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....
In this lesson we are going to breakdown the construction of a basic 16th note drum groove, which uses two hands on the high hat. The following audio examples are 1 per line of music. Related: Construction Of A Basic Drum Beat In 7...
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...
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),...
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...
