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…
Deconstructing Sarvalaghu Grooves On Drums
This lesson delves deeper into Sarvalaghu: the rhythmic essence of Carnatic (South Indian) drumming. Picking up where we left off, the content of this lesson…
Swiss Rudiments & X-Tuplets Inside Polyrhythms
This month’s live meeting expands on the content covered in the previous one, so consider checking that one out first!This time it is some Swiss…
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…
Drumset Applications of Material from Rudimental Piece “Arabi”
Yet another lesson concerning Swiss Rudimental Ideas. This time the main focus is finding ways to apply these typical patterns to the drumset in a…
“Blushda” Revisited | Collapsed Lesson 25
This live lesson focuses entirely on the “Blushda”: a hybrid rudiment whose origin is commonly traced back to Tony Williams. This rudiment can be considered…
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…