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6 Essential Drum Exercises – Essential Beginners – Sheet 1 – Drum Workout

Mar 12, 2015 | Drums

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...

16 bar snare drum piece – Grade 1-2 Snare Drum Exercise – Snare Drum Sheet Music

Feb 24, 2015 | Uncategorised

This free 16 bar snare drum piece is for grade 1-2 drums. In the rhythm, there is a mixture of quarter notes, 8th notes, 16th notes, 8th note rests and quarter note rests. For the dynamics, it could be played any volume, but i would recommend mp to mf, leaving plenty...

How to stop drum mutes and drum silencer pads from falling off

Feb 10, 2015 | Drums

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,...

5 Beginners Drum Beats in different styles of music

Jan 22, 2015 | Drums

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 beats and fills exercises – Grade 1-2

Jan 3, 2015 | Drums

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.

8 rock or funk drum beats with 16th Note Accents for grade 5 and up

Dec 30, 2014 | Drums

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....

7 drum beats for keeping light time

Nov 30, 2014 | Drums

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...