Robb Ryan
Drum lessons designed to make you a better player! Basic to advanced concepts are explored, including rudimental drumming around the drum kit, hand development and the "Patterns" series by Gary Chaffee.
Learn grooves, fills, solo ideas, polyrhythms, metric modulation and musical styles.
Robb Ryan is a master educator, a lifetime student of the drum set having taken private lessons from age 6 (35 years ago..yikes!), he has had the opportunity to study with some of Canada's premiere instructors including Mark Rogers, Kevin Dempsey, Roger Flock, Rick Gratton, and Vito Reza. Robb specializes in the "Patterns" series by Gary Chaffee, using sticking patterns, linear phrases, odd note groupings and polyrhythms in an effortless and musical manner.
Robb is a decorated drumset educator, having been featured on drumeo.com, 180drums.com, loscabosdrumsticks.com and with Canadian Musician Magazine.
He endorses and is a clinician for Mapex Drums, Dream Cymbals and Los Cabos Drumsticks.
Beginner Jazz Drums - How to use Syncopation episode #4 Long and short notes for melodic comping
George Way Acacia 20/12/14
Short Drum Solo in Gretsch Renown’s and Dream Cymbals
How to use Syncopation- filling in the 8ths
How to use Syncopation episode #3
How to use Syncopation - episode #2 Triplet chops builder
How to use Ted Reed’s Syncopation - Episode #1 jazz basics
Gary Chaffee Rhythm and Meters - Etude 1 over an ostinato (drum lesson)
Chaffee’s Rhythm and Meter Etude played with linear pattern
Drum Solo - using Gary Chaffee concepts