Here is a great sounding lick that has many possibilities for you to create new ideas. I’ve already been messing with it starting from the PDF I’m offering to you; check it out here: Nasty Drum Lick #131
I’m definitely NOT giving you my new variations, but ONLY because I want you to make up some stuff of your own.
The great jazz trumpeter, Clark Terry, said: “Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate.” The heaviness of those three words is hard to overstate.
Steal a lick, learn it and then…the best part is to mess around with it and make up something new.
So, please, take all of the Nasty Drum Licks I post here, but promise me you’ll do something else cool with them, OK?
Make them your own.
That’s all for now. Stay safe and “Live Loud–Play Drums!”
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He first gained attention as one of the winners of Modern Drummer magazine's very first drum solo contest, judged by Rush's Neil Peart.
He's played with Oz Noy, Will Lee, Alison Krauss, Curtis Stigers, Emily Remler, Joel Hoekstra, GE Smith, Andy York, Marshall Crenshaw, Tony Shanahan, The Drifters, The Marvelettes, Big Brother and The Holding Company, and many other artists.
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