Drum Guru
Hudson Music is pleased to offer exclusive lesson content from Drum Guru™. Drum Guru features lesson “packs” taught by drummers demonstrating great grooves, fills, and sharing other insights and techniques. Each lesson demonstrates various techniques, groove playing, soloing, musical styles, and many other insights. Each lesson pack features a video demonstrating the lesson, as well as audio and notation to follow along and practice on your own.
Flying Colors “Kayla”
$4.99
Prog drumming legend Mike Portnoy here performs the track “Kayla” from the band Flying Colors, and then demonstrates some of the key concepts used in the song, including the use of odd time signatures.
$4.99
Influences Pack 1
$4.99
Join drumming superstar Mike Portnoy as he presents a series of lessons that will teach you concepts employed by Mike which were inspired by his heroes: John Bonham, Alex Van Halen, Dave Lombardo, and Lars Ulrich.
$4.99
Influences Pack 2
$4.99
Join drumming superstar Mike Portnoy as he presents a series of lessons that will teach you concepts employed by Mike which were inspired by his heroes: Neil Peart, Stewart Copeland, Keith Moon, and Ringo Starr.
$4.99
Coordination with Rudiments Pack
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For intermediate players, Mike Mangini show some creative ways to apply rudiments to the drum set, all of which require different limb coordination.
$4.99
Odd Meters Pack
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Dream theater drummer Mike Mangini teaches you to play in nine different odd time signatures. Using his unique “not quite doubled” system and using a click, the lessons are completely interactive: first you learn the new meter, and then you trade phrases with Mike. All odd meters from 3 to 19 are included.
$4.99
Dream Theater’s “Outcry”
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For advanced players, Mike Mangini breaks down the drum part for a complex odd-meter sequence of 49 notes which appears in the Dream Theater song “Outcry.”
$4.99
Basic Coordination Pack
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For beginners, Mike Mangini explains the basic limb combinations and coordination concepts needed to play drumset, and demonstrates some basic beats.
$4.99
Phrasing Fills in Triplets
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Mark Guiliana provides several examples of how to move a triplet fill around in the bar to start and end in different places, sometimes going over the bar line, expanding your ability to play interesting fills.
$4.99
Phrasing Fills in 16ths
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Mark Guiliana provides several examples of how to move a 16th-note fill around in the bar to start and end in different places, sometimes going over the bar line, expanding your ability to play interesting fills.
$4.99
Samba Pack 2
$4.99
Brazilian drummer and samba master Kiko Freitas presents a second pack of authentic samba grooves.
$4.99
Samba Pack 1
$4.99
Brazilian drummer and samba master Kiko Freitas presents the first of two packs giving an authentic overview of samba grooves.
$4.99
R&B Groove Pack 1
$4.99
Groove and technique master John Blackwell demonstrates killer grooves from famous artists he has worked with and his influences.
$4.99