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View Gospel Lick inspired by Brent Easton

This fill was inspired by something I saw Brent Easton do in a video on YouTube. Read More…

View My Favourite Gerald Heyward Fill In

I love playing this Gerald Heyward fill! Read More…

View Warming up and testing my new Camera

Sorry I haven’t posted a video for a while. I now have a much better camera at last and a copy of Adobe Premiere for editing them a bit more professionally. Read More…

View Gospel Chops / Jazz Fusion Drum Warmup

Just warming up while I have a gap between students. Read More…

View More Gospel Rim Click Tricks

Here’s a few grooves inspired by Chris Dave and George Spanky McCurdy. Read More…

View “Spanky” Style Drum Lick

Here’s a clip of me playing a lick inspired by George “Spanky” McCurdy. Check him out if you have not already, he and Chris Dave have to be some of the most inventive drummers I’ve ever seen! Read More…

As Ive been getting a lot of requests for this, I though I would post some sheet music for my Gospel Lick videos that I posted in May last year. I had no idea this lick would be so popular, thanks for all the kind comments folks. Read More…

View Warming up on an even more battered old kit

The kit I’m playing has sadly seen better days. Its the nastiest kit at work and its in dire need of some new skins. All the nicer kits were already in use so I thought I would warm up on this one until the one I usually practice on was free. But hey, a bad workman blames his tools. I’m attempting to make a good sound on this kit, despite its faults, guess I like a challenge lol! I find kits like this help me make an even better sound when I get to play my nice Yamaha/Zildjian. Read More…

Please check out my free video drum lessons the under construction page of this web site or on my new YouTube Channel.

I’m calling them teaser videos as the quality of my camera phone is nothing to write home about. I will be getting a new camera soon and possibly filming a DVD to go along with the book I’m writing. Read More…

View Crazy Gospel Fill

Here’s a cool gospel fill Ive been working on. Ive tried to slow it down as much as possible. Have fun! Read More…