This is just the second exercise from a book of Paradiddle-based exercises I’ve been working on. These things are simple to understand but difficult to play.

With practice, you’ll gain the ability to create some really cool patterns with the unique combinations of accents and stickings.

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Videos, LessonsChristian JohnsonNovember 12, 2019Paradiddles, Practice Pad, Practice, Warm-Ups, Intermediate, Advanced, LessonsComment

Video Lesson: Accent-Diddles: Part 1

Here’s a teaser for a book of Paradiddle-based exercises I’ve been working on. The thing holding me back is that I CAN’T PLAY THE EXERCISES YET. Here’s where I’m at with the first one.

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