16th Note Hi Hat Grooves With Accents
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...
How To Tune Drums – Exam Question
When tuning your drum skins you need to make sure to tighten the tuning pegs evenly (1/4 of a turn each time). In addition, make sure to tune the pegs in the correct order (see picture below) so that the tightening pressure on the drum head is distributed evenly. The...
Snare Drum Subdivisions Exercise – 8ths, Triplets & 16th Notes
8th note Subdivisions You need to play 2 snare drums per beat. Put a metronome on a slow tempo (60-80) and try to play the right hand on every click. Then with your left hand, try to add a beat in between the right hands. When you do that you will be playing 2 snares...
Learning How To Read and Play Subdivisions
Put the metronome on at 60pm and try to play this sheet. Line 1 will be 1 note per click. Line 2 will be 2 hits per click (stricking R L R L). Line 3 will be 4 notes per click (again, R L R L sticking). Line 4 and 5 are duplicates of line 1 and 2, so follow the...
Subdivision exercise with linear drum fills
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...
(Premium) – 10 Pages of Accent Exercises with 16th notes – PDF ebook
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...
10 Drum Fills lasting 1 bar – Grade 1
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...
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...