Easy beginners snare drum piece – sight reading exercise with crotchets and quavers
There are just two note grouping patterns (if you can count the 1st one), and the whole snare drum piece uses various combinations of these. Most beginners pick this up quite quickly, and it’s a great way for them to understand the ‘twice as fast’...
12 Bar Blues Shuffle – Easy
A simple shuffled drum groove with a triplet based drum fill on bar 12. Shuffle is another word for Swing. This can be played at various tempos and is something you could play or improvise around at a blues jam night.
Drums Warm Up Exercise with 4 way co-ordination
The feet are walking, right, left, right, left, on the bass drum and stepped hi hat all the way though, until the last line, where it’s left foot hi hat on every beat. Follow the sticking (R L R L) for the hands on the snare drum. Either play as seperate...
Off Beat Open Hi Hat Grooves
The open hi hats can be seen in the sheet music where the hi hat has a circle around it. All the beats have open hi hats on the “and” of the beat (i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +). These beats are a good introduction to playing open hi hats in general, and...
Samba Funk Drum Grooves – Grade 8
This drum grooves sheet is good for learning to improvise in a samba funk style. It was initially written for a drum lesson as a rough guide to the kind of things that could be improvised with during a Grade 8 Rockschool song from the 2006-2012 syllabus (Sampa Samba),...
16th note hi hat drum beat exercises
Right handers should play ‘Right Left Right Left’ in a continuous pattern with the hands. Bring your left arm over to the left so both hands can play on the hi hat comfortably and without crossing the arms. The right hand would play the snare drum. Left...
Bass Drum Skip Beats
A bass drum skip beat is where the bass drum is played in between the high hats. The skip beats create syncopation, and is often used in funk drumming. This sheet has a useful selection of different bass drum skip beat combinations. You could either treat the sheet as...
Snare Drum Skip Beats
Skip beats are intermediate and above drum beats where the snare drum skips in between a regular 8th note hi hat ostinato. The word syncopation is often used to describe the sound these kind of drum beats. Skip beats can be heard in many styles of music, including...