1 bar drum beats in 4 with open hi hats
There are 16 different drum beats in 4/4, each with open hi hats placed within the beats. The open hi hats are marked with a circle around the X note head. These drum beats have been written for beginners between grade 1 and grade 2. In this series of 5 free PDF drum...
Grades 1-2 Beats & Fills Drum Book – Rock Pop Soul Funk – PDF ebook
Buy Now → all 3 ebook versions included in the download: Number of Pages in standard ebook: 48 Number of Pages in fast track book: 28 Number of Pages in super fast track book: 17 About the fast track books: 28 page PDF Fast Track Version is with section 1 and section...
Snare Drum Sheet Music focusing on 8th note (quaver) rests
This snare drum piece focuses on using 8th note rests before playing an 8th note, so that the snare drum plays on the off beat. The off beats are combined with various rhythms that you would also find up to grade 2 level, consisting of 16th note, quarter note and 8th...
Sheet 2 – Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1
Welcome to the second in the series of ‘Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1’. You may like to listen to the audio to help understand the sheet music. There are short repeated exercises in the following categories, which are ideal for practicing on...
Sheet 1 – Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1
Welcome to the first in the series of ‘Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1’. There are short repeated exercises in the following categories, which are ideal for practicing on your own, or for using by drum teachers as part of a lesson plan. You...
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)...
Beginners snare skip beats
Here we have 7 basic pop/rock drum beats with an added ‘skip beat’ snare hit, which slots in between the 8th note hi hats. It’s in the same place on each drum beat. It’s on the ‘a’ of counting “2 + a”. The counting would...
Snare drum sheet music based around single stroke fours and sextuplets
This snare drum sheet is ideal for practicing the single stroke four drum rudiment and also for playing sextuplet rhythms within a piece. The piece could be played by a group of snare drums or other drums if the players are at an intermediate level of above (at least...