Sheet 2 – Drum Warm Up Exercises for Beginners

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This beginners drum warm-up exercise includes easy drum beats with quarter note ride cymbals. The quarter note ride cymbal drum beats start off sparsely, like they are not complete drum beats, and then build into more of a basic beat with a kick-snare-kick-snare rhythm. The drum warm up then finishes with a fully formed drum fill, which tries to stay easy at the same time as being mildly challenging and musically interesting.

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Sheet 1 – Drum Warm Up Exercises for Beginners

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This 10 bar warm up sheet is for beginner drummers to learn and practice with at the start of a drum lesson or at the start of a practice routine. Once the sheet has been roughly learned, the drummer should try to play all of the way through the sheet in one go. No repeats are neccesary unless you want to.

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Sheet 3 – Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners to Early Intermediate

This drum warm up sheet continues on from Sheet 2 by developing the paradiddle-diddle theme on the final exercise. Before that, we work on a marhing snare or practice pad style exercise, and then move onto an accent based triplet snare pattern and then the drum groove too, in the style of Hold The Line by Toto, which is featured in RSL Grade 5 drums 2018 sylabus.

If you would like a PDF copy of this please visit Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners to Early Intermediate.

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Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners – Sheet 1

Advanced beginners drum warm up exercises for use in drum lessons, or for starting a practice or learning sessions.

Advanced beginners drum warm up exercises for use in drum lessons, or for starting a practice or learning sessions.

This is the first sheet in a collection of drum warm up exercises that will be made into a pdf ebook. You can use and print the main image on this website for educational use, or you also have the option of purchasing a PDF copy of Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners – Sheet 1.

In the sheet there is a snare drum rhythm exercise that has be made to sound good when repeated. Drummers should aim to increase the speed once comfortable with the rhythms. Likewise for the other exercises too. Start off slow and build up confidence and ability before going fast.

The flams exercise should be played by playing R L R L on all 8th notes, which is why one of the flams is played with the left hand playing the louder part of the flam, because it’s on one of the off-beat 8th notes. The second bar could be played R L R L or the 8th notes could be changed into paradiddles, meaning the second flam would be played with the left hand on the stronger note. Left handers will need to do the opposite to all of this.

The swing beat could easily be made harder but this could be the first time some drummers have been introduced to it so I’ve kept it fairly simple. The 8th notes are to be played with swing on the ride cymbals. If you don’ know what that means, have a listen to The Pink Panther theme tune and listen to the ride cymbals.

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Drum Lesson Warm Up – 6th Jan 2026

Drum lesson warm up for advanced beginners and early intermediate levels.

Since posting this, I have focussed on creating an ebook with similar content, so the title has changed a little bit and it’s now the 2nd exercise sheet of the book. You can use the image on here and print it if needed, or you can also purchase PDF of Sheet 2 – Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners to Early Intermediate.

This Drum lesson warm up for advanced beginners and early intermediate levels is a summary of some of the exercises I worked on today with my students. This will probably be of use to any drummers wanting some original exercises to work on as part of a drum lesson or to self learn.

There are two exercises with sextuplets, accents and the use of a paradiddle-diddle (RLRRLL).

There are exercises based on one drum beat with examples of how you can develop it.

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Introductory Exercises – Early Intermediate Drum Book

This is a free pdf download for the 5 page introductory section of the ebook ‘Early Intermediate Drum Exercises’. You need to follow the link and then click the ‘Preview’ link to get the free 5 page pdf of early intermediate drum exercises. This includes snare drum and practice pad exercises, subdivision exercises, co ordination exercises and drum beats to work on for grade 3-5 level drummers. There are some useful exercises such as moving from hi hat based drum beats to ride cymbal beats with stepped hi hats. There are also rudimental exercises, blues, funk, reggae and jazz styles, and 16th note hi hat beats.

Download the PDF by visiting the book’s page and clicking ‘Preview’

50 Beginners Drum Beats

This collection of 50 beginners drum beats features in my ebook Beginners Drum Book 2023. I am planning to update this book at some point so the 50 beats may change or become more than 50, but if I do create a newer version, the 2023 version will still be included as a pdf ebook. We start off fairly easy and by beat 21 the beats do get quite hard, learning Jazz beats with 4 way co-ordination. This selection of 50 beats can be learned as one topic, or it can be something to dip in and out of. Here are all of the sheets with all 50 beats, but if you would like the printable pdf, then you will need to purchase that here.

 

drum notation containing beginners drum beats
Drum Beat Exercises 11-22

drum notation containing beginners drum beats
Drum Beat Exercises 23-30

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Drum Beat Exercises 31-41

drum notation containing beginners drum beats
Drum Beat Exercises 42-50

 

 

Intermediate Drum Beats Fills and Exercises

I’m currently working on a new intermediate drum ebook for release in Feb/March 2024. I’ve posted quite a few worksheets on pinterest, which can be viewed on the TL Music Lessons Pinterest.

For a limited time (Up to the end of Feb 2024), learndrumsforfree.com readers can pre order the ebook for free using the following code: FEB24

Whilst we’re giving away free content, this code will probably last for a lot longer, until 100 downloads have been reached, and then the code will no longer work. Use the code NOTEBOOK2022 to download the drum exercises pdf booklet for free until the 100 downloads limit is reached.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginners Drum Book 2023

The new beginners drum book is out now! https://payhip.com/b/Rq2i9

You can view lots of the book’s content for free here on recent posts: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/tlmusiclessons/

 

  • 35 pages in the drum book and 15 pages in the song suggestions booklet
  • PDF format with standard drum notation
  • Ability levels covers content from beginners up to an early intermediate stage (From Grade 1 to 3 or 4).

 

Introduction to Beginners Drum Book 2023

I have decided to include the year in the title because I have resigned myself to the fact that you can’t make a perfect drum book for beginners (to suit everyone at different ages, abilities and styles) and I’m probably going to have another go at a later date that has a lot of new content (not just a few tweaks). Maybe I could if I had some extended time to myself to work on it properly, but I’m quite busy with teaching and life, so I am going to go ahead and release this at 80% quality rather than never release it at all. I also think that when you are teaching as a career or for a length of time, you tend to crave something new to teach or work on after a while, so this is why I’ve made this book, for me and for other teachers. I’m hoping some people can use this book to teach themselves too, so I will make it as accessible as possible for this purpose, but some things may need to be researched as I don’t want to include loads of text in the book and bloat it out too much. I’m going to include all of the necessary notation that a teacher can use in the lessons and where I feel it necessary and helpful to many, I will make notes on stickings or hints and tips.

When I set up the book as a pre order with draft content included I had some really great suggestions and requests when I asked what people would like to see in the final book. Thanks so much to those people and I hope you like the additions I’ve made. For example I had quite a few requests for Latin style drumming, which I’ve tried to include but I need to learn more of this myself too in the future. Lots of people said they use my books for teaching so it was a good feeling to think of all the students that might be working on my content, and that also gave me a bit of responsibility when writing this book too. I also got requests for including song content, so I have spent time compiling a list of songs for you to learn and also included blank sheets for a teacher to write down parts from the songs to learn, or try to make notes yourself if you are working alone. You can find the playlist on Spotify called Beginners Drum Book 2023.