Intermediate Drum Warm-Up – Part 1
Following on from the Drum Lesson Warm Up posted a few days ago, this intermediate drum warm-up is for drummers that have reached a higher level of ability (about Grade 4-6 but could be used by higher grades too). PDF Download This download actually includes Part 1...
Drum Lesson Warm Up
5 warm up exercises for the start of a drum lesson. Sticking patterns, drum beats, drum fills and beats with 4 way co-ordination. These exercises that would be a good warm up at the start of a drum lesson or at the start of a drum practice session. Anyone from Grade 1...
Reading and Playing Buzz Rolls and Double Strokes
Some snare drum sheet music writes out buzz rolls with a Z through the stem. I don’t write it like that because my software doesn’t have that feature, but many others write it my way too anyway so I’ve got used to writing using 3 slashes instead (3...
2 Snare Drum Sticking Exercise Sheets
The first exercise sheet was written to help my drum students build up their coordination and sticking techniques for the snare drum. The second exercise sheet was transcribed directly from this excellent Hit Like A Girl 2017 entry video by Jenn Proos. The entire...
Funk Grooves – Grade 5
You’ll need to be able to read the sheet music to play these funk drum grooves. These funky beats are versatile and can be played in various scenarios or even different styles of music. Use these funk drum beats for some new inspiration or ideas for adding flare...
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),...
Creative Exercises for Paradiddile-diddle in sextuplet sixteenth notes
Here are some creative examples of how you can expand on the ‘Paradiddile-diddle in sextuplet sixteenth notes’ exercise 1 from Grade 7 technical exercises. There are accents (>) underneath each line of rhythms to watch out for. There are also ghost...