10 Reggae Drum Beats for Beginners

10 Reggae Drum Beats for Beginners

These drum beats are for any ability, even complete beginner. I would however recommend learning pop and rock first. For example: 10 Basic Rock Drum Beats. Reggae beats often have an emphasis on beat 3 of the bar. Usually this is from the bass drum or bass drum and...
Sheet 2 – Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1

Sheet 2 – Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1

Welcome to the second in the series of ‘Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1’. You may like to listen to the audio to help understand the sheet music. There are short repeated exercises in the following categories, which are ideal for practicing on...
Sheet 1 – Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1

Sheet 1 – Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1

Welcome to the first in the series of ‘Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1’. There are short repeated exercises in the following categories, which are ideal for practicing on your own, or for using by drum teachers as part of a lesson plan. You...
7 Jazz Drum Patterns with 3 and 4 way co-ordination sheets

7 Jazz Drum Patterns with 3 and 4 way co-ordination sheets

These jazz drum patterns are for at least grade 3 level. The 3 way co-ordination exercises could also be tried slowly by Grade 1-2. Drummers that are new to jazz could start with these even if they are a pro in other genres. These patterns will be hard if you are new...
8 Starter Jazz Drum Beats with 3 way co-ordination

8 Starter Jazz Drum Beats with 3 way co-ordination

Jazz music can be very difficult. Even these starter beats for Jazz drumming are a challenge, and beginners will probably need a teacher’s help to play these. The left foot is usually used in Jazz. To keep things simple we are just doing 3 way co-ordination in...
Drums Warm Up Exercise with 4 way co-ordination

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...
10 Jazz Ride Patterns

10 Jazz Ride Patterns

Before attempting these you will need to have a solid ability in the basic foundation Jazz drum groove, which involves the left foot hi hat on 2 and 4, and the right hand on 1 2 3 4. This sheet explores variations in the right hand ride cymbal over a constant 2 and 4...