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Drumming Worksheets & Drills (150+ pieces of content)

Drum Corps Warm-Up Drills
Drum Speak Basics
Structured Learning Levels 1 - 5
Misc
Other tools (46:06)
Personal Routines
Roll Movements
Rudiment Development

Guest Interviews

Mike Cole, World Class Bass Player (42:41)
Gavin Noade, World Champion Drummer (Feb 2021) (45:31)
Jori Chisholm discusses Ensemble (January 2021) (43:41)
Andrew Womersley (Nov 2020) (39:41)
Blake Schmidt, World Champion Tenor Drummer (Oct 2020) (71:35)
World Online Solo Championships Judges Q&A (73:08)
Owner of Andante: Nigel Hodgen (September 2020) (44:35)
Chris Pollock - 8 Time World Champion Bass Drummer from Field Marshal Montgomery (Feb 1st, 2020) (61:48)
Michael Jenkins, Leading Drummer of the Canterbury Caledonian Pipe Band (Jul 31st, 2020) (29:26)
Stu Warmington, Manager at the British Drum Co (Jun 27th, 2020) (57:24)
Arthur Cook: World Solo Champion (May 2020) (40:56)
Gordon Craig (RSPBA Adjudicator) ( Apr 29th, 2020) (44:29)
Jori Chisholm - 3 Time World Champion from SFU Pipe Band (Feb 28th, 2020) (51:23)
Steven Shedden (Dec 2019) (25:26)
Gareth McLees, Runner-Up at the World Solos (Nov 2019) (56:18)
Jori Chisholm (World Champion Bagpiper) discusses Strathspey and 6/8 Phrasing (35:46)
Glenn Kvidahl, Former LD of LA Scots & drummer at Shotts (October 2019) (41:26)
Tyler Fry (Sept 2019) (58:39)
Jim Kilpatrick (August 2019) (58:30)
Joe Noble, World Champion drummer (57:09)

LIVE PRACTICAL SESSIONS 2023

Inner Circle: Singles Breakdown with Sebastian Potgieter (35:44)
Inner Circle: Exercises For Speed and Control with Patrick Moran (27:27)
Inner Circle: Reading Musical Patterns with Dave Coleman (26:04)
Inner Circle: Stick Tricks with Sebastian Potgieter (30:00)
Inner Circle: Using Your Body Naturally and Effectively with Patrick Moran (33:31)
Inner Circle: Technique Builders with James Laughlin (25:46)
Inner Circle: Principles For Effective Practise with Patrick Moran (23:23)
Inner Circle: Pataflala with James Laughlin (26:51)
Inner Circle: Stick Control Essentials with Sebastian Potgieter (39:21)
Inner Circle: Hornpipe Score and Breakdown with Tim Sellars (30:19)
Inner Circle: Advanced Paradiddles with Sebastian Potgieter (27:28)
Inner Circle: Warming Up And Settling In The Drum Corps Before A Major Performance with Dave Coleman (30:14)
Inner Circle: Roll Quality with Dynamics with Patrick Moran (24:53)
Inner Circle: Setting Your Drum_Pad Position with Patrick Moran (25:12)
Inner Circle: Developing the Reverse Paradiddle with James Laughlin (34:27)
Inner Circle: The Dornoch Links with Dave Coleman (38:49)
Inner Circle: Phrase Dynamics with Sebastian Potgieter (28:25)
Inner Circle: Reel Phrase Workout with Tim Sellars (31:12)
Inner Circle: Regaining Focus in your Performances with Dave Coleman (32:52)
Inner Circle: John McColls March to Kilbowie Cottage with Paddy Moran (36:56)
Inner Circle: The Secret to the Drag with James Laughlin (33:19)
Inner Circle: More finger dexterity ideas; practice sessions and building control with Tim Sellars (31:49)
Inner Circle: , 5. Swiss triplets; Exercises from volume 2 and some personal warm ups combos with Tim Sellars (35:46)
Inner Circle: O'er the Bows to Ballindalloch Strathspey Score with Dave Coleman (31:38)
Inner Circle: How to play more precisely with James Laughlin (27:55)
Inner Circle: Fun and Effective Concepts and Techniques with Patrick Moran (33:34)
Inner Circle: Strengthening Your Fulcrim Point with Patrick Moran (22:39)
Inner Circle: Building Finger Dexterity with James Laughlin (34:33)
Inner Circle: Redcoat Reel Chips with David Coleman (32:54)
Inner Circle: The Drag with Sebastian Potgieter (24:26)
Inner Circle: 5 Stroke Roll Development with James Laughlin (31:47)

