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Rockschool Drum Technique - Advanced (Grades 6-8)
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Rockschool Drum Technique - Advanced (Grades 6-8)

Paul Elliott

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Duration46m
Modules10
LevelAdvanced
LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (0h 46m)

About this course

These advanced technique lessons build the control that Grades 6 to 8 demand, whether you're sitting the exam or simply raising the level of your playing.

They're led by drum educator Paul Elliott, whose students include Phil Selway (Radiohead), Mick Avory (The Kinks), Ash Soan (Adele) and Jason Cooper (The Cure).

Across the course Paul covers:

  • flams, drags and ruffs, and what comes after them
  • stroke rolls and their variations
  • linear drumming
  • getting creative with rudiments

He also shows you how to practise each technique, with demonstrations of the technical requirements for Grades 6, 7 and 8. It's a thorough resource for any advanced student or teacher wanting sharper technique for the practice room, the exam, or the stage.

Who it's for

  • Drummers preparing for Rockschool Grades 6 to 8
  • Intermediate players ready to refine technique seriously
  • Self-taught drummers closing gaps before advanced exams

What you'll learn

  • Execute clean flams, drags, ruffs and stroke rolls
  • Apply linear patterns and rudiments around the kit
  • Perform the technical requirements for Grades 6 to 8

What you'll need

  • A drum kit or practice pad and sticks
  • A metronome and somewhere you can play
  • A few minutes most days, focused and consistent

Meet the Guru

Paul Elliott

Meet the Guru

Paul Elliott

Paul Elliott is a respected drum educator and clinician whose students hold top gigs across the industry, including drummers for Kylie Minogue (Tom Meadows), Ricky Martin (Laura Fares) and The Cure (Jason Cooper). He has shared clinic stages with Steve Smith, Manu Katché, Simon Phillips and Gary Husband, and his own playing career included work with Frank Gambale, Guthrie Govan and Shaun Baxter. Drummers such as Phil Selway (Radiohead) and Ash Soan (Adele) come to him for technical advice. In his courses he works through the technical requirements grade by grade, demonstrating each rudiment and explaining not just how to play it but what mastering it lets you do on the kit.

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RSL Awards

RSL Awards (Rockschool) is a UK awarding body specialising in contemporary music, with graded syllabuses for guitar, drums and piano developed over decades. MusicGurus partners with Rockschool to provide video guides and practice sheet music for their grade books, taught by professional musicians - many of whom played on the original performances and backing tracks recorded at Abbey Road and Real World Studios.

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