10 beginners drum beats with 2 beat drum fills exercises

May 7, 2015 | Drums

The structure for these drum exercises is: One and a half bar of a drum beat, then half a bar drum fill – and repeat. These drum exercises are for practicing drum beats and fills, similar to what you would do in a song environment, by playing the drum fills...

1 Beat Snare Drum Fills with drum beats exercises

May 6, 2015 | Drums

Sometimes in drum sheet music you will see parts of the music that aren’t written. There may be a space in he music, with an instruction such as ‘develop’, ‘ad lib’, ‘cont. sim’ or ‘fill’. In these examples, there...

10 Drum Beats in a 6/8 Time Signature

Apr 25, 2015 | Drums

Objective: To develop a vocabulary of various bass drum and snare variations that are usable when playing in the 6/8 time signature. Variations: The right hand could be moved to the floor tom or ride, and accents / ride bell / open hi hats could be added About the...

8 advanced warm up exercises for drums with patterns and subdivisions

Apr 17, 2015 | Drums

The exercises on the drum notation are for grade 5-8 players. By reading the list of exercise below, you can begin to see clearly how easy they are. This exercise sheet can be used as a continuous warm up exercise. The ability level would be measured on timing and...

8 Basic Drum Beats for Beginners

Apr 7, 2015 | Drums

All of these drum beats have featured in hit songs over the years, and they probably have all featured in rock and pop music in every single decade since the styles started. Drum Teachers can print this out for their new beginner students – it’s a good way...

6 Skip Beat Drum Grooves With 8th Note Hi Hats

Apr 4, 2015 | Drums

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

Apr 2, 2015 | Drums

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...

10 Bar Snare Drum Piece with Dynamics – Beginners Grade 1-2

Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorised

There is a free PDF download with this post, which you may use to print out the sheet music. Instructions The first line contains a mixture of 16th notes, 8th notes, and quarter notes, and the dynamic is p, which means quiet. On the second line, there is a long...

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

Mar 25, 2015 | Drums

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...

16 bar Snare Drum Exercise – with dynamics – Grade 1-2

Mar 18, 2015 | Uncategorised

This is a short snare drum piece lasting 16 bars consisting of grade 1 and grade 2 level snare drum rhythms. The snare drum sheet music focuses on using plenty of dynamics, which are for volume changes in the music. The dynamics include: p (piano = soft/quiet) mf...