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...
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...
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...
These 6 essential drum exercises have been designed to be played by drummers that have already covered these things, possibly separately in their lessons. They are to be played as quick exercises, to build up confidence. Players should feel good about playing these...
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,...
Here are 5 beginners drum beats in the styles of Dance Music / Pop, Reggae, Hip Hop, Blues, and Metal / Hard Rock. There are also audio examples to help you with the rhythms. Audio Examples of each drum beat:
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.
These 8 drum beats will test your ability to add accented notes to the two handed hi hat pattern, whilst also negotiating tricky bass drum rhythms and open hi hat combinations. Start off slowly and build it up when you are comfortable with the grooves at low speed....
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...
In this lesson we are going to breakdown the construction of a basic 16th note drum groove, which uses two hands on the high hat. The following audio examples are 1 per line of music. Related: Construction Of A Basic Drum Beat In 7...