8 Technique Exercises for Accents and Ghost Notes

8 Technique Exercises for Accents and Ghost Notes

These snare drum or practice pad exercises are similar to drum rudiments. The drum exercises work on possible sticking and dynamic eventualities that you may encounter in drum beats and grooves, drum fills, and snare drum sheet music. The exercises also could be used...
10 Bar Snare Drum Piece with Dynamics – Beginners Grade 1-2

10 Bar Snare Drum Piece with Dynamics – Beginners Grade 1-2

There is a free PDF download with this post, which you may use to print out the sheet music. Instructions The first line contains a mixture of 16th notes, 8th notes, and quarter notes, and the dynamic is p, which means quiet. On the second line, there is a long...
16 bar Snare Drum Exercise – with dynamics – Grade 1-2

16 bar Snare Drum Exercise – with dynamics – Grade 1-2

This is a short snare drum piece lasting 16 bars consisting of grade 1 and grade 2 level snare drum rhythms. The snare drum sheet music focuses on using plenty of dynamics, which are for volume changes in the music. The dynamics include: p (piano = soft/quiet) mf...
Accent Techniques – Down, Tap, Up, Full Strokes

Accent Techniques – Down, Tap, Up, Full Strokes

When you play accents, you should ideally use 3 different stick strokes. These are tap stroke, up stroke, and down stroke. Tap Stroke You would play a tap stroke if you have just played a quiet note with that hand, and the next note with that hand is another...
16th Note Hi Hat Grooves With Accents

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...
Drum Solo Exercises Using Six Stroke Roll With RLLRRL Sticking

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...