The Premise of 'Creative Grooves'

As a drummer you can differentiate yourself by creating grooves that are different from the mainstream patterns. Many remarkable grooves derive from often used rudiments like the paradiddle. In this clinic Juan will show you how you can analyse rudiments and use them differently. By playing them on your drums and cymbals and by using hands and feet, you get new can create unique grooves.

The Clinic Topics

1. The best way to study
   
2. Using basics to get into a creative flow
   
3. Groove composing

The one-hour clinic
Presenter host: Nico Verspaget, CEO & Co-founder Quadia Online Video.




Related downloads

• The slides with tips from the clinic
  
• Juan's drum setup
  
• Exercise with groupings using rudiments
  
• Warming up exercise with multiple rudiments with 16th triplets
  
• Microphone setup for drums
  
• Upcoming tour schedule with the Stef Burns League

More photos
Click here for the complete photo album of the clinic, including backstage images and information of the clinic.

Juan van Emmerloot's Setup
Paiste cymbals

• 15" hihat 602 Modern Essentials
  
• 22" Dark Energy Ride (prototype)
  
• 17" Traditional series Crash
  
• 18" Dark Energy Crash / 16" Masters Thin Crash (prototype)
  
• 18" Masters Thin Crash (prototype)
  
• 8" Twenty series Splash
  
• 8" Signature series Splash

Sonor drums

Sonor Beech Infinite Black (Special Limited Edition)

• 20x22" Bass drum
  
• 10x7" Tom
  
• 12x8" Tom
  
• 14x12" Floortom
  
• 16x14" Floortom
  
• 14x5" Snaredrum Steel (artist series)
  
• 12x2" Jungle Snare

Aquarian drumheads

• Bassdrum: Force I, Superkick I
  
• Toms: Response II (batter), Hi Frequency (resonant)
  
• Snare: Texture coated

Promark sticks

About music-clinics.com
Music-Clinics.com hosts clinics for all instruments. Live clinics will be available ondemand within a day after every live clinic. Scheduled for January 2016, is a clinic with American guitarist Stef Burns. Stef Burns was a member of the G3 with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. Amongst others he has recorded with Rock legends Y&T, and plays with Huey Lewis & The News and Italian mega star Vasco Rossi. While not recording or on tour, he travels through Italy and Europe with his Stef Burns League.

Quadia Online Video
Quadia is the company making Music-Clinics.com possible. The Dutch and German based broadcasting company specializes in online video applications and content for marketing & promotion, online sales, communication, customer services, e-learning and webcasting.

Quadia takes care of all the technology involved, concept creation and full video production. The online clinics are streamed live from Quadia Headquarters in Hilversum, The Netherlands.