Q&A Replays 2023

Inner Circle: September Q&A 2023 (26:24)
Inner Circle: Q&A August 2023 (32:53)
Inner Circle: August Q&A (37:16)
Inner Circle: Q&A May 2023 (37:01)
Inner Circle: How to improve the short roll and Q&A with James Laughlin (33:45)
Inner circle Q&A January 2023 (32:23)

LIVE PRACTICAL SESSIONS 2022

Inner Circle: Sebastian Tune Instructional - Lochanside (32:16)
Inner Circle: Throw and Catch with James Laughlin (33:10)
Inner Circle: Patrick Moran - December 18th - Learning Music Quickly and Effectively (15:40)
Inner Circle: Tim Sellars, December 7th, Inner Circle: My personal warm up routine; what I do and ideas for you! (35:51)
Inner Circle: Dave Coleman - Nov 22 - Intentional Practice (37:21)
Inner Circle: 5 Stroke Rolls-Sebastian Potgieter (24:44)
Inner Circle: Doubles Routine and Subdivisions (22:37)
Inner Circle: Flam Rolls with James (24:08)
Inner Circle: Paddy Moran - November 1st - Staple Execution Exercises (17:05)
Dave Coleman Oct 26 Inner Circle Session - Strathspey Expression (31:48)
Inner Circle: Tim Sellars, October 19th, Windmills and the fun you can have (33:32)
Inner Circle: How and where to Execute a Soft Flam with James Laughlin (36:02)
2022 09 28 IC Coleman Session (33:33)
Paddy Moran, September 23rd, Execution Exercises and Integrating the Voice (26:06)
Tim Sellars September 17th, Unlocking the FlaFla; game changing way to think of it (33:52)
Unlocking the Flam Double with James Laughlin (24:43)
Tim Sellars, September 2nd, Finger Control; technique and rudiment application (39:56)
10 August 2022 Roll Dynamics with Sebastian Potgieter (30:29)
Patrick Moran (17.8.22) Old School Warm Ups (29:10)
The Four Stroke Ruff (30:40)
Doubles Development Pg 58 Vol 2 (24:29)
The Power of 4 (28:46)
Alex Duthart Flam Taps (35:18)
Ultimate Sticking Challenge (23:39)
Smoother Flam Subdivisions (30:14)
Single Strokes to Embellishment (27:51)
The Paradiddle and Five Stroke Combo (41:06)
The Drag Swiss Triplet (37:37)
The Drag Triplet (29:10)
The Inverted Paradiddle (26:43)
How to play expression in your rolls (41:27)
Windmills within a Phrase (38:25)
Three Types of Accent (37:58)
The Fla Fla Breakthrough (43:24)
Flam to Tap Roll (28:52)
Drag to Tap Roll (23:22)
How to Avoid Crushing an Accented Paradiddle Run (25:42)
Accented Triplets to Single 5 combinations (32:55)
Flam 5s in two idioms (27:31)
Five Stroke Versus Four Stroke (30:24)
Swiss Ruff: Say it, Display it, Play it. (28:31)
Moeller (35:43)
Ratamacue Triplet (27:54)
Developing Right Hand Finger Speed (100:21)
Developing Left Hand Finger Technique (32:50)
Combining Left and Right Technique (22:25)
Singles in Speys and Jigs (31:17)
How to play through the drum (34:47)
Put more meat in your roll (29:38)
Playing Nimble (34:13)

