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Basics Series

1) Stick Technique & Grip
2) What Is Drum Notation
3) How To Play Bass Drums

4) Basic Drumkit Co-ordination
5) Correct Posture
6) Warming Up

7) Glossary Of Drum Terms
8) Basic 1/4 Note Beat
9) Tuning

Counting / Playing Rhythms & Rests

9) Quarter Notes
10) 8th Notes
11) 16th Notes

12) 32nd Notes
13) Triplets (8th Note Triplets)
14) 16th Note Triplets (Sextuplets)

15) 1/4, 8th, 16th, 32nd Note Rests
16) Triplet & Sextuplet Rests

Rock Series

17) Basic 1/4 Note Beats
18) Basic 8th Note Beats
19) Busier Rock Beats

20) Basic Rock Fills
21) Busier Rock Fills
22) Complex Rock Beats

23) 16th Note Beats
24) How To Swing Any Beat
25) Big Tom Fills

Jazz Series

26) Basic Jazz Cymbal Beat
27) Building The Jazz Beat
28) The Jazz Shuffle

29) Basic New Orleans
30) Basic Jazz Fills
31) Jazz Snare Independence

32) Bass Drum Independence
33) Brush Strokes

Latin & Funk Series

34) Clave Rhythms
35) Simple Sambas
36) Snare Drum Sambas

37) Salsa / Songo
38) Free Floating Drums
39) 6/8 Afro Cuban

40) Funk - 2 Sound Level Concept
41) Funk - Paradiddle Beats
42) Funk - Half Time Funk Shuffle
* Funky Cowbell Beats New!

Drum Solo Ideas & Double Bass Drumming

43) Using 6's In Fills
44) Using 8's In Fills

45) Advanced Drumkit Patterns
46) Basic Double Bass

47) Double Bass Beats

40 Rudiments Series (3-in-1 & alternate view options, FLV streaming only)
(names taken from PASIC definitions http://www.pas.org/Resources/rudiments/rudiments.html)

ROLL RUDIMENTS

48) Single Stroke Roll
49) Single Stroke 4
50) Single Stroke 7

MULTIPLE BOUNCE RUDIMENTS

51) Multiple Bounce Roll
52) Triple Stroke Roll

DOUBLE STROKE OPEN ROLL

53) Double Stroke Open Roll
54) Five Stroke Roll
55) Six Stroke Roll
56) Seven Stroke Roll
57) Nine Stroke Roll
58) Ten Stroke Roll
59) Eleven Stroke Roll
60) Thirteen Stroke Roll
61) Fifteen Stroke Roll
62) Seventeen Stroke Roll

DIDDLE RUDIMENTS

63) Single Parradiddle
64) Double Parradiddle
65) Triple Parradiddle
66) Single Parradiddle-Diddle

FLAM RUDIMENTS

67) Flam
68) Flam Accent
69) Flam Tap
70) Flamacue
71) Flam Parradiddle
72) Single Flammed Mill
73) Flam ParradiddleDiddle
74) Pataflafla
75) Swiss Army Triplet
76) Inverted Flam Tap
77) Flam Drag

DRAG RUDIMENTS

78) Drag
79) Single Drag Tap
80) Double Drag Tap
81) Lesson 25
82) Single Dragadiddle
83) Drag Parradiddle 1
84) Drag Parradiddle 2
85) Single Ratamacue
86) Double Ratamacue
87) Triple Ratamacue

"Minus Drums" MP3 Playalong Tracks

78) Heavy Rock
79) Funk

80) Salsa
81) Bebop Jazz

Big Drum Ezine Back Issues..

2006 ISSUES

82) Jan 1, 2006 - "Fool In The Rain" and Funk Shuffles
83) April 1, 2006 - Funk Beats Using Cow Bells
84) May 1, 2006 - Roaring Latin Beats

2007 ISSUES

85) July 2, 2007 - Polyrhythmic Beats Inside Beats
86) July 1, 2007 - Airto Moreira Latin Beat
87) April 1, 2007 - Cross Over Tom Fills
88) March 2, 2007 - Dead Even Double Strokes
89) Feb 2, 2007 - Patterns Of 5 Within Triplets

2008 ISSUES

90) Feb 1 - Gospel Double Time Beats - filmed on the beach
91) Feb 2 - Linear Beats Introduction
92) March 1 - Metric Modulations - 8ths over Triplets
93) March 2 - Turning Polyrhythms Into Beats
94) April 1 - Beat Displacements
95) May 1 - Rock Beats using 16th accents and 32nd drags
96) May 2 - Using patterns of 3 inside 16ths as rock fills
97) June 1 - 32nd Note Grooves using the Single Parradiddle
98) July 1 - The Transperency of beats
99) August 1 - Rudiments Around The Kit
100) August 2 - 7 fills from 1 sticking pattern
101) September 1 - The Flam Parradiddle as a hip funk fill
102) September 2 - The problem with some rudiments
103) October 1 - Combining odd units to form cross phrase fills
104) October 2 - The Blushda Workshop - from RATK DVD
105) November 1 - Latin flams, playing flams in a latin context
106) November 2 - Ezybeats from the RATK DVD

2009 ISSUES

107) Jan - Using Moeller & Push-Pull Within Beats
108) Feb 1 - Thinking In Rhythm Layers
* Feb 2 - Crotchet Triplets Around The Kit In 4's New!
* March 1 - The Drum Quiz Show In Action! New!
* April 1 - The Worldwide Drummer Search 09 winners New!
* Jack Bennett Gear Setup New!
* April 2 - Playing 5's Over Metric Modulation Beats New!
* May 1 - Fast 32nd Note Fills Using a 6 Pattern New!
* June 1 - Using The Hihat Chick As A Ghost Note New!
* The Drumming Body DVD Preview New!

Advanced Lessons

Taken from "Funk & Illusion Drumming" 5 DVD set
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109) What Is Linear Drumming?
110) Basic Linear Triplet Units
111) Metric Modulations Intro & Basic Beat
112) How Do Polyrhythms Work?

Taken from "100 Years Of Drumming" 2 DVD set
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113) Early Rock: The Surfy Beat
114) Modern Rock: Drum 'n' Bass
115) Modern Jazz: Looser Phrasing
116) Modern Jazz: Swiss Army Triplet Application No 3

Taken from "Rudiments Around The Kit" 12 DVD set
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117) Adding Doubles To Singles
118) Permutations Of The Paradiddle Diddle
119) Combining Odd Units PART 1
120) Combining Odd Units PART 2
121) The Blushda Workshop - All 10 Blushdas Recap