Starting to learn piano? This article lists and describes the Best Keyboard Piano for Beginners and provides quick links to purchase online. If you are just starting out, you may not want to invest in a piano that is too expensive. The following is a list of the best keyboard piano for Beginners. Each option …
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Looking for the best method book to learn the piano? This article covers the best beginner piano books for adults and provide quick links for purchase online. Adults and children learn the piano differently. Adults want to know “why” they are learning what they are learning, whereas kids are content as long as things are …
1: Set achievable goals How to improve on drums tip #1: Set achievable goals that you can work on every time you go to the practise room. A good goal might be to master a particular song and then create a YouTube video. It could also be to make a video of a certain rudiment …
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Play a silky smooth Jazz ride cymbal pattern, crisp 16 notes in Rock, Funk or Samba or fast single strokes. Learning the french grip on drums is one of the most important techniques to learn, because it gives you a quick understanding of fulcrum and finger control. This article will show you how to hold …
Looking for a great book to start learning guitar? This post covers the 5 best guitar books for beginners (kids). It also includes quick links to easily find these books online for purchase. The following list of books is great for kids, but can also work well for adult beginners. As a guitar teacher at …
If you are reading this you are probably experiencing some kind of pain when you play drums or you are suffering from some kind of drumming injury. I’d like to reassure you that this is a common problem that many drummers face and there are many effective ways to deal with it. I know …
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Ty Segall famously said, “You’re not a real drummer until you can play Wipeout.” In this post, you’ll learn how to play Wipeout on drums. And Includes a play-along-backing track without drums and Wipeout drum sheet music pdf (scroll down.) Ty Segall was exaggerating of course, but learning Wipeout is a huge milestone because it …
Not progressing anymore? Anders Ericsson describes in his book PEAK the way in which world class performers improve their skills. In this case I’m speaking about drumming, but this concept literally applies to anything. Most of us think that just doing something over and over will create improvements. This works at first when we are …
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What Does Trading Fours Mean? Most jazz standards are written over a 32 bar form that can be divided in four 8 bar sections. In jazz, each instrument on the band stand can take a turn to play an improvised solo over the 32 bar form. Each instrumentalist, other than the drummer, usually solos over …
In this post, I will teach you how to develop the Herta Rudiment. This rudiment is a single stroke pattern (alternating R-L-R-L.) The basic version is called the 3 Note Herta which is made up of 2 sixteenth notes followed by 2 eighth notes. There is also a 4 note Herta, which consists of adding …
