Ninja Drummist - Free Drum Lessons

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It occurred to me the other day that I have posted many clips of the simpler, more groove based side to my playing. Playing crazy fills, drum n bass beats, tricks and technique displays are great fun and very tempting but its the pocket that your audience are dancing to in most gigging situations. I've earned more money playing pocket than I ever have showing off my skills.

I just set the click to quarter notes at 108BPM, plugged it into my Vic Firth silencer headphones (highly recommend these) and started playing.

This clip, like most of my playing, is inspired by my love of Gospel music and the Church. I have been a Christian most of my life and have been enjoying the wonder that is Gospel Music since I was 17. Thankfully, this gave me a head start in learning the Gospel Drumming style before the hugely deserved publicity it has received recently from great web sites like www.gospelchops.com.

I mostly play a lot of Funk, Fusion, Jazz, Ska and Reggae be it with my main band, or in session work and you would be surprised just how many other musical genres this awesome style of drumming works with. I encourage drummers to not only take inspiration from the crazy fills that gospel drummers play but also from the solid and powerful pocket and technique they achieve when just playing grooves.

I thought I would add an audio clip of my band - New Groove Formation playing our song "Love Is Funky" over the end credits.

The kit I'm playing has sadly seen better days. Its the practice/teaching kit at work and its in dire need of some new skins. But hey, a bad workman blames his tools.

Please excuse the video quality. High quality videos now available via the link below...

6 Responses to “Just grooving... [LQ]”

• hottmattms12 says:

  July 3, 2009 at 3:40 pm

  smooth and Clean man! (via YouTube)
• frankaxtell says:

  June 29, 2009 at 1:18 pm

  Hi Lewis, I really dig the groove you're laying down here, very inspiring. Keep up the excellent work my friend. :) FA (via YouTube)
• LulekTheDrummer says:

  June 29, 2009 at 11:47 am

  thank you for what you do! you're a great drummer and huge inspiration to me! thanks for sending me links to your videos on youtube,cause accidentally just before watching them I had a little crisis connected with my drumming and-here it is-a great prompter in form of your drumming! thanks! I want to continue to learn! New Groove Formation is great! cool grooves! [get some HD quality digital camera that works well with low-freqs [in case you upload a video with a d'n'b jam with a bassist] thx :) (via YouTube)
• shamanlei78 says:

  June 28, 2009 at 2:48 pm

  man i cant stop listening to ur grooves, they are outta this world.......... so much inspiration Yeh....Yeh ENCORE....ENCORE!!!! =D Great Stuff cant stop listening to the beats and loops =D (via YouTube)
• AbreValas says:

  June 27, 2009 at 7:21 pm

  FUCK YEAH!!! awesome groove :) just love it. In less than a month I will be starting to study funk by myself. I was thinking of using Rick Latham's book advanced funk studies. Would you advise me to use this book or follow another way for doing it? What funk and gospel bands do you listen to? awesome chops and most importantly, groove :) (via YouTube)
• shamanlei78 says:

  June 27, 2009 at 6:41 pm

  awesome, great stuff good hands. (via YouTube)

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