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Our Drum Kit Courses & Masterclasses
1. Drum Beat Basics: Beginner drums
2. Bass Drum Fun: Develop unique spins
3. Beginning Solo Drums: Be YOU, play along and learn how to create easy solo drum patterns
4. Fills on Drums & Initial pro techniques
5. Pro Drum Beat Pattern play-alongs
Our Drum Courses in Detail
THE MAESTRO ONLINE
Drum Kit Masterclasses
- Drum Basic Beats
- Fills on Drums and Pro Techniques
- Multi-Style Drum Beat Pattern Play-Alongs
Magesh Magesh is a legendary drummer.
Magesh has taught music for over 25 years. He worked as a session musician for Rhianna, Lionel Richie, Ricky Martin, Chris Brown, Nelly Furtado, The Pussycat Dolls, Kimbra and Vernon Reid from Living colour.
He has given clinics on music education for the Roland corporation, Tama drums, Vic Firth sticks and Sabian cymbals. In the year 2000 he was named one of the ‘Top 20 Millennium drummers’ by Drum scene magazine. Magesh is currently teaching students online from all over the world, including for The Maestro Online.
Drum Beat Basics
This course will cover the following areas:
- Introduction
- Holding the Sticks
- Single Stroke Roll
- Double Stroke Roll
- Basic Beat
- Basic Beat Singing
- Basic Beat with 2 Snares & Singing the Beat Part 2
- Basic Beat with Multiple Bass Drums & We Will Rock You
- Basic Beat in 4/4 Time & Billy Jean
- Quarter Note Rests
- Eighth Note Rests & Paradise City
- Using a Metronome
- Conclusion
Fills on Drums and Pro Techniques
This course will cover the following areas:
- Contents
- Playing a Groove with a Fill
- Quarter & Eighth Notes in a Fill
- Introducing 16th Notes
- 16th Note Drum Fill
- Mixed Subdivision Drum Fill
- Another Mixed Subdivision Fill
- Medium Advanced Groove: Off Beats on the Snare
- Advanced Groove: Off Beat Snare Groove in 4/4 & Hard to Handle (Otis Redding)
- 16th Beats Off-beat on the Snare
- Co-ordination Exercises
- Co-ordination Exercise in a Groove
- Eighth Note Triplets
- Sixteenth Notes on the Hi-Hat
- Swing V Straight
- The Rim Click
- The Rim Shot
- Ghost Notes
- Conclusion
Drum Beat Pattern Play-Alongs
This course will cover the following areas:
- Play Along Intro & Practising
- Rock Play Along 2
- Rock Play Along 2
- Rock Play Along 3
- Rock Play Along 4
- Funk Play Along 1
- Funk Play Along 2
- Funk Play Along 3
- Funk Play Along 4
- Triplets Intro & Triplet Play Along 1
- Triplets Play Along 2
- Triplet Play Along 3
- Triplet Play Along 4
- Shuffle Intro & Shuffle Play Along 1
- Shuffle Play Along 2
- Intro & Half-time Shuffle Play Along
- Intro & Implied Shuffle Play Along
- 16th Notes Play Along
- 16 Notes Play Along 2
- Three Funky 16th Notes Examples
- Conclusion
THE MAESTRO ONLINE
Creative Drumming Courses where You become YOU
Dr Paul Francis – Drummer Extraordinaire and Lead UK Music Educator
Paul is an experienced musician, composer, producer and leading educator in the UK with international credits. His work has included sessions, tours, radio, TV, lecture halls and so much more. The educational element of Paul’s interests particularly focuses on Higher Instrumental Popular Music Education which he terms, HIPME.
His academic posts have included
- Course Director, BMus Popular Music Performance at at Access to Music/Birmingham City University.
- Principal Drumkit and Ensemble Studies Lecturer at University of Huddersfield,UK.
- Course Leader at BIMM Institute, Manchester, UK.