The Secret Weapons of Anika Nilles Drumming
This online meeting is a proper deep dive into Anika Nilles’ drumming, philosophies, approaches to practicing and playing, discipline, compositional processes and more. And who…
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Improvisation Tools For Building a Drum Solo
Learning to craft expressive solos that really tell a story can be daunting. This lesson offers an approach of theme & variation that may help…
Phrasing Across the Barline
This lesson has something in it for drummers of all levels in terms of playing fills across the barline. Besides being an opportunity for some…
Signature Drum Licks – part 1
In this practice session, we take a look at some patterns based on polyrhythms, and how to apply them to the drumset in multiple creative…
Develop Your Internal Pulse – Spoken Rhythms in 5 Beats
For any musician, but particularly us drummers, understanding and keeping track of time is essential for finding flow within your sound. When looking to strengthen…
Deconstructing Sarvalaghu Grooves
Sarvalaghu, as in, Smooth Groove! In this lesson Claudio Spieler runs through some typical flowing rhythmic patterns in the Carnatic drumming tradition, which are often…
Odd Rolls and Xtuplets Inside Polyrhythms – Creative Ideas?
A first step into some rhythmic craziness from Claus: using odd rolls and Xtuplets inside polyrhthyms. This lesson covers the possibilities of using odd rolls…
Mixed Meters
In this lesson Anika takes you through several pad exercises to work on your odd groupings. Starting off with single and double stroke rolls through…
An Updated Version of the „Rudimental Ritual“
Alan Dawson’s famous ‘Rudimental Ritual’ has a wealth of useful benefits to be taken from it. In this lesson Claus shares some ideas on how…
Groups of 4 Ideas
In this live lesson Anika gives you a glimpse into the many concepts included in her course ‘The Power of Groupings’ here on Open Minded…