Dave Elitch Drum Lick Lesson

What is up everyone? Welcome back into the Drum Central channel. I am, as ever, Dave Major and we're going to break down a Dave Elick's Thunder Chop today. Which, although it sounds absolutely manic and he is like a powerhouse drummer, I really dig his style, it's two really simple ideas that he's obviously got loads of mileage out of. So, grab the pdf, print it out and let's get started. The main crux of this lick is a paradiddle diddle with a little bit of an added sort of bonus. A paradiddle diddle, if you don't know, is onomatopoeic, which means it sounds like it is. Paradiddle diddle. Right, left, right, right, left. We're going to tag on a kick, right, left, kick. And that's going to be the main part of our chop. We're going to play it in 16th notes, which is one e and a, two e and a. And the first bar and the second bar, they are the same. So there's only three bars to learn and there's only two little parts. I do like to find those patterns within certain chops and let's learn them, learn what I can do with them, then the pattern of the chop that I'm trying to learn becomes way easier. So, paradiddle diddle. The first paradiddle diddle we're going to play, we're going to take those two singles, the right, left, and we're going to play them right on the snare drum, left on the tom-tom with the four doubles, or the right, right, left, left, coming back down on the snare drum. So that sounds like this. We're then going to tag on our kick, right, left, kick, which is going to go kick, tom, tom, kick. And then another paradiddle diddle going tom, snare, snare, snare, snare, snare. That's the first and second bar. Let's check it out. Now what we do then is in bar three, we take that paradiddle diddle, we chuck it onto the tom, we go floor tom, tom, snare, snare, snare, snare. Then we go the same thing that we had at the start, which is snare, tom, snare, snare, snare, snare. Then we've got that kick, right, left, kick, which is going to be kick, first tom, first tom, kick. Let's try that. Finally, in bar four, we're going to play our paradiddle diddle, paradiddle diddle. Then we're going to go right, left, we've tagged on a little bit, something a bit new, right, left, right, left, left, right, left up there. Coming back down, right, left, right, right, left, left, right, left. That sounds like this. One E and a two E and a three E and a four E. So let's try all those parts, no metronome, see how we get on. There we go. Doesn't sound much there, but once we ramp up the tempo, it starts to really kick. So let's try it at 80 beats a minute. And now let's try it at 110 beats a minute. And finally, at a usable tempo of 140. Now let me just chuck it up to the tempo that I demonstrated at the start, which is kind of close to where Davey Litch plays it. Obviously, you can push it as far as you want, but I kind of like it at 140 to 160, and we're going to play it at 175. So just have it at all different tempos for all different situations. So there we go. We have a thundershop, which can be played slow and sound really tasteful and soft or super aggressive and just sound like a flurry of notes. It's up to you how you use these things and have the rudiments at your disposal at a variety of different tempos, and then you can use them. I hope you guys dug this lesson. Please do hit subscribe and share with your friends, and I'll catch you next time.