Hand to Hand Warmup is a free video lesson by Radley Fricker that will get your muscles and joints moving and help your timing as well. This lesson teaches basic and essential warmup exercises that will become part of your everyday practice routine. Great for beginners and drumming veterans who want to strengthen their stick control.
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Beginning Rock Beats 1 by Radley Fricker is a downloadable Quicktime video lesson which teaches you to play three backbeat patterns. These grooves feature a steady hi hat and snare pattern played against varied bass drum rhythms. Backbeat rhythms are the basis of thousands of popular rock and R&B songs. The premium download includes a PDF file with the drum notation and an MP3 jam track taken from the Let's Jam for Drummers CD. This lesson is a followup to the free lesson Rock Backbeat Basics. $4.99
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| Beginning Rock Beats 1 | Beginning Rock Beats 6 |
| Beginning Rock Beats 2 | Drum Primer Book & CD |
| Beginning Rock Beats 3 | Let's Jam for Drummers CD |
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| Beginning Rock Beats 5 |