Q&A Replays 2022

Inner Circle with Tim Sellars: March 15th, Phrase Workouts; Strathspey #1 (32:57)
Inner Circle October Q&A (29:17)
Inner Circle with James: Rebuilding Your Closed Drag (59:12)
Inner Circle August 2022 Q&A (42:57)
Tuning (49:01)
Honing Your Focus, and Changing Heads (31:27)
How to Significantly Improve your Drumming (31:37)
How to Distinguish Tune Types (36:23)
How to integrate Snare, Bass and Tenor at practice (21:02)
Balancing Rudiment Execution with Playing in a Musical Flow State (41:19)
How to compose Unisons (57:25)
How to read rolls (31:44)
Tenor Voicing and Building Resilience (50:07)
Hot Seat: Mary Wallace (26:18)
How to compose a slow air (28:54)
Building Your Confidence as a player (39:09)
Continuous Rolls Q&A (30:29)
Which drum is best? (35:54)
Discussing Judging Sheets (33:04)
Post Covid Challenges (23:51)
Pipe Band Trends (35:08)
Resilience (24:28)
Critiquing a pipe band performance (51:26)
Metronome or Not? (24:08)

Composition

Old Wife of the Milldust Hornpipe (Grade 3) (39:11)
Liberton Pipe Band Grade 4/3 (31:00)
The Bloody Fields of Flanders G4 (36:33)
The Old Rustic Bridge (Grade 4b) (45:16)
Dornoch Links (Grade 4b) (66:16)
Donald MacLean Grade 2 Jig (54:38)
Arniston Castle Grade 3 Level (First Half) (59:28)
Arniston Castle Grade 3 Level (Second Half) (53:10)
Pirates of the Caribbean Grade 5 (72:52)
Susan McLeod Grade 4 Level (75:05)
The Silver Spear Reel Grade 2 Bucksburn & District (54:51)
Kennedys Favourite Grade 2 Reel (72:08)
Molly On The Shore (Gr 4 2/2 Reel) (22:33)
Alick C McGregor (Gr 3 or Grade 2 Reel) (63:22)
Donald MacLean of Lewis (Grade 2 or 1 6/8 March) (62:08)
Glasgow Of the Big Shops (Grade 4b) (43:04)

LIVE Sessions 2021

Reactivating Finger Speed (65:06)
Embellished singles (48:04)
Paradiddle Combos at Speed (37:12)
Doubles to Singles (34:18)
Open 5 and 7 Strokes (24:18)
Rolls to singles Transitions (44:09)
Paradiddlediddle Versus Paraparadiddle (32:44)
Single Stroke Combinations (41:09)
Double Sub-Divisions in Rounded Reels (28:53)
Fast Track Your Four Strokes (27:58)
The Paradiddle Reset Part 2 (38:55)
How to Develop Single 5s Consistency (31:06)
Doubles in Triplet Form (29:00)
Drumming Quickstart Guide (41:07)
How to Improve Your Short 5 Stroke Rolls (36:15)
Singles: 4's and 6's (36:27)
The Paradiddle Reset Part 1 (32:51)
Flam Ratamacue Triplets (23:13)
How to Improve Your Hand Speed (55:10)
Flam Triplets (49:44)
The Fundamentals of Busking in Jig Time
Navigating MSR Transitions (34:56)
Accented Paradiddle Troubleshooting (39:32)
Execution Exercises (35:03)
Paratriplets (32:08)
Independent Finger Conditioning (43:26)
Flam Taps, Tap Flams and Flam Doubles (29:22)
Bringing a Strathspey or Jig to Life (48:57)
Four Stroke Rolls - Both Ways (34:39)
Flam to Swiss Ruff (39:41)
The Ratamacue (49:30)
Advanced sub-divided triplets (31:55)
Developing Balance across both hands (61:32)
Left Hand Traditional Grip Deconstruction (49:11)
Level Up Your Right Hand (50:49)
Continuous Rolls/Tap Rolls (41:15)
Paradiddle-diddles & ParaParaDiddles (36:39)
Level Up Your Paradiddle (29:08)
Drag Triplets (30:10)
Traditional Ruffs and Swiss Ruffs (37:24)
Fives in a dot/cut rhythmic grid (31:24)
Open Flam Rolls (26:45)
The Drag Shortcut (26:10)
Swiss Ruffs to Singles (24:08)

