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13 November 2007
Paradiddle Exercises courtesy of Dr. John Wooton

We are planning for our 2007 Cuba program.
Programs in Brasil and Puerto Rico for 2008.
Please email me for more information.

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I teach many students, individually, by DVD.
I can produce lessons for you as well.
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Introduction to My Lessons Quicktime Real Video
Learning Pagode in Brasil Quicktime
(2.2 mb) up		 Real Video

Timbale Lessons

 Quicktime Real Video
Conga Lessons Quicktime Real Video
"Salsa" Drum Set Groove Quicktime Real Video
Candombe Funk Groove Quicktime Real Video

Poncho Sanchez
Conga CookBook

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AfroCaribbean
Drumset Grooves

Examples Here
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Hey Friends, it's been a while!

Please do check out John Wooton's book, The Drummer's Rudimental Reference Book.
It's an excellent book for developing your hands __and__ feet.

Currently, my students and I are working
on the Paradiddles section of the book. It's really great!

Here's a wonderful exercise from Dr. Wooton's book. You are just playing single paradiddles, but each measure has you playing accents on each subsequent 16th note.

drumming

This is really such a good exercise. Try it, please, both feet with the metronome. With the "correct" instruction, you'll find that this exercise really works on developing accents in different ways. If you look at this with the idea of working on your up and down motions, you'll find a lot of great work here.

 

Please drop me a line to let me know your comments and questions.

As Always, Enjoy!

 

Please do write to me at chuck@chucksilverman.com
with any comments!

 

Much thanks to Sibelius software for assisting me with these lessons! A very easy and intuitive program for
music notation and much more.

 
 

 
 
Mike Clark Fill Roll Speed/Endurance Paradiddles from John Wooton Melodic Coordination Continued Mozambique  
Mozambique Application 2 Hand Exercise Triplet Groupings.6 Triplet Groupings.9 Triplet Groupings.10
Latin 101 Clave with Diddles Brasil-Diddles Chad Smith Groove Rock Steady
Bernard Purdie 		Mozambique Sticking
Purdie Reggae Just Paradiddles Coordinated Independence.1 Coordinated Independence.2 6*8 Inspired Patterns 6*8 Inspired Fills
Continuing Coordination Continuing Coordination 5 Continuing Coordination 6 Basic Groove Review 2 Continuing Coordination 7 Paradiddle-Diddle Ex
Hip Hop Independence


Beginning Ghost Notes

Jazz Independence Jazz Independence 2 Musical Ride Patterns
Samba de Angola Steve Jordan
Tre Cool 		Brief Review 16th Grooves Bernard Purdie-Serious Groove
Drum Essentials Cuban Drumming Primer Mo' Songo
Essential Ghost Notes 		Samba 4 Drumset
Samba Snare Pattern Dbl. Handed Samba Essential Groove Candombe Groove Latin Funk.1 LatinFunk.2
Playing Clave Drum Set Grooves Clave Drum Set Grooves. 2

Advanced Coordination Exercise

Matanzas
Catá
Cascara Hand Exercise #2 What Should You Learn? MI Lesson
Mozambique
Cascara Application #3 Singles Exercise
Songo Basic2 Songo Basic3 Rumba from
Havana 		Rumba from
Matanzas		 Maracas Applications Cascara Hand Exercise
Hand WarmUps Double Bass Workout Three Sixteen Hand Exer.

Five Four
Hand Exer.

 Columbia from Matanzas Basic Songo
Samba Reggae Memphis Soul Stew Paradiddle Pyramid Baião Rhythm Clave Warmups
Ostinato Ex. More Double Bass Abakwa for Drum Set Cuban Drum Grooves Abakwa Drums Poncho's Mambo
Partido Alto Partido Alto + Hand Exercises

Manny Oquendo
Legendary
Musician

How to Make Transitions

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Transition
Information

 Basic Samba

Musical Odd Note Groupings using
Triplets.

More Musical Odd Note Groupings using
Triplets.		 Interesting Sticking Ideas New York Style Mozambique MI Class New Ride Pattern

Candombe Hand Exercise

Lombardo
Lesson
#1

 

Lombardo Lesson
#2

Groovin' Independence

 Basic Brasilian Rhythms Double Bass Cowbell Lessons
Latin Hand Patterns Latin Rudiments 5 against 2 Hand Patterns Changuito Melodic Independence Cascara Funk Lesson FunkyTwist!
Make It Funky! More Brasilian Lessons Why You Drum! Articles of Independence Dave Lombardo Power Grooves lesson Candombe

Killer Timbale Solo

 Memphis Soul Stew Memphis Soul Stew.2 Palo Drum Set Lesson Palo Drum Set Lesson.2 Get That Funk Outta Here!!
Chachacha
for drum set

World Percussion
Class

Great Groove from Cuba

 Reading
Lesson
 
 

Thanks once again for visiting my lessons page, and for checking out the website. If I can be of any help to you, please drop me an email. And don't forget to check out the books, CDs, and videos available here. Thanks!

 
Chuck Silverman
P.O. Box 572962
Tarzana, CA 91357-2962
USA
Fax 818.884 8831

 
 
 

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