10 drum exercises, each consisting of a 1 bar drum beat followed by a 1 bar drum fill. Play each line at least twice. Ideally, play each line 4 or more times to really work on them, and revisit the sheet several times.
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...
A simple shuffled drum groove with a triplet based drum fill on bar 12. Shuffle is another word for Swing. This can be played at various tempos and is something you could play or improvise around at a blues jam night.
The open hi hats can be seen in the sheet music where the hi hat has a circle around it. All the beats have open hi hats on the “and” of the beat (i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +). These beats are a good introduction to playing open hi hats in general, and...
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...
A bass drum skip beat is where the bass drum is played in between the high hats. The skip beats create syncopation, and is often used in funk drumming. This sheet has a useful selection of different bass drum skip beat combinations. You could either treat the sheet as...