Q&As 2021

Piping and Drumming Integration (29:07)
The 10 Things a Solo Judge is Listening For (46:40)
How to Select Optimal Tempos (47:19)
Improve Your Percussion Memory (24:00)
How to Tune a Bottom Head (63:02)
Metronome Masterclass (52:18)
9 Ways to Fulfill Your Drumming Potential (33:41)
Hot Seat: Daniel Dossey (34:22)
How to Maximise Your Drum Corps Practice (42:03)
10 Things Pipers Should Know About Drummers (33:09)
Hot Seat: Bruce MacKay (35:00)
Hot Seat: Greg MacDonald (47:52)
Overcoming Nerves & Composition Thoughts (48:49)
Hot Seat: Rob Perry (31:18)
Self Evaluation Leads to Self Mastery (33:18)
Practice Priorities & Left Hand ring finger review (19:04)
Hope for a better tomorrow (25:56)
Q&A on rudiment clarification (22:06)
Recruitment & Retention (56:14)
Hot Seat: Craig McFadyen (28:45)
Hot Seat:Daron Peters (36:09)
How to Warm-Up the Whole Drum Corps (35:12)
How to Read Rolls in Strathspeys (58:57)
Dealing with Different Skill Levels at Practice (46:05)

Alex Duthart Drum Salute

Page 1 Videos (29:03)
Page 2 Videos (20:22)
Snare & Tenor PDFs
MP3 of Computerised Drum
Guideline for Recording the Fanfare

2020 Drumming Masterclasses: Each is designed to help you master a specific skill

Flam Rolls, Drag 5s, Flam 5s, Dead Stroke Development (Jan 9th, 2020) (55:32)
Live Session (Jan 16th, 2020) (51:41)
Swiss Triplets, Helping people get over mindset, Drum Speak (Jan 23rd, 2020) (49:39)
Live Session Feb 6th, 2020) (47:24)
The 3 Pillars of Pipe Band Drumming, and Composition Challenge (Feb 14th, 2020) (45:25)
Roll execution - transitions from rolls to singles (Feb 18th, 2020) (46:12)
Thumb Technique, score writing and composition, tuning drums. (Mar 5th, 2020) (43:26)
Chris Myles Masterclass (Mar 14th, 2020) (27:51)
Paradiddle Session (Mar 17th, 2020) (38:17)
Live Q&A (Mar 20th, 2020) (32:19)
LIVE Windmill Session (Apr 7th, 2020) (48:41)
Developing Wrist and Finger Stamina through Triples, Sixes and 12s (Apr 14th, 2020) (39:13)
Flam rolls! (Apr 22nd, 2020) (45:58)
Writing unisons, memorising, & bass and tenor scoring basics Q&A (Apr 24th, 2020) (69:11)
Paradiddle LIVE session (Apr 28th, 2020) (40:27)
Live Session (May 6th, 2020) (46:56)
Swiss Ruffs! (May 13th, 2020) (44:13)
Live Q&A (May 15th, 2020) (54:07)
Drag Five Execution (May 28th, 2020) (41:11)
Live Q&A (May 29th, 2020) (46:03)
Triplet Rolls (Jun 2nd, 2020) (37:38)
Live Q&A (Jun 6th, 2020) (39:03)
The Essential Warm Up Drills (Jun 10th, 2020) (39:16)
Live Q&A (Jun 12th, 2020) (55:19)
Developing the Fla Fla (Jun 16th, 2020) (45:50)
Live Q&A (Jun 20th, 2020) (66:07)
Singles in Dance Idioms (Jun 24th, 2020) (42:45)
Open Roll Development (Jun 29th, 2020) (37:15)
Live Session (Jul 3rd, 2020) (60:04)
Deep dive into the Swiss Ruff (Jul 7th, 2020) (42:50)
Live Q&A (Jul 10th, 2020) (51:03)
Subdivisions - essential for Snare, Bass and Tenor (Jul 14th, 2020) (51:00)
Burnout, Equipment Selection, tuning etc (Jul 18th, 2020) (38:54)
Traditional Riffs (Jul 22nd, 2020) (33:44)
Live Session (Jul 25th, 2020) (52:16)
Doubling Down on Doubles (Jul 27th, 2020) (42:09)
The PushPull Technique (Aug 3rd, 2020) (33:14)
Roll Dynamics (Aug 11th, 2020) (37:41)
The Stick Breathing Technique (Aug 15th, 2020) (23:52)
The truth about playing 6/8 Marches (Aug 19th, 2020) (38:31)
An extra LIVE session this week on 6/8 March playing (30:24)
Q&A 22nd august 2020 (35:25)
Mastering Correct Deadstroke Technique (August 2020) (38:16)
Drag Execution Development (Sept 3rd, 2020) (35:26)
Q&A - Run-Through on How to Use the New Portal (September 5th, 2020) (39:14)
Developing Rolls to Singles (Sept 10th, 2020) (32:53)
Q&A - September 12th 2020 (56:47)
Badass Technique Builder, September 16th 2020 (36:39)
Q&A September 20th 2020 (55:15)
The Pataflafla Deep-dive (38:16)
Q&A September 26th 2020 (44:26)
Flam Roll Development Sept 28th 2020 (26:40)
Flamadiddle Exercises (October 4th 2020) (27:51)
Subdivided Flam Phrases (October 13th 2020) (27:17)
Q&A: Motivation and Inspiration (October 17th 2020) (45:12)
How to execute dot and cut 4 stroke rolls. (October 20th 2020) (26:09)
Q&A October 23rd 2020 (47:37)
Long 4 stroke roll Versus Short 4 Stroke Roll (October 26th 2020) (29:24)
Flam 5s: Dance versus March Idiom (47:40)
Q&A November 7th 2020 (32:27)
Open Rolls November 10th 2020 (32:55)
Q&A November 12th 2020 (25:00)
BackSticking November 18th 2020 (36:06)
Continuous Rolls, Nov 23rd 2020 (37:43)
Developing RH Finger Technique Dec 2020 (34:46)
Q&A Dec 4th 2020 (61:51)
The Ultimate Control Exercises

