Beginners Drum fills lasting for 2 beats – Half bar drum fills

Beginners Drum fills lasting for 2 beats – Half bar drum fills

The drum fills last for 2 beats, or half a bar of 4/4. They are all made up of combinations of 16th notes and 8th notes, and 1/4 note flams. There are 12 drum fills. The drum fills could be used in the final bar of a section. For example, play 7 and a half bars of...
10 beginners drum beats with 2 beat drum fills exercises

10 beginners drum beats with 2 beat drum fills exercises

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...
1 Beat Snare Drum Fills with drum beats exercises

1 Beat Snare Drum Fills with drum beats exercises

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...
Subdivision exercise with linear drum fills

Subdivision exercise with linear drum fills

At grade 5-6 you should have good knowledge of triplets, 16th notes and sextuplets, and you will need to be able to switch seamlessly between them. This exercise works on changing between triplets, 16th notes, and sextuplets like usual subdivision exercises, but with...
10 Drum Fills lasting 1 bar – Grade 1

10 Drum Fills lasting 1 bar – Grade 1

Start going through the sheet slowly, and work up to being able to practice this sheet all the way through as one exercise. You might want to brush up the Reading Drum Notation sheet to help with reading this sheet. Related: 10 Beginners drum fills lasting 1 bar...
10 Beginners drum fills lasting 1 bar

10 Beginners drum fills lasting 1 bar

Play Right hand on all crotchets (1/4 notes), and Right Left on all of the Quavers (8th Notes) – (opposite for left handers). Young beginners players could count the crotchets as Tea, and the quavers as “Cof-fee”. You might want to brush up the...
10 Short Drum Fills Lasting 2 Beats Each

10 Short Drum Fills Lasting 2 Beats Each

Slowly play the Snare twice then Tom 1 twice. Snare, High Tom, Floor Tom. To play this fill, you have to do a flam on the snare drum and then a flam on tom 1 for 1 beat each. To play this drum fill, play a flam on Tom 1 then a flam on the floor tom, lasting for 1 beat...
10 Maths Drum Fills – Number Combinations adding up to 16

10 Maths Drum Fills – Number Combinations adding up to 16

Each line is 1 drum fill, consisting of 16 x 16th notes. What we are doing with this sheet is diving that total number of 16 into various number combinations for different drums. Whilst all music could be related to maths, this exercise is a blatant use of numbers to...