We are going to learn a basic drum beat. It’s one that you will have heard before. I’m going to break it down into one thing at a time, or two things, and show you how it’s constructed. It’s a great way for beginners to learn how to play it,...
When you play accents, you should ideally use 3 different stick strokes. These are tap stroke, up stroke, and down stroke. Tap Stroke You would play a tap stroke if you have just played a quiet note with that hand, and the next note with that hand is another...
Having visited various rehearsal studios around the UK, I have seen this happen so many times. I believe that it is a common thought to skimp on buying a bass drum impact pad, and choose gaffa tape instead. Please don’t do this!! The idea of the pads is to...
Here we have very basic snare and bass drum grooves, with challenging accented 16th note hi hat accent rhythms. The Hi Hats should be played with 2 hands, with the leading hand moving over to the snare drum on beats 2 and 4. Tip: You could play the accents on the Hi...
At grade 5-6 you should have good knowledge of triplets, 16th notes and sextuplets, and you will need to be able to switch seamlessly between them. This exercise works on changing between triplets, 16th notes, and sextuplets like usual subdivision exercises, but with...
Buy Now → 10 pages of 16th note accent exercises, which includes accents and doubles around the kit. This ebook is designed to help progress technique and explore creative concepts by moving sticking exercises around the kit in various different ways. Most exercises...
Start going through the sheet slowly, and work up to being able to practice this sheet all the way through as one exercise. You might want to brush up the Reading Drum Notation sheet to help with reading this sheet. Related: 10 Beginners drum fills lasting 1 bar...
Play Right hand on all crotchets (1/4 notes), and Right Left on all of the Quavers (8th Notes) – (opposite for left handers). Young beginners players could count the crotchets as Tea, and the quavers as “Cof-fee”. You might want to brush up the...
Slowly play the Snare twice then Tom 1 twice. Snare, High Tom, Floor Tom. To play this fill, you have to do a flam on the snare drum and then a flam on tom 1 for 1 beat each. To play this drum fill, play a flam on Tom 1 then a flam on the floor tom, lasting for 1 beat...
A simple shuffled drum groove with a triplet based drum fill on bar 12. Shuffle is another word for Swing. This can be played at various tempos and is something you could play or improvise around at a blues jam night.
