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.
Intro To Fills
$3.99
For beginners, expert instructor Tommy Igoe explains the concept of the drum fill, and gives you some basic fills to get you started.
$3.99
Half Time Shuffle
$3.99
For beginners and intermediate players, expert instructor Tommy Igoe explains one of the most asked-about drum grooves in history: the half-time shuffle.
$3.99
Intro To Funk
$3.99
For beginners, expert instructor Tommy Igoe teaches you a basic funk groove with explanation of ghost notes.
$3.99
Rudimental Combinations
$4.99
This sixth and final pack presents a wealth of challenging rudimental stickings and phrases that will push the development of your technique. Concepts include different accent variations for several rudiments, plus a polyrhythmic concept: applying a 3-note sticking within a 4-note rhythm.
$4.99
Stickings, Rudiments, and Moeller Motions
$4.99
This fifth pack deals with several concepts. Steve teaches an interesting two-note concept on the bass drum and provides musical phrases for it; the Moeller motion is explained and demonstrated; and several more rudiments are discussed and played.
$4.99
Paradiddle Variations
$4.99
This fourth pack introduces several more rudimental concepts to enhance development of the hands and grips. Key concepts are applying a swing feel to the rudiments and splitting the rudiments between hands and feet (snare and bass drum).
$4.99
Developing Rebound and Rudimental Concepts
$4.99
This third pack continues the explanation of the development of control and rebound with each grip, mainly through the application of double strokes and the accented upstroke. Rudimental phrases to develop the grips are also introduced.
$4.99
Developing Rebound and Finesse
$4.99
This second pack explains how to develop rebound, finesse, comfort, and relaxation with each grip.
$4.99
Steve Smith Pathways of Motion 1
$4.99
This first pack explains and demonstrates the four grips.
$4.99
Advanced Groupings & Fills
$5.99
In this unique pack, Steve Gadd presents a full approach to learning and applying odd groupings on the drumset, here using a three-note grouping. Five lessons explain how to use the grouping in various phrase lengths, and then Steve demonstrates how to use the concept and a swing context, and how he used it in the drum break of “Love for Sale” from Burning for Buddy.
$5.99
Jazz Concepts & “Aja”
$5.99
In this pack, the legendary Steve Gadd presents demonstrations and explanations on his signature approach to jazz drumming. This is excellent material for expanding your jazz vocabulary. Also included is a breakdown of the drum solo in Steely Dan song “Aja”””one of Gadd’s most well-known recordings!
$5.99
Shuffles
$5.99
Drumming legend Steve Gadd is a master of the shuffle, and here he presents a series of lessons containing different approaches to this classic and important rhythm. Included are performances with musical tracks.
$5.99