Learn How to Drum Series: 3 Awesome Tips for Beginner Hand Drum Solos

We’ve covered a lot in this series, hopefully you’ve caught all 4 of the previous videos. 

One important element to drumming is soloing, improvisation or adlibbing. 

If you’ve struggled in the past to be able to play rhythms in the moment or create tasteful and musical solo then this video will help you.

Looking for free drum lessons?  A little gift for you as you continue to build your djembe drumming skills. 

I want to help you out as…

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Learn How to Drum Series: 6 Popular Drum Circle Rhythms

In today’s video we’re going to look at improving timing and build musical ear by piecing together a few hand drum, bass drum and hand held percussion rhythms. 

We talked about in the previous video, how some instruments have reoccurring rhythms. So for this video play-along I’ll play 6 popular drum circle rhythms for each instrument, to help build your confidence and knowledge. 

Firstly let’s look at some popular drum rhythms. And then…

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Welcome back to our series Learn How to Drum

We’ve already covered some simple hand drum rhythms, the different pitch drums, the bass line of a drum circle and drumming ensemble and how to tune your drums. 

In today’s video we’re going to look at 3 ways you can build your rhythm skills to help take your playing to the next level. So let’s dive in. 

When building your rhythm skills take a look at how to play percussion and the rhythms that are played by playing these instruments. 

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Learn low pitch drums and increase your rhythm awareness

In the last video we talked about simple hand drum rhythms to develop dialog and why it’s important to have different pitched drums. 

Over the years I have heard people say they want to be able play a musical instrument but feel that they’re not musical. 

Well this series will help give you the tools to build your musical awareness and develop your rhythmical skills so you can play along to music. 

So if you haven’t checked out the last video…

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Today I’m starting a multi series of Lean How To Play Drums

What I’m going to do over the next 6 videos is show how

• Simple rhythms can help to get you playing music straight away. 
• How combination of rhythms can improve your listening skills which will dramatically get you playing in time. So you can build the confidence to play along with other people. 
• Break the myth you have to be a musician to create music and getting you more musically in tune. 
• Learn to create a more musical…

Are you looking for more djembe rhythms to learn?

I was rummaging through my video archives and found my African drumming video I created for my djembe students. So I thought I’ll send it out to the wider world so you can benefit and learn more African drumming rhythms. 

This video features West African rhythm called Kuku. It has two fun djembe rhythms with a Kuku break. Notice how the feel of the rhythms change when played at a quicker tempo.

Kuku djembe rhythm one

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Are you a school teacher, music teacher or community leader looking for simple rhythms for your classroom, community drum circle or for your kids drumming classes?  

Keep it simple  

If you're a trained percussionist and drum teacher you know many complex rhythms, phrases and odd times. I have to admit when I’m listening to music that’s really cool, sitting in-the-pocket and funky, such as Joss Stone and I hear the drummer play the simplest fill, I get goose bumps. Sometimes the simplest rhythms can make…

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Guided Meditation For Some Relaxation… Did you know that regular meditation can boost your creativity?

There are so many benefits to meditating. I’ve been learning so much lately about how to record and produce music, it’s been so much fun and so interesting. I can put this learning spurt to deep meditation and a great teacher. So this has really got me thinking, what other skills can I develop? …Anyway one thing at a time…maybe.

For this guided meditation I spent five days recording, mixing and…

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The Making of OM Meditation

Lately I’ve been getting into more and more recording at my small studio, where I’m learning so much. Just this last two weeks I have finally had some time to set up my new upgraded microphone and preamp. Wow what a difference it makes when you have good gear. Everything is more articulate and colourful.

I didn’t have a plan when I started this track, a clean slate as they say. I just wanted to create and record with my new gear. I found myself dipping into Tibetan singing…

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Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park What can I say about Uluru, Anangu land…just AMAZING! What a magical place full of beauty, culture, colour and energy.

This trip to Uluru has reawakened my love and connection to the earth. I grew up with nature all around me and this trip has ignited my love of the land. But of course this is Uluru, so the energy of this magic land is so palpable. Did you know Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is internationally recognised as a World Heritage Area for both cultural and natural…

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Join in with Group Drumming Musicality!

I’ve been on a creative spurt as you can tell by posting a few more blog posts and creating more drumming videos recently. It’s been lots of fun, learning how to use cameras, recording equipment and producing the overall sound quality.

Is it really about drumming?

I was asked to run a community drum circle event at one of my local yoga studios. I spent some time talking with the yoga instructor to find out what she wanted from the session. What she was really…

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Meditation Music for the Spirit Are you looking for more peace of mind? Wanting more calm and relaxation in your life?

I wanted to share with you how meditation has changed my life in such a positive way. Since I’ve been running sound baths I’ve really grown to appreciate the healing of sound and music. So I have created free meditation video series to help bring more calmness and peace of mind. Too often, quality of thoughts and over thinking can make a huge impact on our decisions which over flow in…

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Drumming for stress relief

There are a, abundance of wonderful and interesting musical instruments that you could use for drum circles, it’s not limited to drums only. I created this song to showcase just how wonderful percussion instruments are when you add them with drums. I really love to add a variety of hand held percussion instruments to the mix. As you can see from this video that you can create a beautiful dialog between participants. I added harmony and melody to add another dimension to the…

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Sound Healing Instruments That Reduce Stress

I thought I’d create a short video of some of the instruments I bring to my Positive Music sound baths. It was a lot of fun putting the video together and recording the beautiful instruments. In this video you can see and hear three different Tibetan singing bowls, medicine drum, big white crystal bowl and the sweet sound of the native flute.

If you’re interested in more free meditation music check out my guided meditation video called Breathe.

Thank you…

A fun Way to De-Stress and Connect to Your Rhythm

Drumming together (drum circle or drum jam) can be so much fun, but sometimes it can be a challenge to make it to a drum class or community gatherings. I thought, wouldn’t it be great to have something you can listen, watch and drum along to…. anytime. I created this video for you to help build your rhythm skills, release some stress and just have some fun jamming along to music.

As you can see and hear in this video (this was my first attempt at…

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