Looking For A New Challenge? Try Open-Handed Playing!

 Let's get rid of one of the most common misconceptions when it comes to playing drums: Playing the hi-hat with your left hand is NOT only for left handed drummers! By simply swapping your hands while playing grooves and fills you can strengthen your independence and enhance your technical abilities regarding your weak hand. Without learning any new figures and patterns you will achieve a huge boost for your drumming vocabulary without even noticing it. Playing open-handed also opens up new ... more

Warm-Up With Our Community's Favorite Exercises

 We asked you, the ArtOfDrumming community, to send us videos explaining your personal favorite warm-up exercises and were blown away by the variety of routines you came up with and the love some of you put into creating some videos for us. Now we have put together a course containing five of your favorite warm-up routines for everyone to check out. This is something very special since it's the first time members of the ArtOfDrumming family have had the chance to become active teachers on our ... more

Have you found your perfect pair yet?

 Drum sticks are a drummer’s connection with the instrument. Finding your perfect stick model and having the right sticks for certain musical scenarios is super important for your playing feel and your drum sound. The stick you choose will not only change how your cymbals and drumheads react to you playing but also determine which playing techniques work best and how you feel when hitting the drums. To give you an overview of the most important differences between drum stick models we put ... more

Start Working On Your Technique Today

 No matter if you want to check out cool new grooves, work on fill-in ideas or simply play to your favorite music, your technical abilities set the boundaries of what can and what you can not play. This is why you should work on this topic regularly. Your playing technique in general is the foundation of everything you want to play. The way you hit the drums, the way you hold your sticks and basically every motion of your sticks is defined by the technique you use.   A great setting to work ... more

Gospel Style Drumming with Eric Moore

 Gospel Chops have become an essential part of drum solos, shed sessions and the arrangements of large mainstream productions. It is hard to imagine modern drum set playing without these fast and impressive figures. But where does this style stem from and what is behind the breathtaking licks? Eric Moore received international recognition for this exact style of playing. He is about to take you on a journey to the roots of Gospel Drumming. Those are to be found in the christian African-American ... more

"Jazz Drumming"-Courses with jazz icon John Riley

 Jazz is considered as one of the supreme disciplines in music and jazz musicians are regarded as the "crème de la crème". That reputation of Jazz can be discouraging to many musicians. The prejudice that Jazz musicians exclusively belong to the elite prevents many of them from giving it a try. In our new course series about Jazz drumming with John Riley we show you that you can approach Jazz like any other genre through consistent practice. Step by step John explains the basics ... more

The famous "Moeller Technique" with Claus Hessler

 The "Moeller Technique" is a stick technique named after Sanford Augustus "Gus" Moeller. Moeller was an American drummer and educator for 50 years until his death in 1960. But although the technique is named after him, he is not the inventor of it. He observed military drummers because he admired the way they played their snares at military events for hours without getting exhausted. He analyzed their playing technique and discovered that the players used the physics of the sticks by utilizing ... more

World Percussion Courses

 The history of percussion instruments dates back to several millennia. The first percussion instruments were simple – anything that could be slapped on to create a tone. By definition a percussion instrument consists of a sonorous corpus. Shaking or beating creates vibrations which in turn produce sounds with specific or unspecific tones. You will find percussion instruments in all geographical regions and in every society of the world. They play a big role in traditions and cultures and ... more
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