Hi Everybody welcome to my page thanks for stopping by! my name is James Dennett I am a drummer and drum teacher from the central coast NSW Australia. I am 24 years old and have been playing for nearly
10 years, I have my own home drum studio which I also teach out of "James Dennett School Of Drumming". I play and record with a number of bands and artists from the coast/newcastle to sydney. Music is my life and I have an appreciation for all genres of music, Although having
a love for playing Fusion/funk jazz and progressive rock music my main goal is to always try to play all styles of music to ensure that I am comfortable with any musical or recording situation I am put into to.
What you are hearing is a series of exercises that have been taken from my
yet to be completed book. I have basically put together a bunch of random fun exercises split into four categories. FILLS, EXERCISES, GROOVES and DOUBLE BASS DRUM. A lot of the patterns have an 1/8 note beat prior to the exercise to give you a feel of using the exercise as a fill for example.
From my teaching experience I have always found that giving my students a chance to hear what there exercises sound like around the drums, various
tempo's and correct dynamic consistency usually helps them with the motivation to want to really learn and work hard to accomplish the exercise. I know we all at some stage or another have looked at the
dots on the page and thought how will I ever use this or I will never be able to master this! so I always encourage to be as creative as you can be with what is given to you and always remember that the speed is not the important thing, it's the eveness, timing, accuracy and so forth you should be striving for.
I often tell my students that sometimes doubt there technical or speed ability that in my opinion the drummer or any musician for that matter with nice even technique, solid timing and a great feel will always prevail over the crazy soloist with awesome speed and technical ability but lack
of timing, maturity and feel for the music. I feel that guys like Colaiuta, weckl and Gadd for example really have all the chops and flashiness which we all love but most importantly they also have the ability to play a nice even solid groove with loads of feel that we would all love to have, I think thats what makes them the masters they are. We can learn so much from these guys!
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