A variety of 6 different musical styles in the form of drum beats. Objective: To develop an awereness of different styles of music and to be able to play the basic drum beats. With this sheet, although there are no repeats, you should repeat each line multiple times...
The structure for these drum exercises is: One and a half bar of a drum beat, then half a bar drum fill – and repeat. These drum exercises are for practicing drum beats and fills, similar to what you would do in a song environment, by playing the drum fills...
Sometimes in drum sheet music you will see parts of the music that aren’t written. There may be a space in he music, with an instruction such as ‘develop’, ‘ad lib’, ‘cont. sim’ or ‘fill’. In these examples, there...
Objective: To develop a vocabulary of various bass drum and snare variations that are usable when playing in the 6/8 time signature. Variations: The right hand could be moved to the floor tom or ride, and accents / ride bell / open hi hats could be added About the...
I wrote this sheet initially to give students an idea of the type of things they could do to start off developing the drum beat for the guitar solo in a Grade 3 Rockschool song called Overrated (2012-18 syllabus). This sheet is also good for learning to develop the...
Here are 5 beginners drum beats in the styles of Dance Music / Pop, Reggae, Hip Hop, Blues, and Metal / Hard Rock. There are also audio examples to help you with the rhythms. Audio Examples of each drum beat:
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...
We are going to learn a basic drum beat. It’s one that you will have heard before. I’m going to break it down into one thing at a time, or two things, and show you how it’s constructed. It’s a great way for beginners to learn how to play it,...
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...
