Description
Get more ideas, play with more freedom, and have a whole lot more fun behind the drums.
“I’d been playing jazz for a while, but I felt like I’d hit a wall. These lessons helped connect so many things I’d been struggling with. What I really like is that the lessons are practical and musical, not just a bunch of exercises. I feel so much better prepared to actually play with other musicians. There’s a ton of material here, and I keep coming back to it.”
— Frank D.
Break Out of the Same Old Patterns
Jazz Drumming Creativity & Freedom is designed to help you expand your vocabulary, develop more independence and discover just how much you can say on the drums.
If you ever feel like you’re playing the same fills, the same patterns or running out of ideas when it’s time to solo, these lessons will give you practical ways to open up your playing.
You’ll learn how to create better fills and solos, play Brazilian and Latin Jazz grooves, develop greater coordination, play fast Swing with less tension, get more creative with your hi-hat and confidently read Jazz drum charts.
The goal is simple: give you more musical choices and the freedom to use them.
You’ll Learn How To
- Create musical drum fills instead of relying on the same patterns
- Develop endless ideas for drum solos
- Trade fours and eights with confidence
- Build chorus, open, vamp and arrangement solos
- Use space, repetition, dynamics and call-and-response
- Develop greater four-limb independence
- Move smoothly between grooves and fills
- Play Bossa Nova, Samba and Baião
- Play essential Afro-Cuban and Latin Jazz grooves
- Understand and play clave-based rhythms
- Play fast Swing with better technique and less tension
- Build ride cymbal speed and endurance
- Create musical hi-hat fills, sounds and textures
- Read and follow Jazz drum charts
- Stay oriented in the song form
- Connect what you play to the other musicians
No-Stress Soloing
Drum soloing doesn’t have to mean sitting behind the kit wondering what to play next.
The Jazz Drum Soloing lessons give you practical tools for creating musical solos using space, repetition, dynamics, accents, syncopation, call-and-response, articulation, pitch and contrast.
You’ll discover ways to generate ideas from Bebop phrasing, motives, rudiments, grooves, song melodies and even ideas played by the soloist and rhythm section.
Then you’ll put those concepts to work trading fours and eights and creating chorus solos, open solos, vamp solos and arrangement solos.
The goal isn’t to memorize a solo. It’s to give you enough ideas that you can create your own.
Make Your Drum Fills More Musical
Jazz Drum Fills gives you a huge vocabulary of sticking patterns using paradiddles, rolls, flams, single strokes, triplets and other combinations. But learning the sticking is only the beginning.
You’ll learn how to tripletize, straighten and displace patterns, move them around the drum kit, connect different feels and create fills of different lengths.
Most importantly, you’ll learn how to move naturally from the groove into a fill and back again while keeping the music feeling good.
Brazilian Jazz Drumming
Learn the essential Brazilian rhythms every Jazz drummer should know.
The Brazilian Jazz Drumming lessons take you through Bossa Nova, Samba, Partido Alto, Baião and other Brazilian concepts while developing the coordination and technique needed to make them feel natural.
You’ll work with hi-hat and ride cymbal grooves, snare independence, bass drum and hi-hat technique, phrasing, fills, hand drumming and different ways to orchestrate Brazilian rhythms around the kit.
You’ll also learn one of the most important skills of all: how to choose the right rhythm for the music.
Latin Jazz Drumming
Build a practical vocabulary of essential Latin Jazz grooves and learn how to connect them to the music.
In Latin Jazz Drumming you’ll explore Son and Rumba clave, Mambo, Cha-Cha-Cha, Guaguancó, Songo, Bolero, Mozambique, Bembé and Afro-Cuban grooves.
The included Sound Check playing tests let you immediately put the rhythms into practice, while the performance examples show you how they sound in a real musical setting.
You’ll also learn how to choose the correct clave, create fills and move beyond simply memorizing patterns to actually playing the music.
Play Fast Swing Without Fighting the Ride Cymbal
Fast Jazz doesn’t have to mean tightening up and hanging on for dear life. Fast Jazz Ride Cymbal teaches you technique and six flexible ride cymbal patterns designed to help you play faster while staying relaxed.
You’ll work on speed, endurance, hi-hat coordination and ride cymbal melodies with focused exercises and workouts. The goal is to help your ride cymbal feel relaxed, confident and swinging at any tempo.
Develop More Independence
Greater independence gives you more choices behind the drum kit. Jazz Drum Independence uses eight powerful coordination patterns to develop greater freedom between your hands and feet.
Instead of independence just for the sake of independence, you’ll work toward using that coordination to make your Jazz drumming more flexible, responsive and musical.
Make Your Hi-Hat Another Musical Voice
Your hi-hat can do a whole lot more than just play beats 2 and 4. Jazz Drumming Hi-Hat shows you how to use five musical fill patterns along with fanning, different sounds and textures to bring more personality to your playing.
In Jazz Drumming Hi-Hat, you’ll learn how to combine the patterns and work them naturally into the music, giving you another expressive voice on the drum kit.
Play Jazz Drum Charts With Confidence
A drum chart should help you play the music—not make you nervous about what’s coming next. Playing Drum Charts (Reading Drum Sheet Music) takes the anxiety out of reading Jazz drum sheet music by showing you how to understand the musical road map and turn what’s written on the page into actual music.
You’ll learn how to navigate song forms, pickup notes, intros, changing feels and other common situations so you can spend less time staring at the page and more time listening to the band.
These Lessons Are For You If:
- You feel like you keep playing the same fills, patterns and soloing ideas
- You want more creative ideas without just memorizing more exercises
- You want to feel confident soloing and trading fours
- You want your drum fills to flow naturally with the music
- You want stronger coordination and independence
- You want to play Brazilian and Latin Jazz styles with confidence
- You want to play fast Swing without getting tense
- You want to get more creative with your hi-hat
- You want to feel comfortable reading Jazz drum charts
- You want more vocabulary, more freedom and more ways to express your own musical personality
If you’re ready to break out of the same old patterns and discover more of your own voice on the drums, these lessons will give you tons of ideas and practical tools to help you do it.
More ideas. More confidence. More freedom to play what you hear.
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Instructor: Von Baron
Level: Intermediate – Advanced
What’s Included
Jazz Drumming Creativity & Freedom includes 8 complete Jazz drumming courses:
- Jazz Drum Independence
- Latin Jazz Drumming
- Brazilian Jazz Drumming
- Jazz Drum Fills
- Jazz Drum Soloing
- Fast Jazz Ride Cymbal
- Jazz Drumming Hi-Hat
- Playing Jazz Drum Sheet Music
Here’s What’s Inside
- Drum Lesson Videos: 25 hours
- Drum Lessons: 133
- Instructor Playing Examples: 36+
- Sound Check Playing Tests: 10
- Drum Practice Tracks: 64
- Lesson PDFs: 72+ pages/downloads
- PDF Drum Charts (Drum Sheet Music): 8
- Drum Solo Practice Videos: 2
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