6 Skip Beat Drum Grooves With 8th Note Hi Hats

6 Skip Beat Drum Grooves With 8th Note Hi Hats

If you are new to these kind of drum beats, check out some of the easier looking sheets on the skip beats page. This is a great drum sheet for drum students that enjoy playing basic bass drum and snare drum skip beats and want to progress with them further. These drum...
Learn to play the basic foundation Jazz drum groove

Learn to play the basic foundation Jazz drum groove

We are going to concentrate on the fundamental parts of playing Jazz drum beats. We are only going to concentrate on the right hand, and the left foot. Step 1 – Right hand With your right hand, play the ride cymbal 4 times. If this is too easy you can skip this...
Developing rock grooves with quarter note hi hats – Grade 2-3

Developing rock grooves with quarter note hi hats – Grade 2-3

I wrote this sheet initially to give students an idea of the type of things they could do to start off developing the drum beat for the guitar solo in a Grade 3 Rockschool song called Overrated (2012-18 syllabus). This sheet is also good for learning to develop the...
How to stop drum mutes and drum silencer pads from falling off

How to stop drum mutes and drum silencer pads from falling off

I teach drums quite a lot in different schools, and one thing that has been neccesary is drum mutes to go on the drums to reduce the volume of the kit. One problem that has occurred is sometimes the pads fall off the toms or snare when playing. To solve this problem,...
10 beats and fills exercises – Grade 1-2

10 beats and fills exercises – Grade 1-2

10 drum exercises, each consisting of a 1 bar drum beat followed by a 1 bar drum fill. Play each line at least twice. Ideally, play each line 4 or more times to really work on them, and revisit the sheet several times.
7 drum beats for keeping light time

7 drum beats for keeping light time

Recently I played drums in a musical at my local Theatre. I hadn’t really done this kind of work before, apart from once a long time ago. I encountered quite a few sheet music directions that I was not used to – and a few that I had never heard of. One of...