Great find! You should check out Eddie Christmas of Jon Cleary and the Monster Gentlemen and the drummers (Nikki Glaspie and Raymond Weber) that have played with Dumpstaphunk.

Thank you, will do!

John

That's coool thanks. I need to go practice more now LOL! Different accents really wake this baby up too. I have really been practicing that linear groove a lot you posted a while back. It kicked my ass a bit at first but I'm starting to get it now.

Glenn.

Pat yourself on the back buddy! You're walking in the footsteps of Steve Gadd, one of the most gifted drummers to ever come along. Took me awhile to get a handle on it too. But then, it's advanced level player stuff. It's going to be difficult for most guys. For all but a few pain in the a$$es who learn stuff the first go-round. I hate those guys! lol

If you're enjoying this kind of 'pattern' drumming, there's a ton of licks and tricks to learn and fool around with. Learn them one at a time, really get it inside of you so you can do them in your sleep, without thinking about it. Then move on to the next. In not too long a time, you'll have an internal library of these licks that you can pull out of your bag of tricks whenever needed. You'll be able to feed the groove 'whatever' it is asking for.

Learning that Gadd linear groove gives you a tremendous insight into how he sees and uses the kit. It's a real eye-opener ain't it? To play that thing, you have to move around the drums like Gadd does when he plays it. You -feel- the way his body moves as he uses the different voices. Bloody genius is what it is.

John

Yep that Gadd groove is wicked cool. I still have a way to go on it but getting there. And it's sure fun to play. That Moore groove I've played before but not with accents. That really adds a whole new layer to it for sure. A lot of stuff I play/ have played I've never learned the rudimential background on. Just heard things I liked and learned to play them by ear my way. Most the wrong way I now see LOL. It's nice to see how they really should be done. This old tin man (me) is starting to loosen up a bit and get back into the groove. You Tube has some great stuff on it. Thanks!

Thanks PShuffler,

That Stanton Moore groove took me to a lot of places ie: Percaro, Garibaldi, Ritchie Hayward.

Very nice to get that loose flow just flowing.

Went back and copied the notation by hand on the Gadd Linear Groove.

I am going to make a library of these lessons.

Got more grooves/exercises in music notation?

Thanks again bud.

SA aka greengd

> Got more grooves/exercises in music notation?

Oh you bet! If I haven't gotten you hooked on Linear drumming or playing patterns as of yet, this next one will do it.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NDQqeOAiDA[/ame]

It's a long pattern, but one well worth getting under your hands. Practicing/learning this kind of stuff helped to open up the drum kit for me. It helps to teach you how to move around the kit, to use all of the options and voices that are available. In short, it'll make you a better drummer.

This lesson has it all and delivered by a very good drum coach. When you see what can be done with the pattern (the last part of the video lesson) you won't mind investing the hours it's going to take you to master it. It pays for itself in the end when you hear yourself on the drums and your own playing blows you away. lol

This is all fun and gratifying stuff to learn and play. I'm glad to share it with you.

Enjoy,

John

PS - If your drums don't sound like the ones in the video, (at 4:24) this is an excellent example to use to tune your drums. Tune one drum at a time until they match what you hear in the video. A little time and patience will pay off in a great 'musical' sounding drum kit. The kit in the video is tuned perfectly.

John this is great stuff thanks. I like the doubles he adds with the right hand. These are really cool grooves and yes I'm hooked!!! Your right his drums have a great sound to them. I have my 12 and 16 sounding good but the 13 needs a little work still to be where I like it. These will give me a good guide to shoot for. Excellent.

Here's another favorite of mine (as if it isn't hard to tell...) the Purdie Shuffle. I'll provide the two best examples I could find. Either video will get you there. All roads lead to Rome:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6xPGgoePg&feature=related[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg3lAbifyPE&feature=related[/ame]

My wife loves it whenever I play the Purdie Shuffle, tells me it makes her want to dance. Any groove that can make a woman want to shake her booty is a drum rhythm you want to know how to play - well!

Enjoy, - Bernard Purdies' half-time shuffle is another pure fun groove to play on the drums. It just drips mojo. You'll begin to see a pattern in the kind of drumming that turns me on from the lessons I've been posting all along. I'm into tasty, bad-ass, musical drumming. I figure if it makes me feel good when I play something, whoever is listening will feel it too. I'm a drummer in a Blues band, Blues is all about feeling/groove and tasty playing. I want to give some props to one of my hero's, Tommy Wells, who is, for my money, the most talented working Blues drummer in the business. Tommy plays a lot of session work, all kinds of music, but nobody can touch him when it comes to the Blues. Always knows what to play and where to put it. As solid as drummers come.

Sample:

http://www.jimmyhall.com/media/too_tall.mov

John