Free Resources | Brighton Drum School

A small selection of completely free introductory Styles Focus drum lessons introducing The Blues, Reggae, and Metal. Each video has bit of background to the style, some cool grooves to learn along with some key artists and drummers to check out. Pat put these together for NATAL Drums and went to shoot them at the Marshall Studios in Milton Keynes. There are more of these and a wealth of other free educational content on his YouTube channel, which you can find here

One of the many educational articles Pat has written for various periodicals and websites. This is an old article from the iconic Rhythm Magazine focusing on developing

turn arounds for Drum and Bass & Jungle styles.

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This is a free play-along track and PDF chapter for a track called Ditto from Pats book, 'Lawless'. The book is available from Pat's website, and the original album is available on all streaming platforms, including Spotify here

'Ditto'Pat Garvey

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Here's a link to a podcast interview Pat did with the guys over at Drum and Drummer. Pat discuss teaching, learning, working as a pro, practice & lots of other things with Ben & George. Link

Free hand exercises: These make for great developmental exercises for the hands, they also make for great chop builders, they work really well around the kit for fills, licks & solo ideas and all of them can be integrated really nicely into different grooves and patterns. Feel free to get in touch if you're not sure about anything.

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