L1toL31 free lesson
The Essential Grooves
The beats every working drummer must own.
6 lessons1h 19mwith Tommy
Department · Levels 1–9
Grooves
From the money beat to ghost-note funk, half-time shuffles, second-line and neo-soul pockets. Learn the groove, then the variations, then how to make it yours.
- Ghost notes
- Shuffles
- Half-time feels
- Hi-hat articulation
- Kick drum vocabulary
- 4
- courses
- 21
- lessons
- 5h 49m
- of video
- 1
- free
Courses
Work through grooves in order — or jump to your level.
- L4toL8
Shuffles & Half-Time Feels
Texas, Chicago, Purdie and the half-time shuffle.
5 lessons1h 31mwith Tommy
- L6toL9
Neo-Soul & Modern R&B
Drunk feels, swung sixteenths and programmed-sounding pockets.
5 lessons1h 38mwith Tommy
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Time Playing
Be the drummer everyone wants to play with.
Internal clock, subdivision awareness, playing ahead/behind the beat, click-free stability and long-form timekeeping with the metronome dropping out.
- 2
- courses
- 10
- lessons
- L1–8
- levels
Rudiments
The 40 — and what to do with them.
All 40 PAS rudiments plus hybrids, each with slow/medium/fast demos, notation, and the Rudiment Trainer that tracks your clean tempo ceiling over time.
- 4
- courses
- 23
- lessons
- L1–10
- levels
All 21 grooves lessons, plus thirteen more departments.
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