


Snare Drum Piece with Basic Rhythms for Grade 1 Sight Reading
After having a try at the sheet slowly, try playing this snare drum piece with a metronome (play it slowly at first). Focus on getting the 2 beat notes in time with the click. Also work hard on the rests, in particular the half beat rests. Related (Premium): 10 Snare...
Two Bar Metal Grooves – Sheet 2
These are metal grooves that use the double pedal in an interesting way. This sheet is ideal for a drummer that has been learning the double bass drum for a while, and has some reading knowledge. Hopefully this will give some people a few new ideas for creating their...
9 Drum Fills Lasting 1 Bar Each – Grade 1
Here are some practice drum fills. Repeat each one until the drum fill flows nicely. You could also try playing 1, 3, 7 or 15 bars worth of drum beats leading up to playing each drum fill. This would replicate playing them in a song.
7 Drum & Bass Drum Beats
Repeat each line multiple times. You will need to be grade 5-6 level for this sheet. There is a lot of syncopation. Drum & Bass is generally fast paced, so start off slow and get the beats right first and then gradually up the speed until they are sounding fast....
Drum Solo Exercises Using Six Stroke Roll With RLLRRL Sticking
This is an exercise that can be used in your practice schedule, and can be used as drum fills in your playing. This 6 Stroke Roll rudiment (played on the snare drum) is part of the technical exercises in Rockschool Grade 7 (Alternative paradiddle-diddle in sextuplet...
7 Short Drum Fills
These drum beats and drum fills exercises are for drummers that have learned how to play basic beats and fills already. A strong foundation in Snare Drum Sheet Music would be extremely useful here due to the style of the drum fills being based on snare drum rhythms....
6/8 time signature grooves and fills
A 6/8 time signature is the same as a fraction. In music it means that there are 6 eigth notes in each bar. Normally in a bar of 4/4, we have 8 eigth notes in the bar. Just like in fractions, 4/4 = 8/8). In this 6/8 time signature, the emphasis is on beat 1 and...
Improvisation Test examples and ideas for Rockschool Grade 2 Drums exam
Unofficial rockschool preperation ideas for improvisation part of the Grade 2 drum exam. Students should improvise (make up your own on the spot), but if you are stuck knowing what to do for bars 2-4 on the improvisation practice before the exam, then these should...