Hey Everyone! When I was younger, I remember seeing Horacio's performance from the 2000 Modern Drummer Festival (I believe) and there was one groove that just floored me! I said to myself, "One day I will be able to play that." After years of coordination studies, and listening to Horacio,...

Fantastic job, Carlito!! Very good content, professional delivery and overall enjoyable to watch. Kudos to you, and thank you for sharing with us! Speaking of sharing, I'll be sharing that on my forum.... Keep them videos coming, pal! Nice job! Cool that you break it down in chunks. The V-Drums see...

Hey HOD family!! Hope all is well!!! Here's a NEW DRUM LESSON! Need a new fill for your arsenal? Check out the "Spice Rack" Fill! ENJOY and the PDF file is under the description file of the video. Have an awesome day http://youtu.be/MAtiwFjyWcs Juan "Carlito" Mendoza http://www.c...

gretsch-o-rama wrote:Yeah no problem. I was simply commenting on how your "depth" of playing was more apparent than a lot of the other guys....Peace

Gotcha brother!!! Thanks a lot I really appreciate your words my man! KIT!!

Cool man. I've always dug your playing as I felt you were a more 'artful' player to come out of the Drum off camp. These are the kinds of exercises that make sense to me, too.... Thanks man. I really appreciate it. The Drum Off was just a contest and while I am honored that I "won" it (no...

Cool - with direct musical application! Exactly!! I really do not like learning things if I can't apply them musically. That's the goals with the lessons I present on YouTube and my website. I want to show concepts/ideas that can be put into a musical context! Thanks for checking it out Andrew!!! C...

Nice work Juan. That's really put together well. Thanks brother!!! Really appreciate it! Hey man! That was great. Good lesson and absolutely killer drumming. Thanks Will! Really appreciate it! I had to upload the PDF again. Here is the corrected version!!! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/423406...

Here's the link! Sorry about that!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAbAqx-5ck

Hey HOD family! I hope all is well with you! I just wanted to share something with you. Are you looking for something to work on? CHECK THIS OUT!! Definitely, not easy, but I guarantee that it will help open up not only your independence, but also your ears. Good luck and post up your practice sessi...

I just saw Chris with Pino and D'Angelo here in London. It was really rather good... ^^^^(Understatement)^^^^ Man that has to be killer! I live very close to NYC and can usually catch him with Robert Glasper and the Chris Dave Trio, but to see/hear him play with Pino has to be killer!! Pino is defi...