10 breakfast snare drum exercises - phonetic rhythms

Here we are going to use 5 breakfast rhythms in various combinations to make up the 10 exercises for the snare drum. We use the words phonetically to help play the rhythms.

• TEA (One quarter note
• COFFEE (Two 8th notes)
• SAUSAGES (Two 16th notes and an 8th note)
• EGG&BACON (Four 16th notes)
• BLUE BERRIES (One 8th note and two 16th notes)

These beginners snare drum exercises will help to read and play basic rhythm groupings.