Here's a lesson devoted to just the kick drum. Especially in today's rock music the bass drum has been extremely important. The beat presented here is all about the kick. As you can see, there really isn't much to the rest of the beat.

Important info regarding drum hardware

The focus is on wooden parts of the drum: kick drum, snare, and toms

Your first steps towards acoustic percussive guitar: learn the basics for an effective percussive groove.

Learn some kick ass riffing and soloing in the style of Loudness guitarist, Akira Takasaki.

This is my usual approach when composing a solo - building up the tension slowly and kick in with something unexpected for the listener. That's what I call "climax in a solo".

Here's a lesson for you to expand your skill on the drums. I've used a simple guitar riff to help explain how to shift the kick around to different places, as well as add ghost notes on the snare.

This lesson is a rhythm guitar study for your right hand in a pop/rock style. The idea is that rhythm acoustic guitar mimic with accents the rhythm and the feel of the drum mixing in one part the three main elements: Bass Kick, snare and hi-hat, creating an accompaniment that it's really "in the pocket"

Rhythm patterns using a crunch sound! This type of playing is often used in a pop-rock context. The strumming is quite similar to the drum rhythm. With your right hand you can play lower strings while the drum is playing the kick drum, and you can play higher strings for the snare drum.