Four Measure Repeating Beat & Accents with Locked Out Of Heaven – Bruno Mars

This lesson pulls the 4-measure repeating beat tecnique and then accented hi hat technique from the song "Locked Out Of Heaven" by Bruno Mars.

Groove Factory – Metronome Training Lesson #2

Video 2 of 2 over metronome training and how to increase the depth of your drumset grooves.

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Wrath – Buckcherry – Drum Beat

This selection is from the April 2013 issue of Drum! Magazine (p.74). Nate Brown walks through Xavier Muriel's part to the song Wrath by Buckcherry.

More Cowbell! – Drum Beat From Feeling This – by Blink 182

In this video lesson, we are going to take a look at the cowbell groove from the track 'Feeling This' by Blink 182, featuring Travis Barker on drums. This sweet groove has got a latin style ostinato with the left hand on the cowbell, while your right hand maintains a basic 16th note 4/4 beat on the hats and snare, making this an overall tricky groove to get down. Hope you enjoy!

Tough Mama – Bob Dylan – Concealing The Backbeat

he grooves in Tough Mama by Bob Dylan (1973, Planet Waves Album) are a perfect example of the “concealing the backbeat” technique. The listener temporarily loses the placement of the backbeat on the snare, and then when it falls back on it sounds sweet and clean.