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View Single Stroke Roll Exercise (Finger Control)

Here is a great exercise for improving your speed, endurance and control. It will also help you create an even sound when playing singles using finger control. It isolates each hand in order to perfect the motion and leads with both the right and left hand. Read More…

View Accent Control (Combining Finger Control and Moeller Technique) Part 1

This exercise demonstrates a great way to combine finger control and moeller technique. While finger control is great for tap strokes, it lacks the accent power that moeller technique has. I developed this exercise to improve my ability to swap between these two techniques when playing fast accent patterns. Read More and Watch Part 2…

View Flam Accent, Cheese, Flam Drags and Flam Fives Exercise

Here’s a Flam control exercise I wrote featuring Flam Accents, Cheese, Flam Drags and Flam Fives. Read More…

View Paradiddle Exercise

This exercise is based on a Paradiddle Tree but it also includes an alternating Paradiddle-diddle at the end. I wrote this exercise to try to bring the other paradiddle variations up to the same level as the single paradiddle. Read More…

As some of you may have heard, I’m currently writing an instructional drum book. It has been a work in progress since I started teaching 7 years ago and Ive finally decided to get on and finish it. Read More…

View One Handed Roll (Push Pull Technique)

Here’s a very short video of the push-pull technique. The camera battery died . Read More…