Advanced Drum Lessons

The Advanced Drum Lessons section of DrumLessons.com was created to help more experienced drummers build upon the skills they learned in both the intermediate and beginner drum lessons sections of this website.

If you have completed both the beginner and intermediate drum lessons sections and feel comfortable with the techniques you learned, feel free to watch these lessons and try out the more advanced techniques and exercises!

General Lessons

7 Mistakes Every Drummer Makes Experimenting With Electronics Building Your Weaker Hand Hands & Feet Separation Linear Drum Fill Improvisation Developing The Left Foot Play Drums With Confidence Combining Drum Fills One Handed Roll Applications One Handed Roll

Dynamic Drumming

Hi-Hat Barking Cymbal Choking Advanced Ghost Notes Advanced Opening-Closing Hats

Rudiments

Triple Paradiddle Speed Adding Drags To Your Fills Pataflafla Applied Five Stroke Roll Insanity Flam Accent Madness Single Stroke Roll Speed

Bass Drum Lessons

Bass Drum Triple Strokes Heel-Toe Technique Fills Heel-Toe Technique Beats Advanced Single Pedal Speed Double Bass Drum Beats

Rock Drumming

7 Beats You Don’t Need To Know Metric Modulation Simplified Fills On Different Counts Cool Linear Drum Fill How To Read A Polyrhythm Chart What Is A Polyrhythm Advanced 5/4 Drum Fills Advanced 5/4 Drum Beats Double Stroke Sweep The Herta Sweep Advanced 7/8 Drum Fills

Heavy Metal Drumming

Advanced Metal Drum Fills Breaking Up The Lead Hand Odd Time Metal Beats Heavy Metal Blast Beats

Play-Alongs

Yuca – I’m Alive She Said 5/4 Play-Along One Bar Fills The Roots “Boom” “Like The Average Stalker” YUCA – “Anthem” YUCA – “It’s About Something” Dying Hearts Desire – “Calling”

Recording Drums

How To EQ Overheads & Cymbals How To EQ Toms How To EQ A Snare Drum How To EQ A Bass Drum Drum Set Mic Technique Overview How To Mic Cymbals How To Mic Toms How To Mic A Snare Drum How To Mic A Bass Drum

Live Lessons

Gavin Harrison – How To Create Amazing Drum Parts David Garibaldi – Building Coordination Gergo Borlai – Storytelling On The Drums Carmine Appice – Realistic Rock Linear Drum Beats Casey Cooper – How To Learn Songs Quickly Gerry Brown – Showmanship While Grooving Bernard “Pretty” Purdie – The Purdie Shuffle Benny Greb – The Art & Science Of Groove Thomas Lang – Applying Technique On The Drum-Set Antonio Sanchez – Creative Soloing & Freedom Kenny Aronoff – Functional Practicing Tony Royster Jr – Creative Concepts Matt Garstka – Efficient Practicing Larnell Lewis – The Groove Builder Stanton Moore – Musical Mileage Jim Riley – Creating Grooves Peter Erskine – Playing Brushes Thomas Pridgen – Applying Rudiments John Blackwell – Drumming Discipline & Improvisation Michael Schack Drumeo Lesson Larnell Lewis Drumeo Lesson Sean Lang Drum Solo Introduction To Breakbeats Practicing On V-Drums Latin Drumming Essentials Playing With A Bass Player How To Play Drums By Ear Introduction To Blast Beats Hand Drumming Djembe/Cajon Essential Shuffle Patterns 7 Essential Drum Beats How To Tune Your Drums Practicing With Play-Alongs The Flat Foot Technique How To Build Finger Control Developing Speed Around The Kit Express Yourself On The Drums Broken Hi-Hat Beats Accenting Your Hi-Hats Hand To Feet Fills Developing Groove On The Drums Moving Around The Drums Linear Drum Fills Bass Drum Speed Techniques Cobus Potgieter Live #2 Cobus Potgieter Live #1