10 tips and advice for running your own drum teaching business

10 tips and advice for running your own drum teaching business

Photo Credit: Image by rawpixel.com Whether you are thinking of starting your own music leaching business, or looking for ways to improve the management of your self employed music lessons business, these 10 tips have been written with you in mind. All of these bits...
Group snare drum piece with 3 difficulty levels (Piece 5, Book 1)

Group snare drum piece with 3 difficulty levels (Piece 5, Book 1)

This snare drum piece could be played by a single drummer, or as part of a group of drummers. The snare drum piece is an example of a short piece with two snare drum parts of different ability levels. There are 2 difficulty levels; beginners up to grade 1, and grade 2...
8 Starter Jazz Drum Beats with 3 way co-ordination

8 Starter Jazz Drum Beats with 3 way co-ordination

Jazz music can be very difficult. Even these starter beats for Jazz drumming are a challenge, and beginners will probably need a teacher’s help to play these. The left foot is usually used in Jazz. To keep things simple we are just doing 3 way co-ordination in...
How to get good sounds from your cymbals when playing the drums

How to get good sounds from your cymbals when playing the drums

Photo Credit: Owen Byrne Hi Hats Beginners often play the hi hat too loud, and sometimes this is down to where they are hitting on the hi hat cymbals rather than how hard they are hitting. As a result, their playing sounds messy, and their sticks wear more quickly. If...
8 Technique Exercises for Accents and Ghost Notes

8 Technique Exercises for Accents and Ghost Notes

These snare drum or practice pad exercises are similar to drum rudiments. The drum exercises work on possible sticking and dynamic eventualities that you may encounter in drum beats and grooves, drum fills, and snare drum sheet music. The exercises also could be used...
10 Basic Rock Drum Beats

10 Basic Rock Drum Beats

Video Lesson In this lesson we will run through 10 popular rock drum beats. I will show you how to do variations on each beat, which will extend the contents of the sheet a lot, and give you ideas for practicing. I will also show you how they sound at slow, medium and...