Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials #87: Rideless Swing

The second edition of the best-selling original Groove Essentials™ features a DVD with 53 brand new grooves and over 100 variations for intermediate to advanced players! Students will learn the difference between ghost and grace notes (while being encouraged to experiment with both in all six groove "families") as well as important "go-to" grooves, like the Train and Bo-Diddley beats. For more advanced players and professionals, GE 2.0 introduces the concepts of groove construction, interpretation and manipulation- training drummers to think like musicians in order to maximize their full potential.

[@alisaiterkan]

He represents the best of the era in which I grew up, but he still sounds fresh. Such a clean, crisp, amazing player.

[@mikestevens5512]

Tommy is beyond amazing Rideless groove Sounds like a shuffle beat to me

[@simonstuart1325]

love tommy igoe .awesome player

[@robbyboy03]

Awesome lesson Tommy. Its like the left hand becomes the dominant and the right accentuates. I really like that you are trad grip so watching your sticking is very important to me. Cheers mate.

[@callummoodley6311]

That floor tom is SINGING

[@prithvirajagrawal6169]

AMAZING!

[@mlaugh3]

I liked that.................good job.

[@brennelson7844]

Classy Groove.😊

[@penunka]

Excellent

[@simonhoy7775]

Strong left hand!

[@markbra]

Nice one !

[@SpiritualAlien]

Great stuff Tommy! Although some people may say that your left hand shuffle feel could be construed as "riding" the snare, I certainly wouldn't! :O)

[@davidavery5114]

Nice rythm Tommy!🙂

[@TheLastRunners]

I just can’t wait to be king

[@trevormarshall8991]

Rockin. If you could break it down even more for the beginner drummers that would be great, thanks!

[@Manumanunitomidri]

cool...........

[@alexstewart966]

dank

[@ivanpetrov4206]

between straight and shuffle is "new orleans" feel

[@CarnivoreguyScott]

How do you play along to music like that with drums ? Is it an app on a iPad or phone hooked up to a loud Bluetooth speaker ? I want to try practicing like that .

[@GorcStew]

99% of the drummers in the story he told in intro would have answered "if you don't want to hear the drums why the fuck did you hire a drummer?" and stormed out.

He's so good I could spit.

[@ljoe7038]

New orleans drumming

[@tracktuary]

When you go faster, you must go traditional grip.