I saw Gabrielle Aplin live at The Ritz in Manchester on her debut album tour in 2013, so although I don’t watch many music videos, this was on my radar and the images of all the drummers lured me in. Gabrielle Aplin has released this music video ahead of her...
Video Lesson In this lesson we will run through 10 popular rock drum beats. I will show you how to do variations on each beat, which will extend the contents of the sheet a lot, and give you ideas for practicing. I will also show you how they sound at slow, medium and...
These double bass drum grooves can be played by advanced beginners, intermediate players, and above. Double kick beginners should try this very slowly to start with. These grooves can be played in professional songs, they are mostly generic metal grooves and widely...
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...
We are going to concentrate on the fundamental parts of playing Jazz drum beats. We are only going to concentrate on the right hand, and the left foot. Step 1 – Right hand With your right hand, play the ride cymbal 4 times. If this is too easy you can skip this...
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...
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....
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...