Short Drumming Tutorials

JL Lesson 1 - Holding the Sticks (4:17)
JL Lesson 2 - Stay Relaxed (3:17)
JL Lesson 3 - Accented Singles (6:40)
JL Lesson 4 - Stick Control (5:15)
JL Lesson 5 - Doubles (6:15)
JL Lesson 7 - Triplets (4:36)
JL Lesson 8 - Paradiddle (5:03)
JL Lesson 9 Flam (4:15)
JL Lesson 10 - Flam Triplet (2:56)
JL Lesson 11 - Flam Double (3:40)
JL Lesson 12 Flamadiddle (2:25)
JL Lesson 13 - Multiple Bounce (3:40)
JL Lesson 14 - Buzz (5:08)
JL Lesson 15- Five stroke (4:39)
JL Lesson 16 - Seven stroke roll (3:24)
JL Lesson 17 - Nine Stroke Roll (2:27)
JL Lesson 18 - Thirteen Stroke Roll (2:10)
JL Lesson 19 - Dot Cut Singles (4:31)
JL Lesson 20 - Dot Cut Paradiddle (3:42)
JL Lesson 21- Dot Cut Triplet (2:28)
JL Lesson 22 - The Long Five Stroke Roll (5:00)
JL Lesson 23 - Single Fives (7:06)
JL Lesson 24 - Single Sixes (2:52)
JL Lesson 25 - Triplet to flam (3:04)
JL Lesson 26 - The Dead Stroke (4:00)
JL Lesson 27 - The Drag (3:12)
JL Lesson 28 - Flam Five (2:46)
JL Lesson 29 - Drag Five (3:10)
JL Lesson 30 - Tap Rolls (1:29)
JL Lesson 31 - Four Stroke Roll (3:54)
JL Lesson 32 - Six Stroke Roll (2:33)
JL Lesson 33 - Eight Stroke Roll (1:34)
JL Lesson 34 - Twelve Stroke Roll (2:06)

Guide to Drumming (Vol. 1)

James Laughlin's Guide to Pipe Band Snare Drumming -The Essentials Volume 1
01 Guide to Snare Drumming - The Essentials Page 19
02 Guide to Snare Drumming - The Essentials Page 20
03 Guide to Snare Drumming - The Essentials Page 21
04 Guide to Snare Drumming - The Essentials Page 22
05 Guide to Snare Drumming - The Essentials Page 23
06 Guide to Snare Drumming - The Essentials Page 24
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08 Guide to Snare Drumming - The Essentials Page 26
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11 Guide to Snare Drumming - The Essentials Page 29
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Guide to Drumming (Vol. 2)

Drum Score Collection - Grade 1 & 2

Drum Score Collection - Grade 3 & 4

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