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...
10 Beginners 1 Bar Drum Beats With 1 Bar Drum Fills

10 Beginners 1 Bar Drum Beats With 1 Bar Drum Fills

These exercises are great for putting together drum beats and drum fills, like they might appear in a song, although usually there are more drum beats than fills in a song. These exercises have a 1 bar drum beat and 1 bar of a fill, so that each type is practiced...
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...