Pat explores more ways to incorporate toms inside a groove, ala Vinnie, or Gadd.

These original fills are real cool and challenging, with orchestrations written into the 6 examples

Many great drummers have added toms inside a groove to add richness and a percussive element to the song. In this lesson, Pat give you 4 great examples he created, plus a cool solo at the beginning using toms in a musical way

In this lesson, Pat teaches some essential 16th note bass drum grooves everyone should be able to play

This is a classic Freddie Hubbard tune that Pat teaches and provides some other great groove options

Another great tune, which utilizes toms.

In Part 2, Pat will cover the 7/8 section, and provide some variations.

This great Jeff Porcaro created amazing parts to this killer instrumental. The groove is very challenging. This lesson covers Part 1 of the song

A great groove by Jeff Porcaro that utilizes toms quite a bit.

This legendary groove is broken down and talked about at length

James Gadson laying it down!

This legendary Rap song from Run DMC is one of the first programmed drum machine grooves. BUT here is how you play it on a real kit!

A Classic groove, filled with 16th note deliciousness!

On this Fat Tuesday, Pat plays a great Meters song, "Talk Bout New Orleans"

Pat breaks down the Look a Py Py groove and creates some very interesting variations.

This lesson may have a few audio breaks unfortunately but you will get the hang of what it is...

A great groove by Zig Modeliste, that shows how to play "in the cracks" between straight and swing.

Pat selects 3 of his favorite lessons to review.

Pat breaks down this ground breaking groove!